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Often, its asked what the fediverse or lemmy needs more of in terms of content, but are there any specific features or functionality you really feel are lacking?

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

Some way of grouping Communities other than by name (not very useful). E.G. search on 'Climate' and you don't get the name of one of the busiest communities.

In other words, group them a step up the taxonomy. Create 10 or 15 groups (sci/tech, history, music, culture, media, nature, issues, locations....), see what mods have to say about that list. (Could do worse than the Wikipedia taxonomy.)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love the Old Lemmy webiste, I wish there was a way to incorporate a RES type of extension for Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mean, it's doable now, but I think that the limiting factor is just the userbase. More developers using the platform, more people interested in writing code for browser extensions.

There is a lemmy/kbin assistant extension for Firefox, which is far, far more basic than RES, but provides one critical feature that I regularly use -- being able to view a post on one's home instance. So people have done work on these.

Also, if by "Old Lemmy", you mean mlmym, that's not merely the website. It's an alternate Web UI that instances can run alongside the regular one. My home instance does so at https://old.lemmy.today/

EDIT: Your home instance does as well, at https://old.lemmy.world/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Reddit Markdown lets one use italics inside links, like so:

I like [the author of *A Game of Thrones*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin).

However, Lemmy does not presently support this syntax, renders it as:

I like the author of A Game of Thrones.

I frequently want to have partially-styled links like this, particularly italics.

EDIT: Okay, I just discovered that apparently this has been implemented since the last time I tried it. Thanks, devs!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In frontends, I'd like to have the option to not show displaynames, or at least show real usernames next to displaynames.

If you want to reference a user using @username@instance syntax, you need to know their username, and while the displaynames can be cute, I've just never seen a really compelling argument for them. I also haven't seen anyone abusing them yet, but they seem likely to be trouble from a "trying to impersonate someone else" standpoint.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

option to get notifications when a post or a comment subtree gets a new comment. Especially (but not only) useful for your own posts, and for when you have commented on a topic whereyou are interested in not only the direct responses, but in the overall discussion.

to handle deleted content better: when a post or a comment is deleted, keep them openable, to still have the context readable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When you ask OP a question, then someone says "I'd like to know, too!" and OP only replies to the comment under yours.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

and only I get notified. and only for that reply, if discussion continues in deeper replies I won't get notified

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ability to search Saved Posts, and RSS for them too like Reddit has.

I save a lot of handy things on Lemmy but it’s really difficult to find them again later. It also seems to sort by original post creation date instead of when I saved them so this makes it even more difficult to find later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Linking one of the AO3 tag tutorials because tagging? is extremely powerful.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41214669?view_full_work=true

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What would that involve? I mean, you can already have spoiler sections in post body text.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Allow me to upvote posts and comments within search.

Super-compact mode for posts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Allow me to upvote posts and comments within search.

Tesseract and Photon both allow that :)

Maybe others, too, but I'm most familiar with those two since I've been involved in their development (and they're my daily drivers).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Detect AI prompts attached to images and not strip them from images on upload the way other EXIF data is.

Stripping EXIF location data to help keep people from being doxxed is one thing, but AI image generators try to make images with metadata to indicate that the images are AI generated, which helps avoid using them for training and lets people inspect how images are created. As of now, that gets stripped on upload. It's particularly obnoxious over in [email protected].

EDIT: Even nicer would be the option to leave EXIF location data attached, and merely warn a user at upload time about location data and provide the option to strip it, as I can certainly imagine communities where people would really like to be able to include precise location data with their images.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Make it easier to join.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
  • frontpage by default is too old (sometimes 2+ days)
  • better search
  • maybe it's just me but my tiny brain refuses to learn clicking on a title brings me to the comments and not the article. an option would be nice
  • filters based on tags
  • can mods post comments next to a title? this can be very helpful (e.g. "misleading?")
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd love to see something similar to reddit enhancement suite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

RES is huge. Any specific must-have features?

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