Heyo, what little things with Reddit and RES have you been missing with the Lemmy UI?

For me it’s been keyboard post/comment navigation (like RES) and keyboard shortcuts. E.g. I can’t post this submission with ctrl + enter as I could on many other input forms.

    • Zoop@beehaw.org
      2·
      3 years ago

      Yes, I agree! I’d also love it if, when you click a link, it shows the full true link and then let’s you choose whether or not you want to go there, like RiF does.

      That way if someone posts a link behind some text, you have a better idea of what you’re getting into before it just pops up on your screen. Could be what they said it was, could be a Rick Roll, could be awful brain-scarring porn like Leon Party…

  • koenada@beehaw.org
    6·
    3 years ago

    I think the lack of hiding of previously viewed posts is one of my biggest gripes. I used to use Hide a lot in Reddit but all the alternatives are missing it.

    A few other issues I have:

    • the need to click into threads to open a link is annoying
    • the inability to open comments and links in separate tabs/windows
    • lack of flair - /r/nfl flair were really nice, for example
  • ultraHQ@beehaw.org
    5·
    3 years ago

    I’m presently working on changing the url schema to more match reddit’s,

    Eg:

    /post/{title}-{title_id}

    /post/{title}-{title_id}/comments

    Etc.

    I have all the code changes locally but waiting for a new PSU fot my home server to come in tomorrow for my dev server as i dont feel like setting up postgres etc on my laptop

  • ono@lemmy.ca
    5·
    3 years ago
    • Make remote community discovery more intuitive.
    • Make remote community subscription more reliable.
    • Make navigation & reading work without javascript.
    • Make dark mode available when not logged in.
    • Indicate which comments are new when returning to a recently-visited post. (old.reddit.com does this if you have premium.)
    • Display user and community names with the domain part dimmed (and maybe on a separate line), for less visual clutter at a quick glance.
    • Display user names without prepending an @ sign, for the same reason.
    • Allow sorting community lists by name.
    • Horizontally align all community names in lists, regardless of whether they have icons.
    • Reduce wasted screen space.
    • When reading a post/comment on any random instance (perhaps found via web search) make subscribing & finding that post on the user’s home instance a one-click operation, so they can reply.
    • Optionally hide avatars & community icons.
    • Optionally (admin choice) mirror remote instances’ images, so they can’t be abused by remote parties to track local users.
    • Optionally (user choice) disable or replace remote images, for the same reason.
    • Stop auto-inserting new items into a list that’s being viewed. (It causes what I’m reading to suddenly shift or disappear off-screen, which is disorienting.)
    • Make buttons work reliably. (Clicking them sometimes applies a border without doing anything else.)
  • GhostMagician@beehaw.org
    5·
    3 years ago

    Keyword filtering from RES.

    Also, equivalent of setting up and saving multisubreddits, which helps for accessing communities that are the same but across different instances.

    • LedgeDrop@beehaw.org
      3·
      3 years ago

      Oh, I like it! A multi-subreddit should be a must-have for a federated community like Lemmy.

      It would create a simple way to lump together all these Gaming group (from different servers) into a single view. Such a feature would improve visibility and also (hopefully) reduce the amount of noise/duplicate content (ie: one trailer being reposted to each Gaming channel/server)

    • aes <she/her>@beehaw.orgOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      Ooh, I definitely agree with multireddits. I’d be super nice to look at certain communities on the same feed without subscribing to them by default

      • GhostMagician@beehaw.org
        5·
        3 years ago

        Very common one I did would be something I wanted to avoid spoilers for. So example would be blocking “House of the Dragon” and “Fire and Blood” so I didn’t accidentally see any spoilers from random posts whether it be from before the episode aired, or from book readers who had read everything.

        Particularly useful for anime where most stuff is based off the manga, which manga readers are sometimes really eager to give hints at. Like “oh don’t be attached this character hehehe”. “Oh you’re in for a twist soon.”

        And of course games, I’m not often getting games when everyone is talking about them the most. So I prefer to block out stuff so things can remain fresh when I get around to it.

  • ZapBeebz@beehaw.org
    5·
    3 years ago

    So far everything is just a case of getting used to it for me. I’m using the Jerboa app, and the two biggest improvements I can see right now are 1) allowing me to change the default sort (top, new, active, etc.). I can change it every time I open the app, but I’d like to be able to set it and forget it and 2) I’m not a huge fan of pinned posts staying at the top of my feed no matter how I’m sorting it, although this would also be solved by hiding already read posts, I suppose.

  • Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ca
    4·
    3 years ago

    Make likes and comments have a stronger effect for smaller communities in the listing algorithm. The top of me feed is just c/technology and c/meme.

  • Sentenial@beehaw.org
    4·
    3 years ago

    On the Jerboa app, swiping right to go back to previous page. And the ability to hide viewed posts on both mobile app and browses.

  • chunktoplane@beehaw.org
    3·
    3 years ago

    I’m on Beehaw with a couple of subscriptions to communities in other instances. I like viewing all of the local Beehaw communities as a “front page”, but I’d like my other subscriptions to show up in that view without having to manually subscribe to all of the Beehaw communities.

  • Bardak@lemmy.ca
    2·
    3 years ago

    I am missing the ability to see other subreddit/communities conversations on the same link.

  • BeardedGuy@beehaw.org
    2·
    3 years ago

    I would love for links to other Lemmy domains to be localized to your home domain by default. It could also include a small button to then switch over to the other instance if you wanted to register a separate account there.