We’ve got a lot of Lemmy app options rolling out soon—it’s exciting!
What do you wish was better about the current way you browse Lemmy, and what features do you hope to have down the road?
Honestly I just love it and I hope it keeps growing
Sometimes using jerboa to open images doesn’t quite work the way you’d expect it to, and I know that’s not really Lemmy as such but it’s about the only negative I can think of
Massive effort on high quality i18n, l10n and a11y.
Improving just these will make Lemmy accessible to millions of more users and communities.
Apart from the ones already mentioned,
- being able to collapse all threads in a post to only show parent-level comments
- keyboard shortcuts ala RES (esp the J-K navigation)
- more themes (the default ones suck)
- more image improvements
For your 2nd point, I made a script. It works with arrows so you may or may not like it. Also I see a PR was opened yesterday on Lemmy-ui for J-K navigation
Something similar to what Infinity for shitdit had, we definitely need usability tweaks and better customization options, it would also be great to have different appearance settings per user and nsfw blur per user as well.
I’d love if there was a way to categorize saved posts for both account and local storage and the ability to choose to save posts to a local storage list.
For web: better theming, for app: i18n, for both: much smoother subscription to other instances.
wefwef.app is perfect and extremely smooth right now and can be installed locally as an app. It’s open-source, it has a GitHub repo for those who want to host their own or want to audit the code. Would be cool if it was available directly as an apk on Play Store, I believe it would be hugely beneficial for Lemmy if it became the “official” app!
I’d say other apps should try to take some hints from wefwef, it does all the things right, is inspired by Apollo and once you use it you won’t miss Reddit at all!
Swiping in order to upvote/downvotes/reply is an awesome feature that definitely stands out.
I’m not a fan of gestures for actions in general, I spend a lot of time trying to get them right or even worse, accidentally making them and doing something I didn’t want.
Being able to jump back a page without snapping to the top is the only issue I have with the PWA set up I’ve got. Otherwise it’s great as is.
Honestly, Memmy works pretty amazingly… I was surprised, because last time I tried it it was… empty. It’s REALLY good now.
I’m mostly waiting for marking posts as read as you scroll by and hiding read posts (but only in your feed). I think this is especially important with the federated content that might come in later than when I “scrolled past” the point in time it would appear in my feed.
“come in later”? You want a feed that live updates?
No.
But say, I’m currently looking at my Subscriptions sorted by New. I doomscroll until I see stuff that is 10 hours old. While I do that posts could come in that are 5 hours old. But the next time I doomscroll I wouldn’t go that far back because I think I’ve already seen stuff that old.
If what I have seen already was automatically marked as read and not showing for me, I would still see the 5 hours old stuff because that wouldn’t have been marked as read.
They probably mean that you can’t just scroll through and say “okay, I have seen everything created up to the point when I loaded this page” because some posts created earlier might only appear in your feed later.
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Subscribe to whole instances, not just individual communities, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
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Easily block communities from the ALL feed, without 3 or 4 clicks
For point two, Connect for Lemmy just added a block button from the three dot menu on the feed.
, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
How do you imagine that would work? Federation is what enables you to interact with anything on other instances in the first place.
Or do you just mean “add all communities on a remote instance to the list of communities you can search for locally at once”?
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Before I got thunder I used jerboa. It has a bug where when I backspaced it would squish the text together making me have to go and respace my text.
- Order comments by hot/new/votes
- make it really obvious how to sign-up and sign-in
- linking between feddit should not open an in-app browser
- highlight comments/posts your account has made
- allow us to block all NSFW posts from the all feed
- allow us to post GIFs from the Google keyboard
I’d like some tablet/large screen optimizations now that I have a Pixel Fold! Sync for Reddit and Infinity are example apps that do it right in my opinion
The ability to copy the URL of a video so I can paste it to NewPipe - or a setting where I can choose to use YouTube or NewPipe all red the time.
I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but the biggest feature for me would be an automatic redirect to your current instance if you click on a fedi link to another instance
It’s annoying when someone links a post from another instance, and I click the link but I can’t interact since I’m not logged in on that URL
Basically, if you’re on one instance and click on a link to a post from another instance, it should open that post on your current instance. The desktop version of Lemmy needs this too.
This is really my biggest point of contention with the fediverse atm. Needs to be easier to interact across instances without copying, pasting, editing, or typing in URLs
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A wishlist for two categories, in each sorted from very important to less important:
Technical:
- Open all links relative to my home instance (I want to stay logged in)
- Make community discovery easier and consistent. One method, which always works.
- Move account to another instance, complete with subscriptions and notifications when older comments receive replies
- Clarity: I’m often confused in which community a post lives, or where it originated. Or what a user’s home instance is. It is fine to display relative information (Post X from instance Y as seen from instance Z), if clearly less emphasized
- Indicate who can see a post or comment. From what instances is that content visible?
- Display the same community stats regardless from which subscribed instance they are viewed (subscriber count varies wildly)
View:
- Allow to hide selected posts
- Expand and collapse images in threads
- Lock my feed: Please don’t add posts to the top while I’m browsing the thumbnails at the bottom
- Display post/comment live preview below input field, so I can see the preview while editing. Currently I must switch view.
- Search within a community (without leaving the community page)
- Customize your feed: Control how much of each community is displayed (I want posts from some small communities to always show, and posts from others to only show rarely, or only those with votes/comments)
This was meant with the web/browser in mind. I expect apps and clients to work similarly, unless a characteristic necessitates exceptions (screen size, touch, …).
