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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.
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I want categories of blocklists that I can turn on, e.g. uncheck languages I don’t know, uncheck religion, uncheck politics, etc.
I want to be able to group together all posts that were posted by the same user with the same content to different committees. I want to view that as a single post not 6 or however many they spam posted it to.
I want to be able to view same community spanning different server instances as a single community if I so choose, maybe some way to combine them and auto-add new communities with same name as they pop up ok other instances. Posting to it should give option of which server to post to, or all of them?
Another, with regards to inbox and user replies. My inbox count will not refresh unless I refresh the entire page. Navigation should update the notification badge. Replies need to be manually marked as read. On Reddit, one could simply click the reply and it would be marked as read, much like an email. This might be a good thing to implement.
Maybe its just me, but there is one very common thing that happen to me through any firefox (desktop or mobile) and irrespective of any specific lemmy server, and irrespective if I’m authenticated or browsing as public/anonymous.
Lets say I’m looking at the front page of lemmy.world. I’ve reached the bottom of the page (lets call that page #0) and hit the “NEXT” button. The next page loads successfully displaying the next page of items (so now we’re on page #1). I click/tap into an article or comments of one. This loads successfully. When I finish reading, I click/tap the BACK button in the browser. Since I was on Page #1 I would expect to go back to Page #1. Instead I GO BACK TO PAGE #0! So I have to scroll to the bottom of Page #0, hit NEXT again, Page #1 loads successfully. If I were to click/tap into different article or comments, read, and hit BACK in the browser, I would have to repeat the same page #0, scroll to the bottom, hit NEXT to return to Page #1 again.
Any ideas? Is there a different button somewhere in the body of the page I should be clicked a back function instead of using the browser built in BACK button?
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.
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.
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.
My biggest complaint is that people drive by downvote my niche community. No one even cares lol its just so sad and pathetic.
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.
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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?
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.
I want something similar to multi-reddits. I want to mix and match communities to my hearts desire into one big feed. I also want to combine duplicate communities from different instances to the same feed.
If anyone wants to track this issue
I miss the ability to view all the posts that I upvoted.
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”.
Turn off reply notifications.
When you click on “list of communites”. An option to default to “subscribed”. I never just want to see “local”.