While @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I do have a lot of issues that are going to take us a lot of time this upcoming year, its still useful for us to hear what your most desired features for Lemmy are, and prioritize them.
If they’re smaller, we could get to them fairly quickly, or others wanting to contribute could see whats most wanted.
Outside of just posting them here, make sure github issues exist for them (this is what we work from), and do a thumbs up react for all the ones you’d like. Despite being a popular project, we have very few people voting on these issues . We can then use the link above (issues sorted by most thumbs up ), to keep track.
Thanks all.
a small ux request – is there any way to make it so that notifications clear when I load the notifications page instead of persisting until i manually dismiss them? Like maybe this could be a setting?
No, but there is a big mark all as read button to dismiss them all.
The option to set a global default theme for the ui
Mirroring the UI layout for RTL languages
Do RTL languages even work properly in lemmy, is there an instance using a RTL language?
There are millions of RTL language users (arabic is very popular), some (almost all?) living in dictatorships and might appreciate having control of the data (They might fear big tech will collaborate with these governments and give them information about pro democracy activities).
Er not so sure what you’re talking about, but if you’re on the lemmy.ml website you can click “settings” and choose Arabic and Persian already.
have you tried writing a sentence in a RTL language?
I tried in mine, the dot at the end of the sentence is at the wrong side of the text ,it’s at the right side, it should be on the left. (atleast that’s what it shows in the preview, I prefer not to give extra information about myself like what kind of language i use).
I’d like to block/hide certain communities from the “all” view. That way I can browse posts that I’m not subscribed to, but skip stuff I know I’ll never care about.
There is an option in lemmur to block community that I assume is inherited from Lemmy. Just go to the menu on a post and select it.
We added this a few months ago. Go to your profile settings, and the blocks tab.
It would be nice if there was a button on the community profile to make this easier to discover and use.
There is one on all community pages.
I must be blind. I opened a random community and couldn’t find anything that looked like a block button. I also searched for “block” and didn’t get any hits. I can only find the UX in my profile.
I used https://lemmy.ml/c/ckstechnologynews as an example.
Sorry, I thought that was in response to your RSS comment. You can only block communities from your profile settings currently.
An option to block someone from commenting in your community to avoid trolling.
Entrance only if followed or based on specific levels…
- Needs x amount of months membership on Lemmy to comment.
- Needs x amount of comments or and post submissions.
This would also help fighting spam and trolls with alt-accounts to create an account, troll-up here, down-vote everything + shit-post. Since you could restrict voting as well with the idea.
We recently added private communities, and might eventually add some new user limitations… but I’m very wary of reputation or gamified based systems, or one that isn’t welcoming for new users. It’ll need lots of discussion before we add anything like that.
It would be nice if the RSS feeds were advertised. For example if I browse https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy I wouldn’t know there was an RSS feed until I find and click the little RSS icon.
If a
<link>to the RSS feed was provided my browser extension would light up and I can subscript just by putting the community URL into my reader instead of having to spot the RSS button on the page.The RSS feed is advertised, on that button. There is an
<a hrefto that RSS feed also, so I’m not sure why your browser extension wouldn’t pick it up.I’m talking about RSS auto-discovery via
<link>tags. In the head of the page there should be a link take like<link rel=alternate type="application/atom+xml" href="https://lemmy.ml/feeds/c/lemmy.xml?sort=Hot">. This way browsers, extensions, search engines and feed readers can discovery the link automatically without the user needing to identify the feed link on each site.Ah cool. Should be easy enough to add, open up an issue on lemmy-ui with this info.
I’ll make a issue later but front page sort options should be cached in local storage so that if I click comments on a thread and comeback I don’t have to reset my filters.
It’s not that big of a deal, but I’d love to see a redesign on the main page’s community related sidebars. Both of them feel really clunky the way they are now, having them come one after the other instead of in a vertical list, and with no way to order the ones you are subscribed into alphabetical order instead of popularity order.
The way Reddit does the trending communities in its redesign look pretty good, and the way old Reddit orders the subreddits you joined in the top bar is also nice, something at least inspired on that would be really good.
Also a redesign on the top bar (when the page is taking less than half of the screen) should be at least in the priority list, it’s the one aspect of the site that looks REALLY bad.
Include a Replies Collection via Page json, so that Mastodon & other #ActivityPub software can know about all the replies each Lemmy post has
Could you open up a github issue for this one.
user defined lists of communities for viewing as a feed
- Community specific flyers for accounts (for now we have only mod)
- Community specific flyers for posts determined by mods of community (like question , discussion, news etc)
The ability to tag posts (what are called “flairs” on reddit)
- open posts in new tab
- ability to make profile private
- allow posters to have some level of control over their posts - sticky a comment, set the sort etc.
open posts in new tab
Might be useful on mobile where anything but tapping is awkward. But personally I like that all links open in the same tab and I can middle click or ctrl-click to open in a new window. Makes everything consistent and gives the power to the user.
I kind of wish that when I respond to a comment in my inbox, that it doesn’t just disappear after I submit it. I usually want to click the context button after I respond. It’s just a little pet peeve and not really much of an issue, but I digress.
1/ endless scroll rather than next/next/next
2/ that default view for communities be “top - all times” instead of “top - day” which in most cases makes believe that communities are empty and inactive. maybe that setting can evolve when Lemmy/an instance becomes more popular, but right now it is shooting itself in the foot with that view…
Often endless scroll is evil. I hope Lemmy continues to support ethical design. https://uxdesign.cc/practicing-ethical-design-1b9dd29402d
meaning 2/ for the communities you are NOT subscribed to
