- Make remote community discovery more intuitive.
- Make remote community subscription more reliable.
- Make navigation & reading work without javascript.
- Make dark mode available when not logged in.
- Indicate which comments are new when returning to a recently-visited post. (old.reddit.com does this if you have premium.)
- Display user and community names with the domain part dimmed (and maybe on a separate line), for less visual clutter at a quick glance.
- Display user names without prepending an @ sign, for the same reason.
- Allow sorting community lists by name.
- Horizontally align all community names in lists, regardless of whether they have icons.
- Reduce wasted screen space.
- When reading a post/comment on any random instance (perhaps found via web search) make subscribing & finding that post on the user's home instance a one-click operation, so they can reply.
- Optionally hide avatars & community icons.
- Optionally (admin choice) mirror remote instances' images, so they can't be abused by remote parties to track local users.
- Optionally (user choice) disable or replace remote images, for the same reason.
- Stop auto-inserting new items into a list that's being viewed. (It causes what I'm reading to suddenly shift or disappear off-screen, which is disorienting.)
- Make buttons work reliably. (Clicking them sometimes applies a border without doing anything else.)
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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RES's ability to resize images/video by dragging is one I'm definitely missing right now.
Keyword filtering from RES.
Also, equivalent of setting up and saving multisubreddits, which helps for accessing communities that are the same but across different instances.
Just curious - what sort of keywords would you be filtering out if you could?
Very common one I did would be something I wanted to avoid spoilers for. So example would be blocking "House of the Dragon" and "Fire and Blood" so I didn't accidentally see any spoilers from random posts whether it be from before the episode aired, or from book readers who had read everything.
Particularly useful for anime where most stuff is based off the manga, which manga readers are sometimes really eager to give hints at. Like "oh don't be attached this character hehehe". "Oh you're in for a twist soon."
And of course game, I'm not going often getting games when everyone is talking about them the most. So I prefer to block out stuff so things can remain fresh when I get around to it.
Ooh, I definitely agree with multireddits. I definitely want to be able to look at certain communities on the same feed without subscribing to them by default
There is an open ticket or multigroups: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818, so you might want to give that a thumbs up to show interest.
Oh, I like it! A multi-subreddit should be a must-have for a federated community like Lemmy.
It would create a simple way to lump together all these Gaming group (from different servers) into a single view. Such a feature would improve visibility and also (hopefully) reduce the amount of noise/duplicate content (ie: one trailer being reposted to each Gaming channel/server)
For me it’s filtering out posts that I’ve already seen. Now I get the same posts over and over again.
Yes agree I so what this.
That's a user setting Show Read Posts
Yea, but I would like an option to also hide posts that I scrolled past.
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Jerboa needs a lot of work. Especially on the UI front.
Did you try it recently? I think it looks great now.
I'm using it right now, yes.
No just the default version. I think it's pretty great, just some things that I would change. But in general, the app really works.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy it exists. Lots of good in this app. There are some key features though that I miss. Specifically the RiF interface for subs search and joining and the sub-grouping feature.
Yup agree, some things can be improved and I'm very convinced it's being worked on. Many people are working together on the app right now to make it become stellar.
The thing i haven't worked out yet, is how to get it to open links to lemmy communities by default. For example if I click on a link from community promo it opens in Firefox focus rather than Jeroba. If I search for said community on Jeroba, it usually won't find it.
You can get it to open some links by going to app info, by holding the app on the homesceen. Then default links, you can toggle open support links and add the links available from there
thanks. It lists links to 8 instances. For some reason I couldn't add https://lemmy.world to it though.
I want to be able to collapse children comments from the parent.
If I'm not mistaken, you can do that by tapping and holding on the top of the parent comment.
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- Ability to tag certain communities without manually copying the link
- Create custom community collections (Technology collection, memes collection)
- View linked post/comment without changing instance (provided I'm subscribed to that community)
I miss Apollo :(
And RiF. The ability to search for subs and create topic groups, etc.
We have been spoiled by both! I use the Melm iPhone app which is still in beta, and there are a TON of features I want… which I realize was just Apollo! It stinks that the development of new features we enjoyed with Apollo is kind of back at square 1 with new apps.
I would try to find a solution for instance agostic links for posts or comments. afaik there is currently no way to do that.
And to add to this the universal links with a ! should automatically be fetched by your instance instead of going 404 if they haven’t been searched before.
I miss the information density of redreader. Everything just feels so spread out.
Yeah, I hope QuantumBadger goes through with making RedReader compatible with Lemmy
A way to jump to the next comment within a level. Infinity had a big button to jump to the next top level comment, and the reddit web page you can click on the colored bar that aligns the comment levels to jump to the next comment.
I honestly just miss Apollo, since the layout and customization was amazing. I'd also look forward to seeing Slide being ported / forked for the Fediverse, since it's free and open source.
Being able to customize swipe actions and quickly sort through content, as well as hiding content that I've already seen (so it doesn't show up in my feed every time I refresh), were my favorite features by far.
I think the lack of hiding of previously viewed posts is one of my biggest gripes. I used to use Hide a lot in Reddit but all the alternatives are missing it.
A few other issues I have:
- the need to click into threads to open a link is annoying
- the inability to open comments and links in separate tabs/windows
- lack of flair - /r/nfl flair were really nice, for example
Hiding viewed/voted posted is a setting "show read", un-check it.
Yeah, I think that a helps a bit but if it requires actually opening the thread, then it's only a mild improvement. I'd really prefer mark as read or hide without opening the thread (there's a lot of threads I have no interest in reading but are hanging around the front page).
I appreciate the suggestion though. It does help a little.
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So far everything is just a case of getting used to it for me. I'm using the Jerboa app, and the two biggest improvements I can see right now are 1) allowing me to change the default sort (top, new, active, etc.). I can change it every time I open the app, but I'd like to be able to set it and forget it and 2) I'm not a huge fan of pinned posts staying at the top of my feed no matter how I'm sorting it, although this would also be solved by hiding already read posts, I suppose.
Hamburger > Settings > [username] settings ...
- Default listing type
- Default sort type
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I already saw one user who posted great content including citations -- adding user tags is what I miss.
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Hide posts on scroll is a feature I would love to see.
I'm presently working on changing the url schema to more match reddit's,
Eg:
/post/{title}-{title_id}
/post/{title}-{title_id}/comments
Etc
It really needs an app and page with a decent and clean UI. (most important)
It also needs a more streamline way of finding communities.
It would be nice as well to have better feeds as well.
I'm on Beehaw with a couple of subscriptions to communities in other instances. I like viewing all of the local Beehaw communities as a "front page", but I'd like my other subscriptions to show up in that view without having to manually subscribe to all of the Beehaw communities.
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