Please post one top-level comment per complaint about Lemmy. You can reply with ideas or links to existing GitHub issues that could address the complaints. This will help identify both common complaints and potential solutions.

I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important to users. I propose creating a periodic post on Lemmy asking users to list their complaints and suggestions. This way, developers can better understand the community’s biggest pain points and focus their efforts accordingly. The goal is to provide constructive feedback so developers can prioritize the most pressing issues.

Please keep discussion productive and focused on specific problems you’ve encountered. Avoid vague complaints or feature wishes without justification for why they are important.

Here is a summary of all the complaints from the previous post from six months ago. It’s interesting to see how many issues have been solved and whether or not developers value user feedback.

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• Instance-agnostic links (links that don’t pull you into a different instance when clicked) • Ability to group communities into a combined feed, similar to multireddits • Front page algorithm shows too many posts from the same community in a row, including reposts • Need to separate NSFW and NSFL posts • Basic mod tools • Proper cross-posting support • Ability to view upvoted posts • Post tagging/flairs and search by flair • Better permalink handling for long comment chains • Combine duplicate posts from different instances into one • Allow filtering/blocking by regex patterns • Avatar deletions not federating across instances • Option to default to “Top” comment sort in settings • Migration of profile (posts, comments, upvotes, favs, etc.) between instances • Mixed feed combining subscribed/local/all based on custom ratios • Categories of blocklists (language, NSFW, etc) • Group crossposts to same post as one item • Feedback for users waiting for admin approval
• Propose mixed feed merging subscribed/local/all feeds • Ability to subscribe to small/niche communities easier • Reduce duplicate crossposts showing up • Scroll to top when clicking “Next” page • User flair support • Better language detection/defaults for communities • Ability to subscribe to category “bundles” of similar meta-communities • RSS feed support • Option to turn off reply notifications • Easier way to subscribe across instances • Default to “Subscribed” view in community list • Fix inbox permalinks not navigating properly • API documentation in OpenAPI format • Notification badges should update without refresh • Single community mode for instances • Reduce drive-by downvoting in small communities • More powerful front page sorting algorithm

  • electricprism@lemmy.mlEnglish
    153·
    3 months ago

    Upvote/downvote system turns content to a “popularity contest”.

    There is no way to categorize content by " funny", “insightful”, " serious", “scientific”, " helpful", etc…

    Steam is a good example of this done right, comments can be given Trophies, misskey does Emoji’s IIRC

    • iegod@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      Decorating comments can stay off the platform, thanks. Comments should stand on their own.

      • Drewelite@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        41·
        3 months ago

        Or simply emoji based “reactions” like in most messaging platforms. This user friendly and immediately understandable system invites many ways to express how you feel about a comment. I think the community would eventually develop a sort of nuanced language to capture how we feel about a comment. Like “we all know what 🏴‍☠️ means.” But perhaps this is too abstract.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Steam is a good example of this done right

      Steam reviews are a spam ridden popularity contest if I have ever seen one. Steam reviews also have a “was this helpful” button where you can say yes or no.

      I don’t disagree with having alternate “currencies” of votes, but the upvote-downvote system works well enough as it is. Yeah, the system breaks if everyone is idiots and votes stupidly, but I don’t reallly… know how you can solve that problem with software.

    • RedStrider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      A pretty big flaw of downvotes is they’re often not used as a “this is incorrect” or “this doesn’t fit with the post” button, but as a “I don’t like you” button.

      • electricprism@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Flawlessly accurate, everyone seems to always work an angle, the current system has no way of navigating this reality.