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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Some sort of automatic down-sampling feature before posting, for images, video and maybe audio.
DeltaChat has this built in to minimise file-sizes before posting.
Something like this would reduce plenty of bandwith/processor use/carbon etc. Increase speed of loading pages.
With an option to click to see the original media too.
I’m all for this.
It would be really nice on less powerful hardware too. One picture gallery can eat all my RAM real fast.
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.
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.
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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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.
Being able to actually migrate an account, not just settings and follows etc but your post and comment history etc. All data
Make it easier to join.
Back-up/failover instances for communities and users.
Every user and every admin of a community should be able to assign a failover instance in case the main instance goes down temporarily or permanently. All relevant data (posts, upvotes, settings, password hashes, mod log) would be permanently syched so you could just switch over in case of a downtime and most importantly, no content would be lost.
If you implement a feature to set the failover instance as your new main instance, that would also implicitly allow you to migrate users and communities elsewhere.
Add an equivalent to multireddits. I miss that so much
That can be done client-side. I don’t use the feature, but from a brief glance, it looks like the Android client I use when I’m on a phone, Eternity, supports it.
Probably slightly less efficient than supporting it at the API level.
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’d love to see something similar to reddit enhancement suite.
RES is huge. Any specific must-have features?
More users that aren’t Americans talking about their politics would be nice.
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.
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.
UI improvements.
Such as?
UI is not good.
I think it should be like Photon.
I’d like to be able to follow users like microblog platforms, which would enable mastodon content to show up in an organic-feeling way on Lemmy. This would make it so I don’t need to keep mastodon around to see anouncments from like two people and it would just overall improve interoperability between different feddiverse platforms.
Add technical depth by allowing communities to select a default “sort by most recent comment” like a forum. This is the key difference between ADHD content that focuses on time versus forums that focus on depth. Then find a way to integrate these deep threads into the Allfeed. Bridge the gap between forums with depth and PITA user names versus link aggregators with ADHD but recent info and broad scope.
Is this not what the “active” sorting does?
To some extent yes, but it is not a default option at the community level. The scope is only as a user setting overall.
I’m abstracting to analyze a question of why link aggregators do not naturally displace very technical niche forums. I don’t believe that expecting the user to alter their overall sorting method is effective here. Nor do I believe that the pinned thread is an effective prioritization method to promote a more technical niche. In my opinion, the method of prioritization and promotion needs to be organic and democratically sourced as a fundamental mechanism that drives community behavior.
The part that I cannot intuitively work out is how to integrate the old niche threads with the aggregated feed in a way that is nonauthoritative or forced or feels like a narrative agenda. How to both enable content discovery while enabling depth is an interesting challenge that could IMO surpass any current or previous link aggregation platform’s functionality and use in such a way as to antiquate all previous platforms.
Linking one of the AO3 tag tutorials because tagging? is extremely powerful.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/41214669?view_full_work=true
Being able to block link posts by host. It is the one of the reasons I use mbin more than lemmy.
