How important are reddit-style flairs for people? There’s the raised issue https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/317 which has it listed as a far-future, with questions as far as how to handle federation.

Personally, having at least an initial implementation done on a community level would be largely sufficient, with expansion to instance-wide being optional. The situation I’ve found most useful, personally, is sports-related groups with your favored team being your flair. This gives context to comments without constantly having to say “as a X fan”

  • @fireshaper@lemmy.ml
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    910 months ago

    We used flairs on the Lockpicking sub as awards as people progressed through different levels of locksport. I’m dreading having to give thousands of those out again here if user flairs are a thing.

  • Baron Von J
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    910 months ago

    Per-community flair is nice in particular contexts. Like in a community focused on a specific league, a flair to show what team you support. But in a politics community I think flair for the party you support would end up really biasing the conversation.

  • @zettajon@lemmy.ml
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    810 months ago

    They can be very handy for context, or even fun. For example, I have my “Galaxy Note 20” flair on /r/Android so anyone seeing my comments can know I am speaking from a Samsung phone perspective without me having to state that each time. On /r/nba people have their preferred team set as flair so others can shittalk back to them based on what team they follow, which is a lot of the fun of /r/nba.

    There are many more examples in the different subreddits I would frequent, but regardless, I would definitely like community-specific flair options on the Lemmy instances. For example, the option to have your preferred distro as a user flair on !linux@lemmy.ml

  • Thoralf Will
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    710 months ago

    It’s nice to have. Not more, not less.

    I can live without it. But if anyone is bored to death and badly need something to implement: please do it!

  • comfy
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    510 months ago

    It’s not been something I’ve felt a need for here, but I understand that it can be more useful in some communities.

  • @wiki_me@lemmy.ml
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    410 months ago

    I think in some cases it can be an important contribution, say you are in programmers career website and people write advice, some of those are unemployed or students, other are senior developers or managers , it could be useful that they have some credentials.

  • @RoaringSilence@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    Just thought about this feature and how nice it would be when it’s implemented.

    Edit: yes to community based

  • @Cragsand@beehaw.org
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    110 months ago

    Together with emotes they’re really great for larger communities since they also allow sorting by flair.

    For us over at /r/thegoldengator allows posters to pick one for each streamer or focus, if the post is

    • artwork
    • video
    • photo
    • clip
    • highlighting a specific character

    For smaller communities though they’re probably redundant.