What are the features you MOST miss from Reddit? (Bonus pts for tech dudes-- any idea if they're on the dev- hoz?)
For me-- Lemmy is getting dangerously close to pulling me away from Reddit, and I love it, but still, there's a ways to go in terms of 'critical features,' yeah?
So then, here's two of mine below. What are yours?
I'd still very much like to HIDE threads I'm not interested in. Otherwise, no matter what stream I choose (Subscribed | Local | All), I keep seeing the same topics, and it can be downright difficult paging through streams to see new stuff from more communities. That's not good, frankly.
I very much want the ability to create *more* custom streams. On Reddit, those streams are called "MultiReddits," and let me tell you, they rock! For instance, my one "Series" multi-reddit consists of these:
Not reddit exactly, but RES has the ability to track the amount of karma you've given specific users. It also let you tag users with custom info.
These two features helped me recognize when I'm interacting with people repeatedly, which really helped it feel like a community. Especially useful the bigger the subreddit was.
Thise are good points and I see the appeal, but I like that lemmy doesn't track the total karma a user has generated. It discourages karma farming, people love sering the number go up! I know this isn't that but it still makes me nervous cos it's adjacent to that.
That's not quite what @Stillhart@lemm.ee is saying, though. They're talking about, independently of one's instance or the FV tracking a user's karma for all to see, instead, a specific add-on tool (RES) allows individual users to track karmic interactions with other users.
Personally, I find it quite useful. RES also offered the ability to tag other users with notes, another helpful thing.
Multi-communities are on the radar for the devs. Don't know of any timeline, but it's not an uncommon request and I think the devs appreciate the value of it.
You can hide posts - I believe. There’s a setting in your Lemmy profile to hide read posts. It’s a server side setting so it’ll propagate to any apps. I believe some apps also have their own local “hide post” feature.
Note that the Lemmy profile setting is pretty generous when it comes considering what’s read and what isn’t, but in general it works.
I suggest browsing New, the experience is 100% better.
I believe multi communities have been suggested before. Not sure if there’s an issue for it on GitHub yet.
Hiding threads is a recently added feature in the wefwef client, and I agree that it should be added to lemmy-ui. I think this would be the relevant issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/384
Your two for sure, then probably post flair would be the next for me.
But that's from a user pov, I daresay the people trying to control the fastest growing communities would like some mod tools asap and giving them what they need will make things a lot better for us plebs too.
The rabbit hole of established niche communities to enjoy like AntiMLM or all the ones you mentioned. You can find something and have years of quality content to browse through whether old school celebs, movie details, amas, discussions to mine where people tell amazing stories that got turned into buzzfeed articles
We have good people and good conversation on lemmy but the history, man…
It's good actually that there's no global karma count: it means you won't have the reason to farm karma by reposting/posting bad quality content => more good OC in your feed
We really need better sorting. My feed seems to be dominated by just a few communities rather than having a balance between all the ones I'm subscribed to.
And everything except "new" seems to stagnate too much.
I'd still very much like to HIDE threads I'm not interested in. Otherwise, no matter what stream I choose (Subscribed | Local | All), I keep seeing the same topics, and it can be downright difficult paging through streams to see new stuff from more communities. That's not good, frankly.
You can choose a sorting algorithm. If you sort by "New" you get the new stuff but you can also sort by active, new comments, ... to get variation.
At least in Jerboa, there is the account setting "Show Read Posts".
I hope that's helpful. I'm pretty sure it exists but I haven't found a history function. I'd like to have a list of the last posts I've visited.
Thanks; I understand. My problem with "New" is that it doesn't necessarily mean there's activity yet. Sometimes I really would like to stay with "Active" and just hide stuff I have no interest in.
For me, for now, it's the ability to tap 'back' and be at the same point in the page that I was at when I clicked a link.
Instead, on kbin, it'll often dump me at the end of the page - because I've got a auto load media turned on and the browser doesn't cache the media it seems.
Used to work around this by using the Chrome PWA, and long pressing each link, but kbin no longer lets me log in on Chrome with an invalid csrf error.
With the API just about some, and at least one app similarly almost ready, I am not worried. The ability to post an image in a reply, and it actually works, is a massive improvement over Reddit for me.