We’ve got a lot of Lemmy app options rolling out soon—it’s exciting!
What do you wish was better about the current way you browse Lemmy, and what features do you hope to have down the road?
I’m mostly waiting for marking posts as read as you scroll by and hiding read posts (but only in your feed). I think this is especially important with the federated content that might come in later than when I “scrolled past” the point in time it would appear in my feed.
“come in later”? You want a feed that live updates?
They probably mean that you can’t just scroll through and say “okay, I have seen everything created up to the point when I loaded this page” because some posts created earlier might only appear in your feed later.
I agree! This was a great feature that was on multiple reddit apps that I really miss here. Hoping this is something that rolls out soon.
- Order comments by hot/new/votes
- make it really obvious how to sign-up and sign-in
- linking between feddit should not open an in-app browser
Being able to jump back a page without snapping to the top is the only issue I have with the PWA set up I’ve got. Otherwise it’s great as is.
Honestly, Memmy works pretty amazingly… I was surprised, because last time I tried it it was… empty. It’s REALLY good now.
keyword filters, so you can avoid posts about “trump” or “hitler” and other things that annoy you
I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but the biggest feature for me would be an automatic redirect to your current instance if you click on a fedi link to another instance
It’s annoying when someone links a post from another instance, and I click the link but I can’t interact since I’m not logged in on that URL
Basically, if you’re on one instance and click on a link to a post from another instance, it should open that post on your current instance. The desktop version of Lemmy needs this too.
This is really my biggest point of contention with the fediverse atm. Needs to be easier to interact across instances without copying, pasting, editing, or typing in URLs
When using lemmy in the browser, there are some userscripts that do this.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcherbut I would love to see this as sort of default behavior, so that the user indeed does not have to “fight” the system to get it to subscribe properly.
For web: better theming, for app: i18n, for both: much smoother subscription to other instances.
Off the top of my head…
- Easy user following
- Auto markdown
- Download image/video
- Share as image
I’d like some tablet/large screen optimizations now that I have a Pixel Fold! Sync for Reddit and Infinity are example apps that do it right in my opinion
The ability to copy the URL of a video so I can paste it to NewPipe - or a setting where I can choose to use YouTube or NewPipe all red the time.
Apart from the ones already mentioned,
- being able to collapse all threads in a post to only show parent-level comments
- keyboard shortcuts ala RES (esp the J-K navigation)
- more themes (the default ones suck)
- more image improvements
For your 2nd point, I made a script. It works with arrows so you may or may not like it. Also I see a PR was opened yesterday on Lemmy-ui for J-K navigation
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Subscribe to whole instances, not just individual communities, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
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Easily block communities from the ALL feed, without 3 or 4 clicks
, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
How do you imagine that would work? Federation is what enables you to interact with anything on other instances in the first place.
Or do you just mean “add all communities on a remote instance to the list of communities you can search for locally at once”?
For point two, Connect for Lemmy just added a block button from the three dot menu on the feed.
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Multi-lemmy. I really miss having my custom feeds made with the multi reddit tool,.
This would be so useful to group related communities from different instances as well.
Ability to choose the default sort for comments
wefwef.app is perfect and extremely smooth right now and can be installed locally as an app. It’s open-source, it has a GitHub repo for those who want to host their own or want to audit the code. Would be cool if it was available directly as an apk on Play Store, I believe it would be hugely beneficial for Lemmy if it became the “official” app!
I’d say other apps should try to take some hints from wefwef, it does all the things right, is inspired by Apollo and once you use it you won’t miss Reddit at all!
Swiping in order to upvote/downvotes/reply is an awesome feature that definitely stands out.
I’m not a fan of gestures for actions in general, I spend a lot of time trying to get them right or even worse, accidentally making them and doing something I didn’t want.
Before I got thunder I used jerboa. It has a bug where when I backspaced it would squish the text together making me have to go and respace my text.
