Technology

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

• 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

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

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.

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

I miss Apollo :(

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'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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lemmy Enhancement Suite

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/984

ctrl+enter already has a PR

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1163

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

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

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

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