These threads used to be really useful back on Reddit.
I’m currently finishing off full app translations for the next release along with lots of the usual bug fixes.
What should I prioritise next?
Cheers, Lj
A few features I would love to see:
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A way to view groups of multiple communities in a single feed. Like a multicommunity. A workaround right now is to have multiple accounts, which is less than ideal.
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A way to view content from multiple accounts in a single feed. Like a universal feed.
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An easier way to have the same settings apply to multiple accounts.
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A way to block instances or communities.
Regarding #3: a way to copy/synchronize subscriptions between accounts.
I use a main account and a backup account on another instance in case the main instance is down, so I want those to have the same subscriptions. Manually synching them would be fine (maybe with options like copy everything, mirror the subscriptions, make sure B does not contain the same as A, etc.).
You can filter instances and communities. For clarity, you mean blocking all users from those instances from your feed/comments? Do you also mean blocking all users from a community from showing up? If so that seems harder.
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When browsing “local” or “all”, it would be nice to have some kind of indicator next to the community name to let you know if you’ve already subscribed or not. I browse “all” sometimes looking for new communities to sub to and I click through to find out I’m already subbed often.
I think something as simple as being able to set a different color for subbed communities would work well and be enough to stand out at a glance.
I second this. Especially useful as you could be following an exact or similarly named community and not notice it’s on a different instance.
Definitely, until or if we ever get a way to federate communitied together, it would be nice to see at a glance when you run across one you’re not subbed to and quickly sub to it.
yes i would like this.
fairly minor thing, but can you detect from sync whether a home instance allows downvotes? mine does not, but sync still displays the unusable downvote button on everything
Allow users to switch accounts when making posts or comments instead of having to go back to the home screen
+1! Easy account/instance switcher from anywhere would be so helpful.
Is it not possible to add upvotes history?
I am considering creating multiple accounts to upvote this even more. Ok just kidding, but seriously if this is at all technically feasible it is by far my most missed feature. I often used my upvote history as a sort of very loose bookmarking system. I realize I can save posts, but I usually reserved that for extra special posts that I really needed to save.
The way Lemmy is set up I’ve actually struggled to find a post I upvoted just a couple hours prior. It can be very frustrating.
Yea I would always go check upvotes to find a post from recent, miss that feature
Search function. I get this. I cannot search remote instance toast whenever I try to search
Good spot. Fixed for the next release.
Hiding blocked communities from the ‘Everything’ feed please
Blocked or filtered?
I’ve been ‘blocking’ irrelevant communities in the Everything feed hoping it would do something. Was not aware that there was ‘filtering’ which may actually do what I want. Seems to me that any blocked communities should still never be visible anywhere though?
Adding to blocked will hide them from the everything feed.
Can you confirm they’re blocked here:
Blocking an instance.
Until the Lemmy devs add this you can filter locally
+1 to instance wide blocking, it’s a feature that is sorely needed.
That said, it’s on the lemmy devs’ road map so idk if you’ll want to wait for that… But I’m not sure when they’ll get round to building that feature.
Is there a link to the road map?
It’s that different to filtering an instance?
Filtering occurs on your device.
Blocking occurs before it gets to you.
Block Bots
Please
You can turn off the “show bots” option in Lemmy. I suppose you might have to go to the webpage instead of using Sync, but it’s definitely an option.
Or you can block them like any user you find annoying.
I don’t recall what app I was using before Sync was ready, but it had the option built in. Sync was my favorite Reddit app, and I am so glad it’s available for Lemmy. I’ll check out blocking through the website. Thanks for the heads up!
There’s filtering in app, too, which can help, but if you don’t want to see any bots, I feel like that’s your best bet. (If it’s just one or 2, you can block them from any post without too much hassle either.)
Having webp images/animated images show up in the post feed without having to click on the image
An option to disable the toast ‘you are hiding everything on page 6’ and just continue on anyway, without needing to press retry.
Would like an “overview” when going on mine or someone else’s profile so posts and comments are mixed. Saves me clicking through each and giving better context.
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Nice idea
Something that only makes sense on lemmy and not Reddit, but I think it would be cool to explore a combined account view. With defederation I’ve now ended up with multiple accounts that can all see different things. Could be nice to combine my beehaw and lemmy.world subscriptions view together.
I would love a Scroll to top button when browsing an instance, or to have an option to Subscribe without scrolling all the way to the top. I tend to visit a new instance, check out a couple pages, and then subscribe. But by then the Subscribe button is really far away.
Just tap the top bar?
Thanks! I did know about this one but it only works on communities with short names. If the community has a long name, there is no space left in the top bar that you can tap to scroll to the top. But someone else told me there’s a Scroll to top option in the FAB menu, so I’ve enabled that!
I have a “scroll to top” button in my FAB menu, or in that top bar menu that shows the same thing (and if it’s not visible, there’s a menu that lets you pick what buttons to show)
Edit: This is all in the FAB menu, if you’re showing more actions in the FAB here: Settings shortcut: General > FAB action
in the 3 dot menu in the navigation bar at the top, or even in the bottom-nav bar, in the menu that is the Sync icon (if you’re using that)
Thank you very much! Sorry for replying so late, I clearly need to work out some of my settings because I didn’t know about this option in the FAB and I also didn’t get any notifications for replies to my comment 🙃. I’ve enabled the FAB now with scroll to top option, thanks for taking the time to explain!
