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.

  • ono@lemmy.ca
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    3 years ago
    • 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.)
  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
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    3 years ago

    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.

  • chunktoplane@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    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.

      • veaviticus@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        3 years ago

        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.

  • Bardak@lemmy.ca
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    3 years ago

    I am missing the ability to see other subreddit/communities conversations on the same link.

  • GhostMagician@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    Keyword filtering from RES.

    Also, equivalent of setting up and saving multisubreddits, which helps for accessing communities that are the same but across different instances.

    • LedgeDrop@beehaw.org
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      3 years ago

      Oh, I like it! A multi-subreddit should be a must-have for a federated community like Lemmy.

      It would create a simple way to lump together all these Gaming group (from different servers) into a single view. Such a feature would improve visibility and also (hopefully) reduce the amount of noise/duplicate content (ie: one trailer being reposted to each Gaming channel/server)

      • GhostMagician@beehaw.org
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        3 years ago

        Very common one I did would be something I wanted to avoid spoilers for. So example would be blocking “House of the Dragon” and “Fire and Blood” so I didn’t accidentally see any spoilers from random posts whether it be from before the episode aired, or from book readers who had read everything.

        Particularly useful for anime where most stuff is based off the manga, which manga readers are sometimes really eager to give hints at. Like “oh don’t be attached this character hehehe”. “Oh you’re in for a twist soon.”

        And of course game, I’m not going often getting games when everyone is talking about them the most. So I prefer to block out stuff so things can remain fresh when I get around to it.

    • aes @beehaw.orgOP
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      3 years ago

      Ooh, I definitely agree with multireddits. I definitely want to be able to look at certain communities on the same feed without subscribing to them by default

  • Cora@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    I honestly just miss Apollo, since the layout and customization was amazing. I’d also look forward to seeing Slide being ported / forked for the Fediverse, since it’s free and open source.

    Being able to customize swipe actions and quickly sort through content, as well as hiding content that I’ve already seen (so it doesn’t show up in my feed every time I refresh), were my favorite features by far.

  • GhostCowboy76@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    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.

  • koenada@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    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
      • koenada@beehaw.org
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        3 years ago

        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.

  • ZapBeebz@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    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.

  • GhostCowboy76@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    I wish there was a quality iOS app for it. I keep having to use my browser because Mlem crashes every few seconds not to mention the UI is…well I would just really like an iOS app to enjoy Lemmy from!

  • ColdFenix@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 years ago

    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.

  • ultraHQ@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    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