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I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important. I propose creating a quarterly pinned post on Lemmy asking users for complaints and suggestions. This way, developers can better understand the community’s biggest pain points and what to focus on. The goal is to provide constructive feedback so developers can prioritize the most pressing issues.
Please keep discussion productive and focused on specific problems. Avoid vague complaints or feature wishes without justification. Our aim is to give developers clear insights into issues impacting users most.
This has been suggested many times, but we need a way to link comments and posts in an instance-agnostic way. Getting pulled to a new instance when you click a link is very confusing for new users. Another use case that was common on reddit that won’t work without this feature is you can’t have a stickied post with links to other important posts in the community. People will get pulled into the instance that the linker is in, which means people who follow the link will be logged out (unless their account is on the same instance as OP) and won’t be able to interact with the post.
This isn’t a nice-to-have feature. This is a must-have feature.
Until this is officially added, there are browser addons that will automatically convert links to your own home instance.
Sure, and that’s great to know and remind people. You and I know how to workaround the issue, but the experience is broken for people who don’t. People who are new to lemmy don’t know that they need to install a browser extension. And that’s why this isn’t an acceptable solution. This needs to be a very high priority, and should be the next thing they work on after 0.19 release.
If there is an extension for it, it means that it can be implemented fully client-side.
If it can be implemented client-side, it shouldn’t be implemented server side. It just makes things harder to scale and more expensive to run.
Maybe this could be a feature request on lemmy-ui, but not for lemmy itself.
Yea LemmyLink gives you something to click on, but it gets slow on long pages because it replaces links themselves.
InstanceAssistant you need to right click, but it’s fast. This one also lets you open a post back on your home instance, for if you already ended up somewhere. I use that more than the link conversion because usually I don’t need to comment on the posts so when I do, I click the button to redirect.
They really need to handle them in Lemmy though
If anyone wants to track this issue https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987
Doesn’t this already work with proper links? E.g this link works fine for me in a Voyager and my standard mobile browser too: !polls@reddthat.com
That’s a community, not a post or a comment. Try the link to this post.
Repetition. The front page algorithm frequently shows way too many posts from a single community, often in a row. It also tends to show me a lot of duplicated posts that have been reposted to multiple communities.
There needs to be a better mix in the way posts are selected. Popular communities should not be able to dominate the listing with multiple posts. The more posts they get to the front page, the more they should be down-weighted in order to give an equitable mix.
This complaint applies to All, Local, and Subscribed. If you don’t want to change the default algorithm, then perhaps add the new one as an option?
There is a “scaled sort” that will be released in the next version iirc.
I definitely agree with this one. It makes browsing feel very stagnant at times, because unless I go out of my way to view the communities I’ve subscribed to then I don’t really see most of them.
I wish there were an option to see like 80-90% communities I’m subscribed to or following or whatever, and 10-20% posts from communities I’m not subscribed to that are getting a lot of activity. I mostly only want to see what I opt-in for, but a small amount of discovery would be nice
I don’t like the probability part of this solution.
oh wow that’s actually exactly what I was looking for
communities im interested in are really small
There’s nothing we can do about that in the software. Perhaps you mean to say that you don’t see enough of the communities you are interested in because they are small and get overshadowed by larger communities, and you’d like to see more of them.
I think grouping communities on different instances by name would be one solution. There’s multiple “linux” communities on different instances and one has to subscribe to each on in order to see posts from them. There’s no “I want to subscribe to linux communities on all instances” button / feature.
no, the issue i just said in my first comment is my olny one
Not complaint but suggestion: When I get to the bottom of a column of msgs and click the NEXT button … page should scroll to the top!
User flair. I know it’s probably not that high on the list for most who might see it as a gimmick, but it’s almost essential for sports discussion to know what team a user supports. I’m sure many other communities have compelling reasons as well.
The mod tools are too basic and barebones. I’d appreciate if we can get:
- Post approval system for new or low-karma accounts (it can be karma for local communities)
- Reporting system with multiple options (very hard to implement in the fediverse as everyone has different rules) so that the reports are sent to the proper channels. Admins shouldn’t have to deal with community-specific rules (for example, “memes only on mondays”).
- Automoderator (these might already exist? I have not tried them.)
I don’t know if I should split this comment into three or not but they’re some general suggestions to address the complaint of basic mod tools.
Automoderator (these might already exist? I have not tried them.)
awesome lemmy lists a few.
Migration of profile (comments etc)
I miss the ability to view all the posts that I upvoted.
Every morning I look at everything and have to block about 20 communities because they aren’t English. I filter posts on language, but these have no language set, so they come through. Would be great to tighten up language detection, or community defaults
They forced “no language set” to always be added to the language filter. I dislike the decision too, but there’s an issue on github about it and people can leave the opinion there.
Too many duplicate posts because of people cross posting the same content to all the duplicate channels across all the federated servers. I regularly see 5 duplicates in a row while browsing. It’s very annoying.
I need to sub to a bundle of all pc gaming communities out there. A Federated group of communities.
Meta-communities but each community can declare what they are about, so nobody necessarily needs to create the meta-community.
Like opt-in multireddits? That sounds cool.
A bit like recreating the old Yahoo! categorization of the web.
Turn off reply notifications.
You can do a “thumbs up” on github, iirc the developer said last time i talked to him is that this is what they use for prioratization.
Here is the list of the most “thumbs up” issues on github for the “lemmy” repo.
We could always use rysolv (a bounty platform), that can different from “I want this” and “i think it is important enought to risk some of my money for it”.
And for the curious, but ultimately too lazy to click, there is the top 10ish at this moment.
- Support for grouping communities / multi-communities 👍 184
- Post tags 👍 91
- Allow instance migration for communities and users 👍 72
- Instance agnostic links 👍 63
- User Flair Feature 👍 44
- Dynamically subscribe to other instances communities 👍 26
- OAuth (2.0) 👍 25
- Add community privacy oriented settings
https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/930215
👍 24
9. Co-hosting communities across instances (e.g. “sharding”) 👍 22
10. Add native support for polls 👍 19
11. Local only community 👍 18
12. No ARM Dockerfile available 👍 18Don’t forget to look at a similar list of ✅ closed issues.
Yeah, this post might be a bit clickbaity, luring people with false expectations. I suppose OP has not spoken a word with the devs, and they won’t look at this thread, nor do they see a need for a poll of some sorts. Or maybe I’m wrong, but the wording is suspiciously vague.
Thanks for pointing out what actually works; GitHub issues and bounties.
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