Heyo, what little things with Reddit and RES have you been missing with the Lemmy UI?

For me it’s been keyboard post/comment navigation (like RES) and keyboard shortcuts. E.g. I can’t post this submission with ctrl + enter as I could on many other input forms.

    • MacaDaMiAnut@lemmy.perthchat.org
      12·
      2 years ago

      The thing i haven’t worked out yet, is how to get it to open links to lemmy communities by default. For example if I click on a link from community promo it opens in Firefox focus rather than Jeroba. If I search for said community on Jeroba, it usually won’t find it.

    • xavier666@lemm.ee
      8·
      2 years ago
      • Ability to tag certain communities without manually copying the link
      • Create custom community collections (Technology collection, memes collection)
        • mrmanager@lemmy.today
          1·
          2 years ago

          No just the default version. I think it’s pretty great, just some things that I would change. But in general, the app really works.

          • Petri@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            2 years ago

            Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy it exists. Lots of good in this app. There are some key features though that I miss. Specifically the RiF interface for subs search and joining and the sub-grouping feature.

            • mrmanager@lemmy.today
              3·
              2 years ago

              Yup agree, some things can be improved and I’m very convinced it’s being worked on. Many people are working together on the app right now to make it become stellar.

  • koenada@beehaw.org
    19·
    2 years ago

    I think the lack of hiding of previously viewed posts is one of my biggest gripes. I used to use Hide a lot in Reddit but all the alternatives are missing it.

    A few other issues I have:

    • the need to click into threads to open a link is annoying
    • the inability to open comments and links in separate tabs/windows
    • plz1@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 years ago

      Hiding viewed/voted posted is a setting “show read”, un-check it.

      • koenada@beehaw.org
        6·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, I think that a helps a bit but if it requires actually opening the thread, then it’s only a mild improvement. I’d really prefer mark as read or hide without opening the thread (there’s a lot of threads I have no interest in reading but are hanging around the front page).

        I appreciate the suggestion though. It does help a little.

    • Zoop@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yes, I agree! I’d also love it if, when you click a link, it shows the full true link and then let’s you choose whether or not you want to go there, like RiF does.

      That way if someone posts a link behind some text, you have a better idea of what you’re getting into before it just pops up on your screen. Could be what they said it was, could be a Rick Roll, could be awful brain-scarring porn like Leon Party…

  • ono@lemmy.ca
    12·
    2 years ago
    • Make remote community discovery more intuitive.
    • Make remote community subscription more reliable.
    • Make navigation & reading work without javascript.
    • Make dark mode available when not logged in.
    • Indicate which comments are new when returning to a recently-visited post. (old.reddit.com does this if you have premium.)
    • Display user and community names with the domain part dimmed (and maybe on a separate line), for less visual clutter at a quick glance.
    • Display user names without prepending an @ sign, for the same reason.
    • Allow sorting community lists by name.
    • Horizontally align all community names in lists, regardless of whether they have icons.
    • Reduce wasted screen space.
    • When reading a post/comment on any random instance (perhaps found via web search) make subscribing & finding that post on the user’s home instance a one-click operation, so they can reply.
    • Optionally hide avatars & community icons.
    • Optionally (admin choice) mirror remote instances’ images, so they can’t be abused by remote parties to track local users.
    • Optionally (user choice) disable or replace remote images, for the same reason.
    • Stop auto-inserting new items into a list that’s being viewed. (It causes what I’m reading to suddenly shift or disappear off-screen, which is disorienting.)
    • Make buttons work reliably. (Clicking them sometimes applies a border without doing anything else.)
  • rideranton@fedia.io
    10·
    2 years ago

    I’m on kbin, but one thing I miss from RES on desktop is the ability to click and drag to resize expanded images

      • Druidgrove@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        We have been spoiled by both! I use the Melm iPhone app which is still in beta, and there are a TON of features I want… which I realize was just Apollo! It stinks that the development of new features we enjoyed with Apollo is kind of back at square 1 with new apps.

  • ultraHQ@beehaw.org
    8·
    2 years ago

    I’m presently working on changing the url schema to more match reddit’s,

    Eg:

    /post/{title}-{title_id}

    /post/{title}-{title_id}/comments

    Etc

  • Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ca
    8·
    2 years ago

    Make likes and comments have a stronger effect for smaller communities in the listing algorithm. The top of me feed is just c/technology and c/meme.

  • EamonnMR@lemmy.sdf.org
    7·
    2 years ago

    I’d love a way to browse other instances “local” view the way I can browse my own home instance.

    Incidentally, this is also a missing feature on Mastodon.

  • ZapBeebz@beehaw.org
    7·
    2 years ago

    So far everything is just a case of getting used to it for me. I’m using the Jerboa app, and the two biggest improvements I can see right now are 1) allowing me to change the default sort (top, new, active, etc.). I can change it every time I open the app, but I’d like to be able to set it and forget it and 2) I’m not a huge fan of pinned posts staying at the top of my feed no matter how I’m sorting it, although this would also be solved by hiding already read posts, I suppose.

    • Scott@lem.free.as
      7·
      2 years ago

      Hamburger > Settings > [username] settings …

      • Default listing type
      • Default sort type
    • TheMonkeyLord
      1·
      2 years ago

      Under user settings in Jerboa you can change default listing/sorting type, though it doesn’t actually seem to do anything. You can also hide read posts

      Edit: It may have updated and now the sorting on launch seems to respect your settings

  • GhostMagician@beehaw.org
    7·
    2 years ago

    Keyword filtering from RES.

    Also, equivalent of setting up and saving multisubreddits, which helps for accessing communities that are the same but across different instances.

    • aes @beehaw.orgOP
      7·
      2 years ago

      Ooh, I definitely agree with multireddits. I definitely want to be able to look at certain communities on the same feed without subscribing to them by default

    • LedgeDrop@beehaw.org
      5·
      2 years ago

      Oh, I like it! A multi-subreddit should be a must-have for a federated community like Lemmy.

      It would create a simple way to lump together all these Gaming group (from different servers) into a single view. Such a feature would improve visibility and also (hopefully) reduce the amount of noise/duplicate content (ie: one trailer being reposted to each Gaming channel/server)

      • GhostMagician@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 years ago

        Very common one I did would be something I wanted to avoid spoilers for. So example would be blocking “House of the Dragon” and “Fire and Blood” so I didn’t accidentally see any spoilers from random posts whether it be from before the episode aired, or from book readers who had read everything.

        Particularly useful for anime where most stuff is based off the manga, which manga readers are sometimes really eager to give hints at. Like “oh don’t be attached this character hehehe”. “Oh you’re in for a twist soon.”

        And of course games, I’m not often getting games when everyone is talking about them the most. So I prefer to block out stuff so things can remain fresh when I get around to it.

    • Dima@lemmy.one
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I hope QuantumBadger goes through with making RedReader compatible with Lemmy

  • GhostCowboy76@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    A “Mark Read on Scroll” feature. I’ve noticed each time I’m entering a previously viewed community I have to scroll past the stuff I’ve already seen. This could be user error as I’m fairly new to this.