I made this post mainly as discussion and suggestion for mods and posting people.
Browsing through this community (and before that, r/unixporn or r/usabilityporn on Reddit) feels a bit like wandering through a shopping catalogue. Sadly, a bad organised one.
Sometimes, I just enjoy looking at the awesome configs of other users and see what some WMs or DEs (or, to be more precise, their users!) are capable of, without any intentions to replicate it.
It’s more of a “Oh, that looks neat, take my upvote!”, but not much more. Similar to an art gallery.
And sometimes, I use it to find some inspiration and to recreate/ apply it on my setup.
In that regard, I always have a hard time sorting out or finding the right stuff.
Say, for example, if I want a good looking KDE setup, and I search for “Light mode”, “Minimalist”, “Elegant”, or some other term, individually, I get random stuff like an anime hyprland configuration or someone posting their Cinnamon setup, because it had above keyword in the title.
Meanwhile, the exact thing I searched for is named “Here’s my comfy KDE style” and isn’t listed in my results.
On Reddit, it was just as bad. And it’s not because of the search capability, it’s because of missing information.
If I search for all keywords together, I of course don’t find anything because it’s too restricted.
A question mainly for the mods: For future search accessibility, what do you think about making a rule (or, at least suggestion) to include category key words (for example “Hyprland, neon, anime, modern, dark mode, minimalist”) aswell as the exact things used (icon theme, dotfiles, etc.) in the description?
In that way, we maybe could make an automated website/ category catalogue where we can filter and search better, where we can search hierarchically, e.g. “Desktop Environments > Plasma > Light mode > Modern” and see all posts linked there.
Another idea would be to link them in the sidebar, e.g. “List of Light KDE themes” or “Captppucin window managers”.
What do you think of that?
I think that’s a cool idea, but I don’t like it for unixporn. I always feel the *porn communities are just what you’re seeing – people sharing their pretty thing. Maybe they give details, maybe not. Maybe they interact and chat with the community, maybe not.
Understandable.
I personally often use Unixporn similar to how other people use Pinterest when they want to get inspired for decorating their room.
I really can’t deny the accusation that this community is responsible for “some” of my DE-hops 😅