For me its having a single instance that indexes all the communites to which all other instances can then pull that information from so when I go searching for communities the I’ll have access to every single one with needing to post the entire URL in the search bar
Being able to mark post as read, and have them be hidden from my feed. Or hide posts I have upvoted/downvoted.
Also it would be really nice to have the ability to group communities together from my view point. So instead of a single lemmy feed with all of my subscriptions mixed together I can have multiple feeds each based on say a single topic. Say I have a group called Gaming. and in that I have !gaming@lemmy.ml and !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml !gaming@beehaw.org etc… etc… I think this would also help the issue with having similar communities on multiple instances. For example We have !technology@lemmy.ml !technology@beehaw.org I could subscribe to both and just use a single group to view them both. Instead of having to view one at a time.
Edit,
Oh here is another one. It would be great if lemmy links were automatically converted to your local instance.
For example someone linked this https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827
Sure this works for everyone but it takes you out of your lemmy instance if your not using lemmy.blahaj.zone. I am a user of lemmy.ml, so from my prospective going to lemmy.blahaj.zone doesn’t give me any options to interact with that content. I would need to manually find that post from my instance that I am logged into. From my prospective that link should have been converted into lemmy.ml link and go here https://lemmy.ml/post/1160417 so I can seamlessly interact with it.
Yeah. Joining communities from other instances is a hassle. Kinda puts me off sometimes.
Definitely a big problem. UX can make or break a service. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time though :)
Yeah my #1 issue is how hard it is to find communities to follow. I think it’s why so many communities are just started on lemmy.ml since it has the best chance to get users on there or Beehaw.
Really? I don’t get that. I go to the ‘communities’ button at the top, where they are sorted by population, so it’s easy to find some good ones right away. If I want to search something specific I type it in the search bar and there it is. Is it not that way for you? That seems easy to me
That’s because you joined the largest community. It’s much more cumbersome for smaller communities.
Indeed. The largest weak point for me.
I have to go to third party site where I can see a list of communities, find one, copy some url, go back to my instance and search then paste the url.
At this point I get nothing, or 404, or a nothing found error. Generally this is where it stalls, and i give up and come back half an hour later if I remember and try again.
This time the search may find the community, but has failed to do so several times. Still trying to subscribe to a pathfinder community which I started trying to do earlier this morning
Usually, I search for the URL, but it gives no results. However, in the backend my lemmy instance is downloading a bunch of posts from that instance, and when I look at my list of communities, it’s suddenly there. Awful user experience, but it works. I’m sure this will improve in the future.
That works easily when you want to join communities already on your instance. But if you want to search for other communities you need to go to https://browse.feddit.de/, search for them there, copy the url, then join. Also you cant sort that list by anything, you kinda need to know what you are looking for.
Its…a bit too complicated. I’m sure it will get better with time.
Automatic discovery of communities from instances your community knows about.
That would be awesome and make for a good user experience.
I would love to have tags added that I could search at across instances. So looking up #animalpics might be all the communities that post pictures of animals
Then add to that the ability to follow that tag like you can on Mastadon and that would solve some of the “Super Community” asks.
I’m almost reluctant to post suggestions about what I’d like to see on Lemmy/kbin. It feels kind of entitled, you know? It’s early days and there are obviously lots more important things to get stable and established first. Not to mention the devs are doing this for free and about to come under a lot of pressure. As a dev myself, used to listening to users making subjective demands about the “right” direction to take an app, I fully sympathise :)
That said, my offerings for the suggestion pile would be:
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Discoverability - finding and joining communities isn’t intuitive at the moment. This seems to be a fediverse problem rather than a lemmy/kbin problem, as Mastodon has similar issues. It should be as simple as “search for a topic, hit subscribe”. Instead it involves copy pasting cryptic strings of text, editing them sometimes, then searching, and a bit of hoping. I think this will be the number one issue that impacts adoption.
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UX - more one for lemmy than kbin, but there are improvements that could be made to the UI to improve user experience. A general tidy up to improve visuals (things like alignment of community names without icons, for example), ordering of lists of communities, external links opening in the same tab (appreciate some prefer this, but it tends to lose your place in a feed).For kbin, easy access to your list of subscriptions would be great.
Honestly, most of the UX stuff is low priority compared to getting the apps stable and coping with scale. I hope they figure out those wider challenges though, because there’s definitely a lot of promise here.
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Fix the deletion of comments so that the content is removed rather than just flagged as deleted.
By far my biggest thing is RES style keyboard shortcuts
The second for me is going to have to be automatic instance redirection
These would in my mind get it to feature parity with reddit.
I’d love to see a poll option :)
A small quality of life thing, but some way to mark notifications as ‘read’ automatically, either when i click through to view it in the thread or when i vote on it. Maybe I’ve missed a setting somewhere, but when someone replies and I go to read/interact, the notification number stays there until I manually go and click ‘read’
I have run into the same issue. Although I can’t figure out if that is working as intended or if the server is just overloaded and the read signal just never got processed correctly. As I have had some notifications go away seemly automatically but other notifications refuse to go away until I click read. But maybe I actually did click read and just didn’t realized, I am still getting use to the interface.
I feel like the request in the OP can be fixed by some kind of community digest that gets shared as instances federate with each other, and then on a recurring basis afterwards.
Basically Lemmy needs support for this: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/relay
What does that do?