Heyo, what little things with Reddit and RES have you been missing with the Lemmy UI?
For me it’s been keyboard post/comment navigation (like RES) and keyboard shortcuts. E.g. I can’t post this submission with ctrl + enter as I could on many other input forms.
- Make remote community discovery more intuitive.
- Make remote community subscription more reliable.
- Make navigation & reading work without javascript.
- Make dark mode available when not logged in.
- Indicate which comments are new when returning to a recently-visited post. (old.reddit.com does this if you have premium.)
- Display user and community names with the domain part dimmed (and maybe on a separate line), for less visual clutter at a quick glance.
- Display user names without prepending an @ sign, for the same reason.
- Allow sorting community lists by name.
- Horizontally align all community names in lists, regardless of whether they have icons.
- Reduce wasted screen space.
- When reading a post/comment on any random instance (perhaps found via web search) make subscribing & finding that post on the user’s home instance a one-click operation, so they can reply.
- Optionally hide avatars & community icons.
- Optionally (admin choice) mirror remote instances’ images, so they can’t be abused by remote parties to track local users.
- Optionally (user choice) disable or replace remote images, for the same reason.
- Stop auto-inserting new items into a list that’s being viewed. (It causes what I’m reading to suddenly shift or disappear off-screen, which is disorienting.)
- Make buttons work reliably. (Clicking them sometimes applies a border without doing anything else.)
Make likes and comments have a stronger effect for smaller communities in the listing algorithm. The top of me feed is just c/technology and c/meme.
- stop refreshing the front page/inserting new posts automatically
- mark as read on scroll past
- multireddit
- decent ipad app - mlem is a rgeat start on iphone but no ipad support
- consistent ‘go back’ experience - I have on a number of occasions gone into a post then clicked browser back button only to be presented with a completely different list of posts on my front page
An easy way to search for and subscribe to non local communities would be great. Right now the search only considers “connected” instances and only considers the community name and not the sidebar or actual content.
On jerboa, I wish there was a way to enlarge images posted in commdnts
This, as well as a builtin browser and a way to view URLs before opening them (like RIF does).
Yes, I agree! I’d also love it if, when you click a link, it shows the full true link and then let’s you choose whether or not you want to go there, like RiF does.
That way if someone posts a link behind some text, you have a better idea of what you’re getting into before it just pops up on your screen. Could be what they said it was, could be a Rick Roll, could be awful brain-scarring porn like Leon Party…
A “Mark Read on Scroll” feature. I’ve noticed each time I’m entering a previously viewed community I have to scroll past the stuff I’ve already seen. This could be user error as I’m fairly new to this.
Absolutely agree. THis is a big one for me
I already saw one user who posted great content including citations – adding user tags is what I miss.
Yes! Everything RES adds would be nice!
Lemmy Enhancement Suite
I’m presently working on changing the url schema to more match reddit’s,
Eg:
/post/{title}-{title_id}/post/{title}-{title_id}/commentsEtc.
I have all the code changes locally but waiting for a new PSU fot my home server to come in tomorrow for my dev server as i dont feel like setting up postgres etc on my laptop
So far everything is just a case of getting used to it for me. I’m using the Jerboa app, and the two biggest improvements I can see right now are 1) allowing me to change the default sort (top, new, active, etc.). I can change it every time I open the app, but I’d like to be able to set it and forget it and 2) I’m not a huge fan of pinned posts staying at the top of my feed no matter how I’m sorting it, although this would also be solved by hiding already read posts, I suppose.
Hamburger > Settings > [username] settings …
- Default listing type
- Default sort type
Is there any setting for comments?
Not yet. A pull request was accepted just a few days ago so hopefully will be in the next version of the app.
I miss the information density of redreader. Everything just feels so spread out.
Missing: A working mobile app
I’m on Beehaw with a couple of subscriptions to communities in other instances. I like viewing all of the local Beehaw communities as a “front page”, but I’d like my other subscriptions to show up in that view without having to manually subscribe to all of the Beehaw communities.
Does local vs subscribed view not give you that?
I think they’re saying that they like using the local view as a /r/all type replacement (a view of the highest voted content across all communities). But they’d like to be able to selectively add an entire other instance to their local view.
The only way to do this today is to subscribe to every community on your main instance and every community on the other instance, and use Subscribed as a mega view… But then that ruins the Subscribed view as a selected subset.
To put it another way, I want to view all the best content across N many instances at once, so I can discover new communities.
On the Jerboa app, swiping right to go back to previous page. And the ability to hide viewed posts on both mobile app and browses.
For me it’s filtering out posts that I’ve already seen. Now I get the same posts over and over again.
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