Would it be possible to implement Settings -> Show Read as an option in your actual feed next to subscribed/local/all and sort type dropdown for easier access? Basically making the Settings option the default but quickly changeable when browsing.

If I'm in a community (particularly lemmy.world) and I'm inside of a post, there's no easy way to get back to the community. the top level link brings me to the instance homepage, instead of the community. So far the only way I see to do it is to click the tiny link inside of the post that brings me to the community the post was from. Additionally, I don't see an easy way to "know" what community I'm in when I'm inside of the post other than the same thing.

Seems like communities should still show the banner even when in the post, even if it's a comrpessed banner compared to the post list banner.

Someone has probably mentioned it already but Jerboa is giving me this error when trying to use lemmy.world

Any idea why I can't open https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]? Mander.xyz should be federated. I just get 404: couldnt_find_community

Enhancement requests:

1. Please add the little eyeball icon at login, to make the password field readable. That makes it easier to type difficult ones.

2. It would be good to have a search option to search just the current thread, rather than the whole site or whole community.

Thanks!

Lemmy.world: In settings, you can define the default Sort Type for posts. Next to that, there is a question mark that leads to a 404 iso to the explanation.

By the way. It is both impressive and amazing how much the number of active topics has grown here over the last month. Congrats!

Could the Upvoted/Downvoted/Hidden tabs be added to profiles? Would really be useful when searching something you've already seen.

Former reddit user making the switch the best I can.

• Found this guide and made an account on Lemmy.world
• went on my merry way and found several communities here and there
• tried to install the mobile client Jerboa and got blocked because the server is older than the app version — and for some reason the former versions crash on my phone

➡ am I right to assume that the end user risks losing its app mobile access everytime there's a update from the app and / or the server?

• in the end I ended up downloading Thunder which allowed me to login to lemmy.world without version issues

• (low priority) on this page: https://lemmy.world/post/36032 the vote count is all over the place each time I view it while logged in. I promise I'm not such a snowflake that votes really matter to me. I'm more concerned about the way this will impact new user confidence on the platform when their engagement feedback is questionable. Someone that doesn't know any better may assume that the fluctuating numbers they see are faked to improve engagement and retention. Over the hours since I made the linked post, the votes seem to fluctuate between something like 20-25 on some page views, 40-60 on others, some are around 200-220, and others are ranging from 400-420. It seems random and uncorrelated as far as I can tell. Like selecting a reply from someone on my account, and viewing, does not seem to show the count as it was when they replied. I thought maybe it was fluctuating based on Local versus All instances, but that doesn't seem consistent either. Just scrolling down the page and back up to the counter after a few minutes can live update and change the count. I am viewing from a Chromium derivative Vanadium on mobile/Graphene OS (AOSP/live updates and current).

• secondly, I tried reposting a short 32 second mp4 clip and get an error, something about json. Is there a way to do video here? I could try setting up an account on your peertube if that works for cross posting, or I could use my workstation to convert the file to a gif if that will work. What is the best way to post something like this? (https://old.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/comments/yxz1jl/upcycled_soapbox_life/)

• I've tried to post this message a half dozen times here and have had no luck...until now. Okay, this one is probably because I got to this page after clicking the link to here from the link on the following page: https://lemmy.world/post/37906 For some reason this sequence makes this page (I am editing this post on now) act weird. It adds the 'you need to login' banner at first but then it goes away. The prompt to add a comment comes up, but oddly the preview button is missing in this instance. To make this comment stick to the post I had to go to the Lemmy.world homepage and select this post directly. Then I could copy and paste the message, could see the preview button, and posting stuck. If you see this, editing works too,.. apparently.

Issue with lemmy in general: there's no error message when your username is taken, or password doesn't meet the requirements. I had to figure out by trial and error why my application didn't go through

So I'm in the same boat, been trying to figure out the search.. what I've discovered for adding communities, search using the Lemmy world web browser instance, not the app.

Often you will see under the community header [email protected] <this is what you type in the search bar on the web browser for Lemmy.world once you have done that you can return to the app and search again and it should show up allowing you to join.

Sometimes you can long press directly on the link in the community and click 'open in app'

When you reply to a comment and the first thing you press is the "quote" button you get this in the box:
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The "undefined" part of that before the ">" shouldn't be there. Causes a lot of comments to use the quote symbol wrong.

How long should it take for a community to fully federate? There is [email protected] which is missing posts from the last 3 days vs https://lemmy.ml/c/usmlr.

here is just a random list of features/improvements i would like to see

• save sorting preferences in comment sections. right now it defaults to hot.
• improve the hot/active algorithms. at the moment they don't seems to actually show popular posts like their reddit hot/popular counterparts. could be a symptom of being much smaller, but i never see any of the lemmy communities i follow that aren't the biggest ones, and on reddit i can see the small communities i follow.
• better syncing between instances. i also use kbin, and that seems to have issues with cross content at times. i can't see comments sometimes, and votes are completely different on both platforms.
• more granular "Top X" filters
• search by date range, and various other improvements to search. (anything is better than reddit search, but the ability to search this platform is probably more important than people realize)
• more embed integrations for things like gifs and youtube videos. generally, try and keep people on the site.
• open links in a new tab by default. on mobile
• a back button on mobile, not a menu button.
• account/community migration/merging
• community themes, and the ability to turn them off.

this last one isn't really a request, it's more of an ultimatum.

• whatever the fuck new.reddit.com is/does/looks like, DON'T DO THAT. make this site look as much like old.reddit.com as possible and never change that.

Every 4 seconds the tab with the post automatically scrolls up to the post (or to the top comment if ?scrollToComments=true is in the link), making it impossible to read any comment beside the top 5-8. I am using Firefox on PC.

I've been trying to post something in c/casualconversation, but after clicking 'post', it gets stuck - spinning for hours, actually, and my message won't get through.

It could be useful to have sub-communities like Usenet had newsgroup hierarchies. E.g. within c/tools there could be c/tools/drills, c/tools/saws, or whatever. On deaddit (formerly called reddit) they end up making dozens of related top level subreddits scattered around but I think it is good to add some kind of organizational structure.

Did the whole system just go down for a few minutes? I kept getting an API error and it kept switching to HTTP (not HTTPS) ... Seems a bit snappier though now that its back up

Is there a server status web page for future reference?

I've also faced a decent amount of lag and freezing, but so far nothing too dramatic or can't be refreshed. Just kinda wrote it off as growing pains.

Duh. I couldn't log in because I'd entered my password incorrectly.
It would be nice if Lemmy told me, though, rather than just showing me an infinite spinner.

~~I can't log in on Firefox Mac or Safari Mac, but I can log in with Firefox Windows and Jeroba Android. On Mac, when I hit the Login button it just spins. No cookies are being set, and as far as I can tell there's no network activity. My password is less than 32 characters, which I read somewhere can cause issues.

edit: I tried spoofing Windows and Linux User-Agents on the Mac, but it didn't work.
edit2: I can log in from Safari now. Seems to be a Firefox configuration error, but I don't know how to troubleshoot it.~~

Federation issue: local posts not showing when following an account from Mastodon/Calckey/Alloma. To be verified if this is lemmy.world specific

This is a limitation of Lemmy and the devs don't seem interested in adding that feature.

(I'm going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that's ok)

Enhancement requests: Not sure if this is better addressed lemmy-wide or here, but: New users may not know the difference between instances. Would having the "Communities" tab default to All instances be better than Local instances?