We’ve got a lot of Lemmy app options rolling out soon—it’s exciting!
What do you wish was better about the current way you browse Lemmy, and what features do you hope to have down the road?
- Order comments by hot/new/votes
- make it really obvious how to sign-up and sign-in
- linking between feddit should not open an in-app browser
- highlight comments/posts your account has made
- allow us to block all NSFW posts from the all feed
- allow us to post GIFs from the Google keyboard
Being able to jump back a page without snapping to the top is the only issue I have with the PWA set up I’ve got. Otherwise it’s great as is.
Honestly, Memmy works pretty amazingly… I was surprised, because last time I tried it it was… empty. It’s REALLY good now.
I’m mostly waiting for marking posts as read as you scroll by and hiding read posts (but only in your feed). I think this is especially important with the federated content that might come in later than when I “scrolled past” the point in time it would appear in my feed.
“come in later”? You want a feed that live updates?
No.
But say, I’m currently looking at my Subscriptions sorted by New. I doomscroll until I see stuff that is 10 hours old. While I do that posts could come in that are 5 hours old. But the next time I doomscroll I wouldn’t go that far back because I think I’ve already seen stuff that old.
If what I have seen already was automatically marked as read and not showing for me, I would still see the 5 hours old stuff because that wouldn’t have been marked as read.
keyword filters, so you can avoid posts about “trump” or “hitler” and other things that annoy you
I’d like some tablet/large screen optimizations now that I have a Pixel Fold! Sync for Reddit and Infinity are example apps that do it right in my opinion
For web: better theming, for app: i18n, for both: much smoother subscription to other instances.
Multi-lemmy. I really miss having my custom feeds made with the multi reddit tool,.
This would be so useful to group related communities from different instances as well.
User option to block Lemmy server/instance
- Ability for a user to essentially block an entire servers posts. I don’t want to rely on my admin to block a server. I want the option to block all posts and the option to block all posts and comments. (Block or hide is fine)
Quick Scroll
- Button to scroll to next top comment that can be held to scroll to previous top comment (like apollo has)
Mute words
- Ability to block/mute words so for example i can block all communities with the word meme in it because i want to browse All to find new communities but i never want to see meme communities/posts.
Notes
- Add custom notes/tags to a user/community that can be color coded
Embed youtube/invidious/peertube that pins on scroll
- When opening a thread with a link to a youtube/peertube/inividious link have it embed and play in the app and when you go to the comments have the video stay pinned on top so you can keep watching while scrolling through the comments
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Subscribe to whole instances, not just individual communities, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
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Easily block communities from the ALL feed, without 3 or 4 clicks
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Apart from the ones already mentioned,
- being able to collapse all threads in a post to only show parent-level comments
- keyboard shortcuts ala RES (esp the J-K navigation)
- more themes (the default ones suck)
- more image improvements
I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but the biggest feature for me would be an automatic redirect to your current instance if you click on a fedi link to another instance
It’s annoying when someone links a post from another instance, and I click the link but I can’t interact since I’m not logged in on that URL
Basically, if you’re on one instance and click on a link to a post from another instance, it should open that post on your current instance. The desktop version of Lemmy needs this too.
This is really my biggest point of contention with the fediverse atm. Needs to be easier to interact across instances without copying, pasting, editing, or typing in URLs
When using lemmy in the browser, there are some userscripts that do this.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcherbut I would love to see this as sort of default behavior, so that the user indeed does not have to “fight” the system to get it to subscribe properly.
The ability to copy the URL of a video so I can paste it to NewPipe - or a setting where I can choose to use YouTube or NewPipe all red the time.
Off the top of my head…
- Easy user following
- Auto markdown
- Download image/video
- Share as image
A wishlist for two categories, in each sorted from very important to less important:
Technical:
- Open all links relative to my home instance (I want to stay logged in)
- Make community discovery easier and consistent. One method, which always works.
- Move account to another instance, complete with subscriptions and notifications when older comments receive replies
- Clarity: I’m often confused in which community a post lives, or where it originated. Or what a user’s home instance is. It is fine to display relative information (Post X from instance Y as seen from instance Z), if clearly less emphasized
- Indicate who can see a post or comment. From what instances is that content visible?
- Display the same community stats regardless from which subscribed instance they are viewed (subscriber count varies wildly)
View:
- Allow to hide selected posts
- Expand and collapse images in threads
- Lock my feed: Please don’t add posts to the top while I’m browsing the thumbnails at the bottom
- Display post/comment live preview below input field, so I can see the preview while editing. Currently I must switch view.
- Search within a community (without leaving the community page)
- Customize your feed: Control how much of each community is displayed (I want posts from some small communities to always show, and posts from others to only show rarely, or only those with votes/comments)
This was meant with the web/browser in mind. I expect apps and clients to work similarly, unless a characteristic necessitates exceptions (screen size, touch, …).
Ability to choose the default sort for comments