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submitted 1 year ago by aes@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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.

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[-] ono@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.)
[-] giddy@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago
  1. stop refreshing the front page/inserting new posts automatically
  2. mark as read on scroll past
  3. multireddit
  4. decent ipad app - mlem is a rgeat start on iphone but no ipad support
  5. 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
[-] Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

On jerboa, I wish there was a way to enlarge images posted in commdnts

[-] Zoop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

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...

[-] SomethingBurger@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This, as well as a builtin browser and a way to view URLs before opening them (like RIF does).

[-] dialecticcake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I already saw one user who posted great content including citations -- adding user tags is what I miss.

[-] FracturedPelvis@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago
[-] sedawk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

And RiF. The ability to search for subs and create topic groups, etc.

[-] ColdFenix@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] chunktoplane@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] GhostCowboy76@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] giddy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely agree. THis is a big one for me

[-] BeardedGuy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I would love for links to other Lemmy domains to be localized to your home domain by default. It could also include a small button to then switch over to the other instance if you wanted to register a separate account there.

[-] Sentenial@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

For me it’s filtering out posts that I’ve already seen. Now I get the same posts over and over again.

[-] OptimusPrime@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] sedawk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] sedawk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Yes! How do you even search for a community in Jerboa?

[-] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

There's a communities item, but some instances require that somone searched for that community by url (the full url of the community) on the instance main page before searching for the community in Jerboa will work. Be better if the Jerboa community search just scraped some master list or something.

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