What are your complaints about Lemmy? Developers may want your feedback

Please post one top-level comment per complaint. Then others can reply with ideas or existing GitHub issues that could address that complaint. This helps identify both common complaints and potential solutions.

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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. I propose creating a quarterly pinned post on Lemmy asking users for complaints and suggestions. This way, developers can better understand the community’s biggest pain points and what to focus on. The goal is to provide constructive feedback so developers can prioritize the most pressing issues.

Please keep discussion productive and focused on specific problems. Avoid vague complaints or feature wishes without justification. Our aim is to give developers clear insights into issues impacting users most.

hamid,

My biggest complaint is that people drive by downvote my niche community. No one even cares lol its just so sad and pathetic.

BradleyUffner,

Too many duplicate posts because of people cross posting the same content to all the duplicate channels across all the federated servers. I regularly see 5 duplicates in a row while browsing. It’s very annoying.

ToasterOverlord,
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User flair. I know it’s probably not that high on the list for most who might see it as a gimmick, but it’s almost essential for sports discussion to know what team a user supports. I’m sure many other communities have compelling reasons as well.

warmaster,

I need to sub to a bundle of all pc gaming communities out there. A Federated group of communities.

Meta-communities but each community can declare what they are about, so nobody necessarily needs to create the meta-community.

clay_pidgin,

Like opt-in multireddits? That sounds cool.

A bit like recreating the old Yahoo! categorization of the web.

onlinepersona,

Meta: Github has a reaction feature. Issues and feature requests can be sorted by those.

IMO, the devs could pin that information and anybody interested enough that has a github account can react and the devs could see what the community wants. There wouldn’t be a need for a recurring thread.

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    onlinepersona,

    It’s harder to find though. If the threads were on the README or there were an option in the admin panel to add a “feedback” button that takes you to the newest thread, it might be better. I found this thread by pure chance.

    Caboose12000,

    I wish there were an option to see like 80-90% communities I’m subscribed to or following or whatever, and 10-20% posts from communities I’m not subscribed to that are getting a lot of activity. I mostly only want to see what I opt-in for, but a small amount of discovery would be nice

    PumpkinDrama, (edited )

    A new Mixed-feed which merges the Subscribed, Local and All feed based on probabilities customable by the user e.g. 10/40/50 or 0/20/80

    I don’t like the probability part of this solution.

    Caboose12000,

    oh wow that’s actually exactly what I was looking for

    Treczoks,

    When I get replies in my inbox, there is the first icon under it (chain=Link). When the comment it links to is not on the first page, it simply does not go there, it just opens the first page and that’s that.

    twistypencil,

    Every morning I look at everything and have to block about 20 communities because they aren’t English. I filter posts on language, but these have no language set, so they come through. Would be great to tighten up language detection, or community defaults

    onlinepersona,

    They forced “no language set” to always be added to the language filter. I dislike the decision too, but there’s an issue on github about it and people can leave the opinion there.

    OlPatchy2Eyes,

    I’ve forgotten how to find and subscribe to a community on an instance other than the one I’m on. Once I get some time to reassociate myself I’m sure I can figure it out again but it’s not intuitive.

    clay_pidgin,

    I’ve had the same problem. Heck, half the time I go to a community in another instance it tells me I’m not logged in (to that instance), so the subscribe button isn’t even there. I haven’t figured out what I’m doing wrong, yet.

    kalkulat,
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    Not complaint but suggestion: When I get to the bottom of a column of msgs and click the NEXT button … page should scroll to the top!

    commie,

    no RSS support.

    doktorseven,

    Turn off reply notifications.

    pewgar_seemsimandroid,

    communities im interested in are really small

    PumpkinDrama,

    There’s nothing we can do about that in the software. Perhaps you mean to say that you don’t see enough of the communities you are interested in because they are small and get overshadowed by larger communities, and you’d like to see more of them.

    pewgar_seemsimandroid,

    no, the issue i just said in my first comment is my olny one

    PumpkinDrama,

    Weighted Community Subscription

    PumpkinDrama,

    The rank of a post in the aggregated feed should be inversely proportional to the size of the community

    PumpkinDrama,

    Balance Post Scores Based on Instance Monthly Active Users

    onlinepersona,

    I think grouping communities on different instances by name would be one solution. There’s multiple “linux” communities on different instances and one has to subscribe to each on in order to see posts from them. There’s no “I want to subscribe to linux communities on all instances” button / feature.

    hightrix,

    2 feature requests:

    Combine posts from different instances into a single item.

    Allow filtering or blocking by regex. So I can filter all subs that have a word in them or match a pattern.

    DingDongBell,

    Migration of profile (comments etc)

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