easy subscribe links - like, click on it and then subscribe, not the current method (which totally functions but its cumbersome and unwieldly).
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Custom CSS themes, for the main interface, but also maybe on a per-community basis? I liked most of what I'd see on Reddit.
When people link other instances in posts or comments, it should automatically be translated to view it on your own instance instead of having to take it and search for it.
I like this one. Posted instance mentions were doing my head in as a newbie.
User flairs!
There is an open issue already for some time. Hopefully with the new user influx this gets more attention. Certain communities, like sports, feel incomplete without flairs.
Karma
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Iβm actually curious the reason why Lemmy does not have a karma equivalent.
I donβt miss it since I rarely checked my reddit karma but it does have pros and cons.
Karma might work on a per instance basis, but if implemented on a federation wide scale you'd have to trust every instance. It would be far too easy to artificially increase your karma with your own rogue instance just by editing the database.
I think it's mainly to discourage reposting for the sake of reposting. On top of that, lemmy doesn't go out of it's way to improve user retention, which I believe karma and the incessant notifications about your comments being upvoted, were about.
Edit: added some stuff
More for jerboa, but RIF had an option to confirm you want to go back/refresh feed. My palm accidentally hits the back button often, and I have to start scrolling back from the top.
an ability to re-order search results, eg in the communities list page having it so that we can click on a column and have the results sort according to that column, or alphabetically or most recent.
and some way of filtering the results would be good as well
Highlight new comments (if there's already a way to do this please let me know as I'm brand new here)
a way to make the screen take the full space without whitespace, like old.reddit, in the settings
Jerboa could use a hide post option from RedReader.
More of an app than a platform feature, but the ability to collapse all child comments.
On Jerboa at least you can do this by tapping on the comment
Default to showing subscribed communities, rather than local ones. De-emphasise the server in certain areas (eg community list) - I think the community is more important than the server itβs on and having it there so prominently causes confusion about itβs importance.
I can see why it has the server focus but Iβd argue most people want to join a general server with a wide reach rather than something isolated.
Though this is me trying to use Lemmy as βdistributed Redditβ so maybe I just donβt get it.
The ability to merge/join communities across instances. Right now, there's lots of duplicated communities - which isn't a big problem, but I feel that it'll hinder adoption as it fragments the audience for a given topic.
Edit: also worth saying that it seems like that the if the instance hosting a community goes away, so does the community.
When i scroll on the website, the website header does not follow. Meaning if I want to go somewhere or refresh the feed, i have to scroll way up to do so. Its a bit frustrating.
In the meantime you can use Stylus, there are styles already supporting this, basically it's just setting the navbar position to fixed.
Ways to group communities to browse at once rather than just local, all, and subscribed. A multi-Lemmy if you will.
Hopefully a multi-community (multi Reddit type) feature
My only issue is the search function to find and subscribe to communities, and links are opening up on browser and not jerboa.
Other than that I'm having a fantastic experience.
Copy all subscriptions from one account to another, adapting as necessary across servers.
the ability to create communities in other instances than the one that our accounts are in. i'd rather use a server in my local region than have to go to the other side of the planet where there's a populated server
Why not just make the community in your local instance?
that local instance is aussie.open for connection speed reasons, but it doesn't allow creation of communities. that means i'v had to make this accound as well in order to create the communities, but this instance is hellishly lagged for me and i get much faster speed from my regionally local instance
User and post flares!
user notes/tags editable anywhere the username shows, and shown next to the username thereafter.
Being able to see a list of all the communities of an instance, without having to actually go to that instance.
Then being able to add whichever community from there with a simple button click.
E.g. I'm on lemmy.one, I can go to lemmy.one/communities to see all the local communities. Now I'd like to go to lemmy.one/communities@lemmy.ml or similar, to see a complete list of lemm.ml's instances. Then, when I click "subscribe" next to e.g. "Comics" there, the community should be added to lemmy.one if it isn't already and subscribe me that way.
Also links to communities should automatically be changed to local links. lemmy.ml/c/Comics would become lemmy.one/c/Comics@lemmy.ml If it doesn't already exist on the local instance, clicking on it should not display a 404, but a message that it is being added and available soon.
It's a pain in the ass to go to each instance, copy the URL of each community and then pasting it to the search of my local one. Then wait for it to be indexed and finally being able to subscribe.
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