I’m curious to hear if you have any thoughts or ideas about this. As a developer I understand very well how Lemmy works, and cant tell at all what might be difficult or confusing.
I’m curious to hear if you have any thoughts or ideas about this. As a developer I understand very well how Lemmy works, and cant tell at all what might be difficult or confusing.
I made a GitHub issue on this already, but being able to go to a community or user from a federated instance by typing in a plaintext URL, instead of going by community and user IDs, which change depending on the instance you’re viewing from, would be great. Something like
domain.tld/c/community@otherdomain.tldfor the community on that instance. I’ve definitely had the issue of taking a while to find the same post or community on another instance.This is one of those little UX changes that would go a long way in making Lemmy and the federation concept it’s built upon be easier to understand for every user.
This is doable, and I like it better than the current way.
It’s kind of weird that most federated platforms don’t have plaintext URLs for content originating from other instances.