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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Jerboa needs a lot of work. Especially on the UI front.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

thanks. It lists links to 8 instances. For some reason I couldn't add https://lemmy.world to it though.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • 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)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want to be able to collapse children comments from the parent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I'm not mistaken, you can do that by tapping and holding on the top of the parent comment.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Did you try it recently? I think it looks great now.

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[–] [email protected] 17 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.)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hiding viewed/voted posted is a setting "show read", un-check it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There is an open ticket or multigroups: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year 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)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ooh, I definitely agree with multireddits. I'd be super nice to look at certain communities on the same feed without subscribing to them by default

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes! Everything RES adds would be nice!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hamburger > Settings > [username] settings ...

  • Default listing type
  • Default sort type
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there any setting for comments?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not yet. A pull request was accepted just a few days ago so hopefully will be in the next version of the app.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lemmy Enhancement Suite

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

A way to jump to the next comment within a level. Infinity had a big button to jump to the next top level comment, and the reddit web page you can click on the colored bar that aligns the comment levels to jump to the next comment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss the information density of redreader. Everything just feels so spread out.

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[–] [email protected] 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
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does local vs subscribed view not give you that?

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[–] [email protected] 4 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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm on kbin, but one thing I miss from RES on desktop is the ability to click and drag to resize expanded images

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RES's ability to resize images/video by dragging is one I'm definitely missing right now.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would try to find a solution for instance agostic links for posts or comments. afaik there is currently no way to do that.

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