One that I’d like to see is a more in-depth sorting option for posts (allowing you to see for example top of December 2020, or top of a specific day). A custom date range selection would be best. I remember this being a frequently requested feature in the early days of reddit, and they never implemented it.
I would like to see Reddit-style flairs
Yes, this is actually a super important feature. Extremely useful for communities like AskEurope. You’d have to state your country every time you answered a question were it not for country flairs.
Agree here, that’s important.
Is there a wiki option? Reddit has that thing and while it isnt usually used places like r/sino have it and its some good stuff.
A federated wiki would be a huge amount of work, and I would prefer to leave that to another project, rather than making some half-assed version.
Is the main point of the wiki’s on reddit just that they show revision history, and allow multiple people to edit them?
I don’t even really know what they add.
Dont know, I never modded a sub or edited a wiki over there.
The intent is to give subreddit mods a place to host information. A notable example leftists here might be familiar with is /r/Sino with its “debunking fake news about China” pages.
It’s nice to have, but you can just as easily do the same with posts.
Yeah this is a really nice feature on reddit that I’d love to see someday down the line
Filtering the frontpage’s posts to show just the content from the communities one moderates
The ability to change Lemmy’s site theme (at least from light to dark), without the need to log-in could be cool.
The default lemmy theme uses your browser / OS settings from
prefers-color-scheme. Luckily a lot of browsers are starting to use this now.
When I login it always brings me back to https://lemmy.ml/ Expected behaviour = bring me back to where I was, in the community I was before login in.
I would love to see a truly wild and rich variety of skins that are radically different. Different uses of spacing, color, ways of organizing sections.
I feel like we lost that at some point - I remember winamp and windowblinds, and even just how custom web sites used to be. There’s so much potential available for so “cheap” that it could be a huge deal in terms of creating a flavor.
There’s a theming guide in the docs, and any bootstrap v4 compatible theme will work. You can build one with bootstrap.build
A “hide” button to make submissions disappear from my frontpage even if the discussion goes on.
Mark as read so I stop seeing the same posts over n over again
This isn’t for Lemmy itself, but for it’s Android client Lemmur. It works great but it doesn’t open links in the browser. No matter what I do (I even tried tapping in the 3 points in the upper right corner and tapped “Open in browser” but nothing happens). This is really annoying.
PS. It could be because I don’t have chrome installed, my default browser is Fennec F-Droid. Although every other app opens it correctly (eg Tusky or Infinity for Reddit)
Every links are opening in my browser, worth noting that I’m using Firefox, so it may be a problem of its recognition as a browser by Lemmur. You may should open an issue on their github.
If you’re using Android 11, the issue with links is apparently a bug, which should be fixed with the next release.
Infinite scrolling
Might not be small, but I’d love to subscribe to communities in other instances
Can’t you already do that? As long as the instance federates with the one hosting your account, you can subscribe to its communities
This needs to be highlighted more through the design. This is the keystone of the fediverse! yet it is hard for new comers to figure that out by themselves. more work needs to be done on this subject.
Any idea how? Local and remote communities are shown in the same way, and both have a subscribe button.
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Adding a Federated tab on the front page, so it’s Subscribed/Local/Federated/All, would help.
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Allowing sorting communities on the communities page by subscribers/category/userspermonth/etc by clicking on the relevant column name and having one of the columns be “instance”, would help. Sort the instances automatically alphabetically or by total userspermonth or posts of all of its communities combined or whatever in the background.
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Adding the community@instance.tld and instance.tld/c/community search syntax.
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Adding a small “What is Lemmy and how does it work” tutorial link under the signup/login button. Could be just a “Help?” button. Leads to a simple page that explains the federation concept in layman terms. I prefer the simple “public email” comparison, most people seem to get that quickly.
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Maybe federated communities shouldn’t be shown the same way. Maybe they could have a small “federated” tag next to the name that stands out, in the default theme color scheme css this could be a green background on the “federated” text of the tag. It’s important users notice at a glance they can access federated communities from here on lemmy.ml (or whatever instance they’re on).
Those sound like good ideas, would you mind opening issues for them in the lemmy-ui repo? Ideally a separate issue for each point.
Hey, I’ve opened separate issues for all of these on the repo, but Dessalines closed them all saying all these features already exist (even tho they don’t). Maybe I annoyed him somehow by not formatting something correct/not following some etiquette (it’s my first issue on GitHub) even tho I just filled in the templates. I did end up linking the issues by mentioning them in each other, I thought it would be helpful. Should I just leave this to up to you guys to resolve this internally?
You need to open up individual issues, not 4 issues with identical text. And if you think something isn’t closed, then respond why.
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Excuse my ignorance.
- So you mean when I click on the communities link from the top bar It shows all Lemmy communities even those which are not hosted on this instance ??
- Do posts form say chapo.chat appear on lemmy.ml 's front page?
- If another instance hosts a community with the same name lets say /c/privacy, will posts from that community show in lemmy.ml/c/privacy ? will those threads be merged and shown together?
- Yes, but its sorted by subscribers, and for remote communities we only know the number of subscribers from our instance, not the total number. So they will be shown far at the bottom. Actually this could be fixed as we send the subscriber count over activitypub, feel free to open an issue.
- No, chapo.chat runs an older version of Lemmy where federation isnt really working.
- Both communities will be completely separate.
1 - That’s what I have noticed, I didn’t find communities of other instances listed so I assumed they were not in the list all together. maybe adding another column citing the instance domain will help clear confusion.
3 - In that case a good addition might be giving the user a tool to group communities from different instances and aggregat them into a folder. so I can group abc1.org/c/privacy dce.org/c/privacyland and fgi.org/c/privacytools into one merged feed that I can name to my liking. this could be a good addition once lemmy gets bigger!
you can :)
Hi. Not sure if this is a small or a big feature, but is it possible to have a way to make a post visible in more than one community.
E.g. I sometimes post about embedded programming in Ada. Could it be posted in /c/ embedded_prog but also get linked to /c/ada_lang ? Some sort of reference to other relevant communities to avoid to have to post it double ?
And a second thing that jumps to mind is a bit more and easier to discover docu.
In reply to my own comment I just noticed in this post that it seems to already be possible to cross-post. 🎉
I guess that leaves me with my second suggestion to add more docu or if it exists, make it more dicoverable.
Hey, thanks for collecting user feedback! Here’s a few notes of mine over the last few days:
- to discover forums, it would be useful to filter out (in default view) inactive communities, or maybe order by messages/week instead of by total subscribers?
- creating a forum goes into a category, however i don’t know how to classify some that would fall into several categories… maybe it should be multiple tags per forum and not a single category?
- i could not find a way to browse forums for a single category
- it would be great to specify the language for a forum (on multi-language instances) where your user preferences would filter out languages you don’t speak when browsing communities / recent posts
- cross-posting support is great after the fact, but the “create post” form should really have fields for “auto-crossposting”
- when choosing a forum to post to, the search function doesn’t show which forums i’m subscribed to (maybe they should be higher in the results and/or bold)
- i don’t find it easy to distinguish between when an article image (in list view) will take me to a newpage or expand an image (yes the icon is different but it’s a very small difference)
Thanks for maintaining lemmy, it’s really interesting!
I would like to see photo downloading implemented into the android client (the button is there as of now but it won’t let me download)
You have to talk to the authors of the client you’re using, because Lemmy doesn’t have an official client.
Would love to see support for inline spoiler formatting (eg. >!spoiler!<). But other than that I am really enjoying Lemmy :)
