I’d like to invite you all to share your thoughts and ideas about Lemmy. This feedback thread is a great place to do that, as it allows for easier discussions than Github thanks to the tree-like comment structure. This is also where the community is at.
Here’s how you can participate:
- Post one top-level comment per complaint or suggestion about Lemmy.
- Reply to comments with your own ideas or links to Github issues related to the complaints.
- Be specific and constructive. Avoid vague wishes and focus on specific issues that can be fixed.
- This thread is a chance for us to not only identify the biggest pain points but also work together to find the best solutions.
By creating this periodic post, we can:
- Track progress on issues raised in previous threads.
- See how many issues have been resolved over time.
- Gauge whether the developers are responsive to user feedback.
Your input may be valuable in helping prioritize development efforts and ensuring that Lemmy continues to meet the needs of its community. Let’s work together to make Lemmy even better!
NSFW only filter. Flip the existing one, add that as radio button with the NSFW block.
I think polls could be useful.
Piefed has polls
I’d like the ability to block users when I stumble over an imbecile while browsing, but I still need to see the blocked user’s comments in groups that I moderate.
At present, user blocks are absolute, and don’t take moderation into consideration. This means, since I moderate a group, I can’t block users. If I do, and they later post to the group I moderate, I won’t see their posts or comments.
Don’t use github, don’t post like an AI, don’t compare to piefed without constructive criticism.
I don’t like anybody else here. Please leave.
A multi-community feature that allows you to group communities into a single feed is urgently needed.
pretty sure Lemmy v1.0 will have that
Piefed has that https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
Agreed. I want to be to join them together. The only real difficulty will be for comments. How do they get federated between different instances
Piefed has that https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
(Note that I am not sure how much of this is depends on my client - Voyager.)
Ability to filter out posts made by people from the instances I have blocked, on communities that I did not block.
For example: feddit.org seems to have blocked all IPs from my country so I cannot see any posts made by them (I can only see their crossposts).
However, people on that instance can post to lemmy.world and while I can see the post text, any media fails to load. Sometimes, when I am not lazy, I use a VPN to see such posts in detail.
Piefed has instance blocking that blocks users, and supports Voyager https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
Thanks. This might finally push me to switch.
More URL tag functionality!
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?Top=1Y&Start=20240101 This would give the top results of the last year, according Jan 1st 2024 (so top posts of last year). One of things I most dislike about Reddit is not being able to find top content, but as it was in the past (e.g. before a subreddit went to s*** or voting became inflated and top of all time is suddenly everything from last month).
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?Max=100 This would limit the amount of results you see, so if you start doom scrolling eventually you would just get no results at all.
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just about any setting you can set with an account I don’t want to login to things, if there’s a setting that can be done via account, it can probablf also be done via URL tag. Then I can bookmark it and not have to login.
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Chat view could show single comment of context
this would be almost identical to old school forums, clubsall does this too even with posts that originated from Lemmy
markdown element for datetime with automatic timezone conversions
like how Discord uses hammertime
Remotely open post, similar to remote follow
I think this would greatly reduce confusion for new users when they click a Lemmy link and end up on a different instance
That would require some kind of local client side software.
Some kind of browser extension.have you seen the “Subscribe from Remote Instance” feature that already exists in Lemmy?
Could be identical to this
You’d have manually enter your home instance on every site you visit. Super annoying. Not a solution.
Mastodon does what @Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com is suggesting.
It’s better than the current solution.it’s better than nothing, users get so confused currently when they see this
that message would be greatly improved if it said “or open this in your home instance by clicking here”
also if it uses a common input name (which it would because it’s the same Lemmy software) then your webbrowser would suggest/autocomplete it
also if it uses a common input name (which it would because it’s the same Lemmy software) then your webbrowser would suggest/autocomplete it
That’s exactly the local software I’m talking about! Now we’re on the same page. Rather than being a form, the local software could just detect and do it all seamlessly.
yea the web browser is local software lol
but really this feature should exist regardless of autocomplete, just to reduce user confusion, so people are aware of how this stuff works instead of trying to click the login link and then failing to login and making an angry Reddit post about it
the fact that it presents a link to solve the user’s problem means that the user will click on it, and currently Lemmy only shows the login link as the solution to the problem, so of course the users will click on that and then they’re lost
Rather than being a form, the local software could just detect and do it all seamlessly.
the web browser won’t grant access to cross domain storage
even if it did some people have multiple accounts, or may not have logged in on the current device yet, or might be browsing incognito/inprivate, so it would still have to be a form of some kind
I am not able to import data from a backup file. It always says “Try importing or exporting after a few minutes”
I would like to be able to comment and vote on items on the modlog.
I’d just get banned from that too ;-)
Personal labels/tags or whatever they are called for both users and communities would be awesome to have in the standard lemmy front end. I think some apps or other formats might have them, but I do like the default lemmy interface and they would be extremely handy to have saved by an account for personal reminders.
Some examples would be the ability to set personal reminders for uncommon rules on specific communities or who has good takes on some random topic. There are just so many of both and it can be hard to keep similarly named things straight.
For user tagging. see this . its implemented on the server side but not on the UI side. give it a thumbs up maybe it will help the developers prioritize it.
Piefed has flairs for both posts and users
The last time I checked the piefed layout options weren’t my thing, but I’ll give it another shot.
I would love a tagging standard. I have a lot on Sync, and while none are critical, it would be nice to be able to transfer them over to another app.
The ability to block posts by keyword would be nice. The ability to merge communities and have lemmy move the subscriptions over to the merged community, mastodon does something similar with moving accounts so it is possible.
PieFed has keyword filters and multicommunities
