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.
Jerboa needs a lot of work. Especially on the UI front.
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.
You can get it to open some links by going to app info, by holding the app on the homesceen. Then default links, you can toggle open support links and add the links available from there
thanks. It lists links to 8 instances. For some reason I couldn’t add https://lemmy.world to it though.
I’ll give it a try later, but I think Google broke that in the current version of Android unfortunately. I personally have to use “Better Open With” and some odd assortment of settings to get some control back.
Yes! How do you even search for a community in Jerboa?
To search on Jerboa I’ve been clicking the bookmark bar next to home icon, I can normally find communities this way
Thanks! I actually had somehow missed that.
There’s a communities item, but some instances require that somone searched for that community by url (the full url of the community) on the instance main page before searching for the community in Jerboa will work. Be better if the Jerboa community search just scraped some master list or something.
- Ability to tag certain communities without manually copying the link
- Create custom community collections (Technology collection, memes collection)
- View linked post/comment without changing instance (provided I’m subscribed to that community)
Did you try it recently? I think it looks great now.
I’m using it right now, yes. Unless your referring to the alpha, than not yet.
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.
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.
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.
I want to be able to collapse children comments from the parent.
If I’m not mistaken, you can do that by tapping and holding on the top of the parent comment.
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
Hiding viewed/voted posted is a setting “show read”, un-check it.
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.
I just vote up or down. When you pull down to refresh, they disappear.
Yeah. For now, I figured out that if the post is “text”, I can middle-click it and it opens in a tab. If it’s a “link” post, I middle-click on the comments counter. It sometimes glitches a bit, but it generally works.
On jerboa, I wish there was a way to enlarge images posted in commdnts
This, as well as a builtin browser and a way to view URLs before opening them (like RIF does).
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…
I already saw one user who posted great content including citations – adding user tags is what I miss.
Yes! Everything RES adds would be nice!
- 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 revisiting a 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.
- Horizontally align all names in community lists, regardless of whether they have icons.
- Reduce wasted screen space.
- Allow sorting community lists by name.
- Optionally (by user choice) hide avatars, community icons, and remote images.
- Optionally (by admin choice) mirror remote images, so they can’t be abused by remote parties to track local users.
- Stop auto-inserting new items into the list of posts. (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.)
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.
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)
There is an open ticket or multigroups: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818, so you might want to give that a thumbs up to show interest.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113 issue tracker for multireddits here
Ooh, I definitely agree with multireddits. I’d be super nice to look at certain communities on the same feed without subscribing to them by default
There is an open ticket or multigroups: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818, so you might want to give that a thumbs up to show interest.
Just curious - what sort of keywords would you be filtering out if you could?
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.
On the Jerboa app, swiping right to go back to to previous page. And the ability to hide viewed posts on both mobile app and browses.
I didn’t know how much I did this until I used Jerboa
For me it’s filtering out posts that I’ve already seen. Now I get the same posts over and over again.
Yes agree I so want this.
That’s a user setting
Show Read PostsYea, but I would like an option to also hide posts that I scrolled past.
Thank you so much for pointing this out!
Though I wish there were a way to clear them by clicking a button, so you can get a mix of new and old and manually clear the old. It’s not a huge deal, but I like being able to go back to the things I saw a few minutes ago
I miss Apollo :(
And RiF. The ability to search for subs and create topic groups, etc.
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.
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.
I think this is an interesting observation, is that on the “all” list I guess, correct?
In the all list or even the subscribed list. I find that my home screen is always full of the same communities while some of the smaller communities have new posts with active discussion that I never get shown on the home screen.
I’m presently working on changing the url schema to more match reddit’s,
Eg:
/post/{title}-{title_id}/post/{title}-{title_id}/commentsEtc.
I have all the code changes locally but waiting for a new PSU fot my home server to come in tomorrow for my dev server as i dont feel like setting up postgres etc on my laptop
It really needs an app and page with a decent and clean UI. (most important)
It also needs a more streamline way of finding communities.
It would be nice as well to have better feeds as well.
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.
Hamburger > Settings > [username] settings …
- Default listing type
- Default sort type
Is there any setting for comments?
Not yet. A pull request was accepted just a few days ago so hopefully will be in the next version of the app.
Yuuuup. I found it an hour or so after making this comment. It just wasn’t where I expected at first, which is really on me lol
I’m on kbin, but one thing I miss from RES on desktop is the ability to click and drag to resize expanded images
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.
