Please post one top-level comment per complaint. Then others can reply with ideas or existing GitHub issues that could address that complaint. This helps identify both common complaints and potential solutions.
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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.
Please keep discussion productive and focused on specific problems. Avoid vague complaints or feature wishes without justification. Our aim is to give developers clear insights into issues impacting users most.
This has been suggested many times, but we need a way to link comments and posts in an instance-agnostic way. Getting pulled to a new instance when you click a link is very confusing for new users. Another use case that was common on reddit that won’t work without this feature is you can’t have a stickied post with links to other important posts in the community. People will get pulled into the instance that the linker is in, which means people who follow the link will be logged out (unless their account is on the same instance as OP) and won’t be able to interact with the post.
This isn’t a nice-to-have feature. This is a must-have feature.
Doesn’t this already work with proper links? E.g this link works fine for me in a Voyager and my standard mobile browser too: !polls@reddthat.com
That’s a community, not a post or a comment. Try the link to this post.
Oh gotcha, I was working around it without even realizing it by going to the community and finding the post at the top 🤦♂️
If anyone wants to track this issue https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987
Thank you very much. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Until this is officially added, there are browser addons that will automatically convert links to your own home instance.
Yea LemmyLink gives you something to click on, but it gets slow on long pages because it replaces links themselves.
InstanceAssistant you need to right click, but it’s fast. This one also lets you open a post back on your home instance, for if you already ended up somewhere. I use that more than the link conversion because usually I don’t need to comment on the posts so when I do, I click the button to redirect.
They really need to handle them in Lemmy though
Sure, and that’s great to know and remind people. You and I know how to workaround the issue, but the experience is broken for people who don’t. People who are new to lemmy don’t know that they need to install a browser extension. And that’s why this isn’t an acceptable solution. This needs to be a very high priority, and should be the next thing they work on after 0.19 release.
If there is an extension for it, it means that it can be implemented fully client-side.
If it can be implemented client-side, it shouldn’t be implemented server side. It just makes things harder to scale and more expensive to run.
Maybe this could be a feature request on lemmy-ui, but not for lemmy itself.
There needs to be a way to tag posts, similar to Reddit’s flair system but with multiple flairs.
Also related to the aforementioned, a working search by flair system. Searching posts on a subreddit by flair never worked for me.
Would be interesting to make “flairs” federated so u could give a post a flair from a different community/server. Would be very helpful for categorisation of all Lemmy data as a general information source.
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.
Don’t think there is an automod
Automoderator (these might already exist? I have not tried them.)
awesome lemmy lists a few.
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I did say the complaint:
The mod tools are too basic and barebones
I also gave three ideas that are (1) manually done by mods/admins, (2) manually done by users, (3) automated by mods/admins.
On a small subreddit I moderate, we have automod automatically queue posts at a certain age. If your account is less than a day old, your post is hidden for public viewing while the mods manually approve it. We had to deal with a lot of spam bots and this was a good solution for us.
I believe the way the report feature works on Lemmy is that it sends out to the mods of the community and all the admins. It doesn’t work quite well when I don’t know the rules of a community. “No memes on mondays”, is that really something I (as an admin) should be worried about? That’s not my job.
I hope this clears things up.
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?
You can open the post in a different tab, clicking the middle button or ctrl+click, until they fix this.
Hard to do with a trackpad or phone, (but I can’t remember it happening on my phone.)
This bug is why when I’m casually scrolling I tend to avoid clicking anything that isn’t a meme that can be opened in-line.
For trackpad you can hold Ctrl while you click (or probably cmd on Mac?) to open in a new tab
For the phone have you tried any of the Lemmy apps yet? There’s a bunch of really good ones already
(Your complaint is still a valid bug report, just helping you to work around it until it gets fixed)
I should get a phone app…
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.
Yes yes yes. This is my #1.
I’m using accounts in different instances as multis for the time being. At least I can have different sets of subscriptions. It’s not ideal, but it’s better than nothing.
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My number one desired feature for Lemmy. It’s all I’m missing from Reddit.
If anyone wants to track this issue
A way to group communities would make my moderating tasks so much easier.
We’ve been asking for something like this from the beginning.
Single community mode.
So with federation, each server being able to host an arbitrary number of communities can be a bit much. It makes sense for a site like reddit where it’s just one site. But for a network of sites, hosting multiple communities is really a niche thing, but people do it because why not? The feature is there. But most people spin up a server for a single community and the communities on that server become dead, save for a couple of bigger sites. Having and making known the ability for an admin to spin up a Lemmy instance that’s just one community makes a lot of sense. The server I’m currently using for example is for a diaspora from a single subreddit. Sites like that only really need a single community on them.
What would be different about “single community mode”?
That your local feed is one community, that users can’t create any communities, that the landing page for the server is like HN or some other single community link aggregator site.
I would like an option within settings to get comments sorted by ‘Top’ (or new/hot) when I open any post. Thanks.
Finally, confirmation that I’m not dumb and that this is really missing! Seems very odd that something so basic as sort order has been left out of the settings.
I for one am changing the sort order to Top, manually, on Every. Single. Page.
This is particularly needed because when you sort by Top manually it reloads the page and requires scrolling through the sometimes very long post body again.
Boost (a Lemmy app) allows this and it is a good feature yeah
I thought boosts were basically “+2 Upvote”. Unless maybe that’s just Kbin’s implementation.
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Boost the Lemmy client, not the feature. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
Oof, I should do read more gooder. Thanks lol
Proper cross posts
If anyone wants to track this issue https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3827
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?
I definitely agree with this one. It makes browsing feel very stagnant at times, because unless I go out of my way to view the communities I’ve subscribed to then I don’t really see most of them.
There is a “scaled sort” that will be released in the next version iirc.
When you click on “list of communites”. An option to default to “subscribed”. I never just want to see “local”.
A simple toast message after an applicant signs up, but before the admins approve the application. Currently the applicant is offered no feedback while in this no-person’s land between applying and being approved.
This is very obvious on the confirm email link. Once you log in, the username and password will disappear, but no feedback is sent to the applicant.
I would fix it myself but I don’t know rust or inferno.
Last I checked, the API docs were all just a JS repo. I’d really like to have the standard openAPI specs s well 🙏
Now we are free of reddit we need to separate NSFW and NSFL. Not sure if allowing both on the same post should be allowed but we defiantly need to have both as options.
AFAIK the NSFW is actually part of Activity Pub (e.g. its bigger than lemmy).
To fix this, I think Lemmy should adopt a system like hashtags or flairs. This would allow anything, like spoliers, or a market communities adding #sold, etc. The app displaying the posts can choose what to do with them (e.g. filtering out #nsfl)
And spoilers
Why don’t we just make it Flair’s so it can do whatever is needed now / in the future.
I think the ideal solution would be content warnings like Mastodon has, maybe these convert to NSFW posts for activityPub but within Lemmy surely they can work the way intended.
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?
This would be insanely good. Especially in combination. Combine all fediverse communities on lemmy and view all crossposts as one for example.
Permalinks to comment chains are buggy and need their functionality improved. I spend a lot of my time on Lemmy commenting and conversing with other users. Once a chain exceeds about 8 replies, it becomes increasingly difficult to find the thread with the permalink button from my inbox. This is a problem that some mobile clients have solved, like Mlem, but it should also behave correctly on desktop.
