We’ve got a lot of Lemmy app options rolling out soon—it’s exciting!
What do you wish was better about the current way you browse Lemmy, and what features do you hope to have down the road?
We’ve got a lot of Lemmy app options rolling out soon—it’s exciting!
What do you wish was better about the current way you browse Lemmy, and what features do you hope to have down the road?
I'm mostly waiting for marking posts as read as you scroll by and hiding read posts (but only in your feed). I think this is especially important with the federated content that might come in later than when I "scrolled past" the point in time it would appear in my feed.
They probably mean that you can't just scroll through and say "okay, I have seen everything created up to the point when I loaded this page" because some posts created earlier might only appear in your feed later.
No.
But say, I'm currently looking at my Subscriptions sorted by New. I doomscroll until I see stuff that is 10 hours old. While I do that posts could come in that are 5 hours old. But the next time I doomscroll I wouldn't go that far back because I think I've already seen stuff that old.
If what I have seen already was automatically marked as read and not showing for me, I would still see the 5 hours old stuff because that wouldn't have been marked as read.
Being able to jump back a page without snapping to the top is the only issue I have with the PWA set up I’ve got. Otherwise it’s great as is.
Honestly, Memmy works pretty amazingly… I was surprised, because last time I tried it it was… empty. It’s REALLY good now.
keyword filters, so you can avoid posts about "trump" or "hitler" and other things that annoy you
I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but the biggest feature for me would be an automatic redirect to your current instance if you click on a fedi link to another instance
It's annoying when someone links a post from another instance, and I click the link but I can't interact since I'm not logged in on that URL
Basically, if you're on one instance and click on a link to a post from another instance, it should open that post on your current instance. The desktop version of Lemmy needs this too.
This is really my biggest point of contention with the fediverse atm. Needs to be easier to interact across instances without copying, pasting, editing, or typing in URLs
For web: better theming, for app: i18n, for both: much smoother subscription to other instances.
Subscribe to whole instances, not just individual communities, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
Easily block communities from the ALL feed, without 3 or 4 clicks
, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
How do you imagine that would work? Federation is what enables you to interact with anything on other instances in the first place.
Or do you just mean "add all communities on a remote instance to the list of communities you can search for locally at once"?
For point two, Connect for Lemmy just added a block button from the three dot menu on the feed.
I'd like some tablet/large screen optimizations now that I have a Pixel Fold! Sync for Reddit and Infinity are example apps that do it right in my opinion
The ability to copy the URL of a video so I can paste it to NewPipe - or a setting where I can choose to use YouTube or NewPipe all red the time.
Off the top of my head…
User option to block Lemmy server/instance
Quick Scroll
Mute words
Notes
Embed youtube/invidious/peertube that pins on scroll
Before I got thunder I used jerboa. It has a bug where when I backspaced it would squish the text together making me have to go and respace my text.
On top of that, I think the most crucial is to have a very fluid and stable interface, which I think is not the case for most apps.
wefwef.app is perfect and extremely smooth right now and can be installed locally as an app. It's open-source, it has a GitHub repo for those who want to host their own or want to audit the code. Would be cool if it was available directly as an apk on Play Store, I believe it would be hugely beneficial for Lemmy if it became the "official" app!
I'd say other apps should try to take some hints from wefwef, it does all the things right, is inspired by Apollo and once you use it you won't miss Reddit at all!
Swiping in order to upvote/downvotes/reply is an awesome feature that definitely stands out.
I'm not a fan of gestures for actions in general, I spend a lot of time trying to get them right or even worse, accidentally making them and doing something I didn't want.
Apart from the ones already mentioned,
Something very simple on the web client: a setting to get links to open in a new tab, to make it easier to get back to the same point in the comments.
A wishlist for two categories, in each sorted from very important to less important:
Technical:
View:
This was meant with the web/browser in mind. I expect apps and clients to work similarly, unless a characteristic necessitates exceptions (screen size, touch, ...).
Massive effort on high quality i18n, l10n and a11y.
Improving just these will make Lemmy accessible to millions of more users and communities.