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.)
I think the lack of hiding of previously viewed posts is one of my biggest gripes. I used to use Hide a lot in Reddit but all the alternatives are missing it.
A few other issues I have:
- the need to click into threads to open a link is annoying
- the inability to open comments and links in separate tabs/windows
- lack of flair - /r/nfl flair were really nice, for example
Hiding viewed/voted posted is a setting “show read”, un-check it.
Yeah, I think that a helps a bit but if it requires actually opening the thread, then it’s only a mild improvement. I’d really prefer mark as read or hide without opening the thread (there’s a lot of threads I have no interest in reading but are hanging around the front page).
I appreciate the suggestion though. It does help a little.
I just vote up or down. When you pull down to refresh, they disappear.
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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!
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…
On the Jerboa app, swiping right to go back to to previous page. And the ability to hide viewed posts on both mobile app and browses.
I didn’t know how much I did this until I used Jerboa
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.
I’m presently working on changing the url schema to more match reddit’s,
Eg:
/post/{title}-{title_id}
/post/{title}-{title_id}/comments
Etc.
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
Jerboa needs a lot of work. Especially on the UI front.
The thing i haven’t worked out yet, is how to get it to open links to lemmy communities by default. For example if I click on a link from community promo it opens in Firefox focus rather than Jeroba. If I search for said community on Jeroba, it usually won’t find it.
You can get it to open some links by going to app info, by holding the app on the homesceen. Then default links, you can toggle open support links and add the links available from there
thanks. It lists links to 8 instances. For some reason I couldn’t add https://lemmy.world to it though.
Yes! How do you even search for a community in Jerboa?
To search on Jerboa I’ve been clicking the bookmark bar next to home icon, I can normally find communities this way
Thanks! I actually had somehow missed that.
- Ability to tag certain communities without manually copying the link
- Create custom community collections (Technology collection, memes collection)
- View linked post/comment without changing instance (provided I’m subscribed to that community)
Did you try it recently? I think it looks great now.
I’m using it right now, yes. Unless your referring to the alpha, than not yet.
No just the default version. I think it’s pretty great, just some things that I would change. But in general, the app really works.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy it exists. Lots of good in this app. There are some key features though that I miss. Specifically the RiF interface for subs search and joining and the sub-grouping feature.
Yup agree, some things can be improved and I’m very convinced it’s being worked on. Many people are working together on the app right now to make it become stellar.
I want to be able to collapse children comments from the parent.
If I’m not mistaken, you can do that by tapping and holding on the top of the parent comment.
It really needs an app and page with a decent and clean UI. (most important)
It also needs a more streamline way of finding communities.
It would be nice as well to have better feeds as well.
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.
I’d love a way to browse other instances “local” view the way I can browse my own home instance.
Incidentally, this is also a missing feature on Mastodon.
- 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
I’m on kbin, but one thing I miss from RES on desktop is the ability to click and drag to resize expanded images
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 miss Apollo :(
And RiF. The ability to search for subs and create topic groups, etc.
We have been spoiled by both! I use the Melm iPhone app which is still in beta, and there are a TON of features I want… which I realize was just Apollo! It stinks that the development of new features we enjoyed with Apollo is kind of back at square 1 with new apps.