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I'd like to invite you all to share your thoughts and ideas about Lemmy. This feedback thread is a great place to do that, as it allows for easier discussions than Github thanks to the tree-like comment structure. This is also where the community is at.

Here's how you can participate:

  • Post one top-level comment per complaint or suggestion about Lemmy.
  • Reply to comments with your own ideas or links to Github issues related to the complaints.
  • Be specific and constructive. Avoid vague wishes and focus on specific issues that can be fixed.
  • This thread is a chance for us to not only identify the biggest pain points but also work together to find the best solutions.

By creating this periodic post, we can:

  • Track progress on issues raised in previous threads.
  • See how many issues have been resolved over time.
  • Gauge whether the developers are responsive to user feedback.

Your input may be valuable in helping prioritize development efforts and ensuring that Lemmy continues to meet the needs of its community. Let's work together to make Lemmy even better!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Actual functional user blocking. I don't want users being able to see my comments and reply to them when I have blocked them and I was totally surprised when they did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

When I go to Lemmy, I'm not logged in until I click on a post to read, what's up with that? I used to stay logged in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Would love to have more freedom with relation to reply notifications. Such as muting a comment or a post.

I believe there’s been github issues opened and closed for atleast the past year but it seems to not be a priority for the devs. If I had the disposible income to put a bounty on the feature I’d pay for it but well I’m poor as heck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

There's currently no way to delete an uploaded image.

That's especially problematic since pasting any image into a reply box auto-uploads it. So if your finger slips and you upload something sensitive, or if you want to take down something you uploaded previously, there's no way to do it.

What should happen is whenever you upload an image, the image and delete key get stored in some special part of your Lemmy account. Then from the Lemmy account management page you can see all your uploaded images and delete them individually or in bulk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

There is, since version 0.19.4

There is a new functionality for users to list all images they have previously uploaded, and delete them if desired. It also allows admins to view and delete images hosted on the local instance.

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

I remember there was a lot of drama around this, I can't believe it's still an issue.

Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I think multi-communities (which have already been improved for funding) will push Lemmy forward big time. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I really wish Lemmy had tags like RES

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)

A mute community in addition to block community. There are communities i may not want to see in my feed, but I might want to look at them. Currently my only option is to block and then offi want to check them out i have to unblock.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It would be nice if communities that are similar enough could "share" a comment thread, so you don't end up with comments scattered over many different communities for the same link. The mods could toggle something in the settings and say "This other community is good and we'll be OK sharing posts with them". You also wouldn't have to explicitly crosspost.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Consolidated View:

  • Create a "Consolidated Thread" view that aggregates comments from all related posts into a single, cohesive conversation.
  • Provide an option to switch between individual instance views and the consolidated view.

Merge comments from similar posts into a single view

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

User-Driven Linking:

  • Allow users to suggest links between related posts, with a voting system to confirm relevance.
  • Create a "Related Discussions" section for each post, populated by user suggestions.
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

There's got to be a better way to do cross posts. When people/bots crosspost, my "All" feed gets cluttered with multiple copies of the same post. Maybe something like a drop-down showing all the instances and communities it's posted to.

Edited to fix autocorrect...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I don't know if this was requested before but I really want there to be a way to see all comments throughout crossposted threads. It sucks that there are so many crossposts that have like 1-2 comments each. I want to see all discussion about a post at the same time.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I've used Lemmy for a while and just recently felt like I was missing a feature for the first time: I'd love if there was some kind of mod mail functionality. One of my posts was removed by a moderator and I wanted to ask why, but I obviously didn't know which mod did it, so I just randomly messaged someone from the list. There should be a more "elegant" way to do this, like some kind of functionality that allows a user to send a message directly to the community or the moderation team itself.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We are currently missing the ability to report user accounts.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Option for default comment sorting. you can change the default sort only for posts, but not for comments, comments always sorted by Hot, and you have to manually change it each time you open comments.

In Voyager you can set this up, but it would be useful in the webui as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Every day for the last 15 months I have been hitting Top on every. single. post. Every day I hope that tomorrow will be the day this completely obvious missing feature has been added.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be nice if there was a way to handle instance/user migrations. If an instance gets their domain name taken away, there's no way AFAIK for the admin to say "Here's our new location, with a verifiable signature". Likewise there's no way for a user AFAIK to move their account with a verifiable signature that the new one is still them. Ideally this could all happen automatically with signatures getting synced automatically and all that.

I'm sure it would be a lot of work and no idea if ActivityPub would get in the way, but it would give people a lot more assurance that they didn't pick a server that will screw them over by going down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no idea if ActivityPub would get in the way

It totally would. In ActivityPub, all objects (like users and posts) have an identifier that includes the domain name. For instance, your ID is https://midwest.social/u/m_f. That's what identifies your user. There is no way to change an ID - the point of an ID is after all that it stays the same and still refers to the same entity. This is a pretty serious limitation of ActivityPub right now unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think there's a FEP that could (or fixes) this. To my understanding ID can be any URI, so there are better ways. I guess it's hard because it would brake a lot of stuff or how mastodon is build.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Any FEP trying to fix this will be incompatible with existing instances, so I don't really see how it's gonna work.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would love to be given a few minutes worth of grace to edit some minor spelling and/or grammar mistakes once I've hit the "post" button.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

that or the ability to see what was before the edit, but I assume that has already been discussed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Show saved items in order they were saved, not original post date. If I come across and save something from 6 months ago, when I go back into saved items, it's sorted way back i stead of being the first item in the sort list.

This was supposed to be fixed in a server update, but doesn't seem to be.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

My biggest issue is that when I post, I'm torn between sharing in the community of the largest instance or in the instance I prefer the most. Posting in the largest instance offers more visibility for my post, but it feels like I'm not supporting the instance I truly like. The communities are too fragmented.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don’t see it mentioned, so maybe it’s not a popular thing, but the ability to tag a post. Often time this can be annoying, but it can help in filtering posts in certain types of communities.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We need an RSS feed for saved posts, but the Devs seem to think it would be a privacy issue. Now idk what kinda Fucked up porn They're saving on Lemmy but I just want to read the articles I save on here in my RSS reader.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Just implemented it for fun on my instance (lemmings.world). Sadly you need to be a user of that instance for it to work. When logged in you go to https://lemmings.world/rss/init, afterwards a link is shown (among other information) that looks something like https://lemmings.world/rss/4e6490fe0613f6e2e03cd420f71df14476e769b57604652921c1a7b2150f0888 - that is your personal RSS feed of stuff you saved with a URL that cannot be guessed automatically (the hash is entirely random).

It could be made to work for all instances, but that would take me a while. You can also ask the admins to install the app on their website (it's open source and can be found at https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyPersonalRss).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Cool feature!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Give Mods and Admins the ability to move posts to another community.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Help promote longer discussions by using the sidebar to display comments initially sorted by "New". Give options to filter comments by Community, Local, Subscribed, Mod View or All.

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