In a recent discussion it was mentioned that the search function in Lemmy is awkward to use and could be improved. As a result I already made two small changes:
- Change community selector to use
!community@example.comformat (#3218) - Search field in community sidebar (#3217)
Are there any other UI or UX changes you can think of to improve searching in Lemmy? Im mainly looking for frontend changes, such as reorganizing the input positions, changing default values etc.
For post searches, could there be a [] Search Title Only? I have been reading a post and had my client crash and was unable to find the post again, despite recalling some or all of the title.
I also do a foreign word of the day and when I want to check if I am duplicating a post I have to skim through all of the posts that include that word.
Good point, this is one of those features which is already implemented in the backend but not added to lemmy-ui yet. Made a pull request for it.
Being able to search in a community is already a good improvement
add a big button that says “kill this redditor” you just press it and lemmy assassins kill the guy… Also add lemmy gold.
When resizing Lemmy in browser to half screen by dragging it to the side my top bar with communities and create post dissapears.
I’m not a UI or UX expert, but I wonder if it would make the search page nicer if instead of the search target (form select) would be tabs instead of a dropdown since it is distinct selection from the other filters in the search?
using bootstrap tabs (I didn’t put any effort into styling just added bootstrap tabs and removed the form select butto dropdown):
Edit: now that I think about it, the tab might be kinda confusing unless also the other dropdowns are slightly altered to give more context in the current form selection tab, e.g. (text changes):
But yeah I just wanted to throw out ideas, I’m not sure about them myself. The search inside a community is nice addition!
