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.

kn33,

I want something similar to multi-reddits. I want to mix and match communities to my hearts desire into one big feed. I also want to combine duplicate communities from different instances to the same feed.

SinningStromgald,

My number one desired feature for Lemmy. It’s all I’m missing from Reddit.

Die4Ever,
@Die4Ever@programming.dev avatar

If anyone wants to track this issue

github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3950

Spacebar,
@Spacebar@lemmy.world avatar

A way to group communities would make my moderating tasks so much easier.

We’ve been asking for something like this from the beginning.

luthis,

Yes yes yes. This is my #1.

Ddhuud,

I’m using accounts in different instances as multis for the time being. At least I can have different sets of subscriptions. It’s not ideal, but it’s better than nothing.

partial_accumen,

Maybe its just me, but there is one very common thing that happen to me through any firefox (desktop or mobile) and irrespective of any specific lemmy server, and irrespective if I’m authenticated or browsing as public/anonymous.

Lets say I’m looking at the front page of lemmy.world. I’ve reached the bottom of the page (lets call that page #0) and hit the “NEXT” button. The next page loads successfully displaying the next page of items (so now we’re on page #1). I click/tap into an article or comments of one. This loads successfully. When I finish reading, I click/tap the BACK button in the browser. Since I was on Page #1 I would expect to go back to Page #1. Instead I GO BACK TO PAGE #0! So I have to scroll to the bottom of Page #0, hit NEXT again, Page #1 loads successfully. If I were to click/tap into different article or comments, read, and hit BACK in the browser, I would have to repeat the same page #0, scroll to the bottom, hit NEXT to return to Page #1 again.

Any ideas? Is there a different button somewhere in the body of the page I should be clicked a back function instead of using the browser built in BACK button?

PumpkinDrama,

You can open the post in a different tab, clicking the middle button or ctrl+click, until they fix this.

mayo,
@mayo@lemmy.world avatar

Hard to do with a trackpad or phone, (but I can’t remember it happening on my phone.)

This bug is why when I’m casually scrolling I tend to avoid clicking anything that isn’t a meme that can be opened in-line.

Die4Ever,
@Die4Ever@programming.dev avatar

For trackpad you can hold Ctrl while you click (or probably cmd on Mac?) to open in a new tab

For the phone have you tried any of the Lemmy apps yet? There’s a bunch of really good ones already

(Your complaint is still a valid bug report, just helping you to work around it until it gets fixed)

mayo,
@mayo@lemmy.world avatar

I should get a phone app…

hitagi,

The mod tools are too basic and barebones. I’d appreciate if we can get:

  • Post approval system for new or low-karma accounts (it can be karma for local communities)
  • Reporting system with multiple options (very hard to implement in the fediverse as everyone has different rules) so that the reports are sent to the proper channels. Admins shouldn’t have to deal with community-specific rules (for example, “memes only on mondays”).
  • Automoderator (these might already exist? I have not tried them.)

I don’t know if I should split this comment into three or not but they’re some general suggestions to address the complaint of basic mod tools.

otter,
@otter@lemmy.ca avatar

Don’t think there is an automod

PumpkinDrama, (edited )

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    hitagi,

    I did say the complaint:

    The mod tools are too basic and barebones

    I also gave three ideas that are (1) manually done by mods/admins, (2) manually done by users, (3) automated by mods/admins.

    On a small subreddit I moderate, we have automod automatically queue posts at a certain age. If your account is less than a day old, your post is hidden for public viewing while the mods manually approve it. We had to deal with a lot of spam bots and this was a good solution for us.

    I believe the way the report feature works on Lemmy is that it sends out to the mods of the community and all the admins. It doesn’t work quite well when I don’t know the rules of a community. “No memes on mondays”, is that really something I (as an admin) should be worried about? That’s not my job.

    I hope this clears things up.

    wiki_me,

    Automoderator (these might already exist? I have not tried them.)

    awesome lemmy lists a few.

    UntouchedWagons,
    @UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca avatar

    There needs to be a way to tag posts, similar to Reddit’s flair system but with multiple flairs.

    Also related to the aforementioned, a working search by flair system. Searching posts on a subreddit by flair never worked for me.

    muntedcrocodile,
    @muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world avatar

    Would be interesting to make “flairs” federated so u could give a post a flair from a different community/server. Would be very helpful for categorisation of all Lemmy data as a general information source.

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