I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on opportunities to improve!
For people to stop using downvoting as a method of disagreeing and only for content that is not appropriate.
As someone who runs a community, the ability to disable downvotes and have more customization within that Community would help a great deal.
I also wouldn’t mind the ability to post something like a Delta on a comment to show a changed view or something.
If the goddamn TLDR bot updated regularly and if it appeared on every post with an article within 5 min.
Better timelines. Currently there’s a lot of content buried which makes it really hard to create consistent cultures.
As in better sorting options?
To change the default for comment sorting, YES PLEASE.
I am having to click “Top” for every single post. It’s become a reflex but seriously this is crazy. It feels like I must be doing something wrong but I have looked everywhere for the setting and there isn’t one. I’ve assumed this is just an oversight that will soon be fixed, but it never is.
I just don’t get it.
Are you using a specific lemmy app? I imagine that many apps have this
Using the app that is the vanilla website.
Yes the front page sucks no matter what sorting option you use and it’s not because the posted content is shitty its just sucks in the way it presents it.
To be honest, I still don’t really know the difference between ‘hot’ and ‘active’
Wish those had more accurate descriptors.
It’s explained here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Basically, Hot and Active show posts based on upvotes minus down votes, with a time decay so older posts rank lower.
Hot has the time decay based on created time, so you’ll basically only see posts from the last day or so.
Active has the time decay based on the most recent comment, so if someone comments it can bring an old post back to the top.
There is also Scaled (if your instance has updated to 0.19), which is like Hot but posts from communities with less active users will get a boost so you don’t miss out on posts in small communities from being drowned out by big community posts with lists of upvotes.
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a culture of providing summaries for links
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fewer videos and images
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ability to crosspost comments or textposts from within the fediverse
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reading lists beyond just subscribed (a la “multireddits”)
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the ability to tag other users a la RES
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user flair for munis
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better mod controls (eg. make it easier to add or remove additional mods, automoderation, more streamlined reporting, federate moderation more effectively)
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better control of a user’s own content (eg. being able to delete posts effectively)
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ninja edits for tupos
Where are you seeing videos? Or are you talking about links to YouTube?
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Instance owners ought to clean up all the unused communities that were created during the Reddit exodus by inactive users/mods only wanting to hoard the names. They’re basically redirecting traffic from actual communities and into a void.
I wonder how often it happens that some user has a hobby/interest, and go search for a community for this interest. They’ll find an empty community and leave without posting.
My theory is that if the dead communities didn’t exist, people who actually care about the topic would create their own active communities.
When you search for a community in lemmy, by default, the results are ordered by subscribers. If there is an active community on the topic, it will appear above any of the others, so the only way people are finding empty communities is if all of the communities are empty
Just general stability things. Images not loading. Comment counts appearing but not being able to load. No handling for blocked posts via direct link. No handling for hidden posts via direct link when hiding already-viewed posts. Not being able to see your own posts when hiding already-viewed posts. Upvoting or downvoting a post clears the in-progress comment box.
I feel like the web interface could be better. I would like to be able to hide posts, use keybindings to navigate, and generally the overall performance could be better. But we have third party clients, which is a huge plus!
Fixing that bug where if you do something like upvote someone while typing a comment, your comment gets deleted.
Stop making “Undetermined” the default language for posts and comments, so my feed stops getting spammed by foreign language posts that didn’t bother to correctly tag themselves.
Allow blocking entire instances (I think this might be in the latest update which my instance hasn’t yet migrated to?).
Beyond that, the only thing I really miss from reddit is being able to open the comment thread for a post and read literally hundreds of comments. Gets a bit underwhelming seeing so many front-page posts with 1 or 2 comments.
I’d be ok with language tagging being mandatory.
I would like different types of nsfw tagging and categories like i don’t wanna see porn but if it is a gruesome article or fucking insane story or question or pics i would like to have a way to acess them without seeing porn.
The ability to easily hide individual threads.
Like, I’ve seen “Wendy’s wants to go to Uber style pricing”, I want the ability to mark it as “read” and set jerboa or lemmy.world in my browser to “show unread” and still have the ability to view my “read” items later if I want to refer back to them or whatever.
It would drastically improve my mobile experience and greatly improve my PC experience as well.
Along similar lines: using Jerboa, if I click on an image or link, I’d like the corresponding post to be marked as read. Sometimes I don’t feel like visiting the comments but I’ve seen the content so it shouldn’t show as unread.
Interesting, mine (Jerboa application) seems to do this already. I’ll have to check my settings and test out a few posts to see if it actually does though.
EDIT: nope! Don’t know what I thought I saw but it does not do that.
Lemmy needs more small communities.
As someone who started and is extremely active in a small community, I find Lemmy actively hostile to the point where I’m considering closing up after less than a month.
The number of indignant replies and comment-free downvotes we get inundated with continually is… disheartening.
People want content, but actively detract from any content that doesn’t cater to them. It’s hard to take.
Lemmy is the small community lmao
That’s not exactly what I meant. Aside from a decent Trekkie presence, I don’t think we’ve seen smaller Reddit communities leave for Lemmy.
Oh sorry, I knew what you meant. I was just being tongue in cheek haha. But you’re right, we don’t have any niche presence and that’s what made reddit what it was.
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I still think this is the biggest issue with lemmy right now. There should be a way for communities that are identical across instances that can connect where a post would be cross posted and connected with links to each instance it’s connected with.
More global presence. Too US centric to my likings.
Really?
I see so much more non-US content here than I ever did on Reddit.
On Kbin, browsing through the all tab, great majority of posts are related to US or some topic in the US.
Join some communities on instances from other countries.
More users and more niche communities
