Often, its asked what the fediverse or lemmy needs more of in terms of content, but are there any specific features or functionality you really feel are lacking?
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Multi-communities.
So you can create a list of communities over various instances and show all posts in them as if they were one.This is the big one I want too. I’d love to curate topic based feeds from multiple communities so that other people could subscribe to a single coffee feed instead of 5-8 communities that they had to find themselves. I think this would be particularly useful for new people joining Lemmy, it would save a lot of time if they could just sub to a couple of multi’s and start getting content they’re interested in rather than needing to build their sub list entirely from scratch.
Yeah. Or just personalized feeds that you could share. I’m sure some instances have a great list of communities that their subscribers follow, that isn’t available on/Local. And going to /All isn’t always a good time. If there was like a /All, but maybe with some extra filters, that users could just subscribe to, that would be awesome
I always use /all, out of curiosity what’s your issue with it? I have nsfw hidden, and have been having a good time.
I like /all too, just to be clear. But sometimes I’d like to browse the equivalent of /all, just without politics. Sometimes it’s a little much and the feed could be 70%+ posts about the US election
Plus, some instances seem to have a certain “style” to them. I feel like it would be cool if there was some currated feeds that instances presented, that include content across multiple instances that fit that “style”. Would just be an easier way to explore those niche communities. It would also kinda solve the issue with having fractured communities for the same topic across multiple instances
I got tempbanned for 48 hours in a community recently after not noticing that a mod was objecting to some posts and had deleted a couple until after the ban went in place.
I’d kind of like to have some way to have a higher-priority indicator that a post was deleted or “message from moderator” or something. Preferably a different indicator from just “waiting regular messages”, and a way to view mod warnings or messages from moderators.
I want to be able to put alt text on an image post upload. Accessibility is cool.
It’s an option on lemmy.today when doing an image post.
My guess is that it’s probably just in a newer release, and it’ll show up at the next update your home instance does.
lemmy.today is running 0.19.5.
lemmy.world, your home instance, is presently running 0.19.3.
That’s great news, thank you! It’s something I’ve been asking for since I first began using Lemmy, but there didn’t seem to be interest in implementing it. I’m very glad to see that it’s been reconsidered.
It is implemented on Lemmy 0.19.4. Lemmy.world is one of the few instances still running 0.19.3
Auto mark reply notifications as read.
why? dont you want to read them?
No, I mean clicking on them and reading them doesn’t mark them as read. You have to manually click the “Mark all as read” button or individually click the “mark as read” arrow button on each of the comments.
Show me a list of posts and comments I upvoted.
The API supports that, but not all UIs do yet.
It’s on my “to do” list for my app.
The voyager app has that feature.
Ninja edits. A grace period where you can edit your comment without it showing it was edited. This is usually for typos and formatting mistakes that you notice right after posting your comment. A minute will do.
If anything, I’d love a diff of each edit vs the ability to ninja edit
rather than allowing edits for invisible edits for X minutes, couldn’t your client just delay actually sending it for X minutes allowing to cancel or edit freely until that point?
Gmail allows a similar feature and it seems safer in a distributed system than relying on everyone else to respect what happens after you send a raw message and an edit right after
Implementing this like Gmail would mean doing it server-side. Handling it in the client would be more error-prone, since your device would have to have a good connection in the future, and if it doesn’t, handle retries and make sure never to double-post.
Tagging. del.icio.us style tagging. LJ style tagging. as free-form as tumblr or as structured as AO3’s tagging system. any tagging system. as long as there is tagging system.
Resizeable inline images. At least some way to show them enlarged, the way one can with images that are posted. Kbin had it, and I’m sure mbin does, but the Lemmy Web UI does not, which means manually adding a link beneath the image if you want people to be able to conveniently view images full-size, particularly on touch interfaces.
Tags for posts
More users that aren’t Americans talking about their politics would be nice.
The post you’re responding to is explicitly asking for things that don’t involve content on lemmy, but rather functionality in lemmy.
True. In the grand tradition of the internet I only responded to the headline.
Lol I’ve had the experience of others not from my country telling me what the real politics of my country are because they know better than the people living there, apparently. No thanks.
Some sort of super community that are searchable (i.e. not something Clientside) and span multiple servers. The fragmentation of having the same few communities everywhere is my biggest issue here.
In general I want more and better discoverability of communities anywhere.
more and better discoverability of communities anywhere.
If you haven’t yet, you may want to take a look at lemmyverse.net’s community index/search. They run a spider that crawls the whole Threadiverse and builds an index of all communities on all instances.
Yeah, it’s be great if a community could decide to link its feed with another community, essentially to make them one super-community that share the same content and members. Factorio, for example, has I think three communities. I’m sure there are many worse than that.
The mods should probably consider merging those communities.
[email protected] seems to be the most active ones, they other much less
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option to get notifications when a post or a comment subtree gets a new comment. Especially (but not only) useful for your own posts, and for when you have commented on a topic whereyou are interested in not only the direct responses, but in the overall discussion.
to handle deleted content better: when a post or a comment is deleted, keep them openable, to still have the context readable
When you ask OP a question, then someone says “I’d like to know, too!” and OP only replies to the comment under yours.
Notification whenever there’s something in the mod queue of a board I moderate. At least I don’t see any such notification when using Voyager.
User migration between instances.
Yeah, user migration would be nice.
If it were a shift to simply using a keypair as the basis for identity, which would be a big change, then one could potentially transparently use any instance. That’d be neat from an instance reliability standpoint.
Keypair-based identity would also permit migrating an account from a permanently failed instance. Right now, the home instance is the authoritative source for the account. The problem with that is that if the instance goes away forever, then there’s no authoritative source left to determine who controls a user account. One of the use cases that I’m worried about is a big instance going down because the admins get in a car crash or something, and it killing all the user reputation that’s been built up, because nothing can be done after the permanent failure.
IIRC feddit.uk had a close call like this a while back.
Reddit Markdown lets one use italics inside links, like so:
I like [the author of *A Game of Thrones*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin).However, Lemmy does not presently support this syntax, renders it as:
I like the author of A Game of Thrones.
I frequently want to have partially-styled links like this, particularly italics.
EDIT: Okay, I just discovered that apparently this has been implemented since the last time I tried it. Thanks, devs!
I’d like to be able to mark specific top level posts as ‘don’t show me this again’.
This is available in Lemmy 0.19.5, which almost all instances use except Lemmy.world
