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I’m working on a free image gallery client and would like your ideas (self.lemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by SargoDarya to c/[email protected]

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The idea for me is to build a client which is solely focused on media consumption.

Currently the client is working completely without a separate backend, storing everything locally and these things are already implemented:

Search communities
Show recently visited communities (split by safe/nsfw)
Login to view NSFW communities
Different sort modes
Link extraction from Posts for albums
Saving posts locally (without images)
Show saved posts by community or all
URL mappings to remap from full URLs to embed URLs per provider
Keyboard navigation (Prev/Next Post/Image, Save Post)

These are planned additionally:

Proper instance selection / Login
See (follow) user posts (F keybind)
Block user posts (B keybind)
Show original post (O keybind)
Auto advance images (adjustable time)

Probably needs a nicer web UI as well but I plan to push it live this weekend to get some early feedback. Do you have any more suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Interesting. I want to poke around with CSS styling and JS to make @FloatingIsFun work more like Misskey, Pixiv, or certain Tumblr themes: Multiple columns of images to fill the page width, filters to view only a community's posts that have a certain tag, and community-specific header images and color styles.

I know I run a Kbin magazine, but it looks best in the mobile Lemmy browser Voyager by @aeharding . The way it loads full-size images and videos without bothering with thumbnails looks really good.

I'm a longtime Feedly user too and I've gotten used to its keybinds: J/K for next/previous, L to save, and V to open in a new tab.

Oh yeah, Lemmy and Kbin could use a standardized way to cite the source for an image. When I post images, I actually use Kbin's "add new thread" page and add a source link in the post body. We couldn't do that on Reddit. I try to make a source link automatically with this Google Sheet I made, but built-in scraping of the source page's XML would be cool.

[–] SargoDarya 2 points 1 year ago

Those are certainly some interesting things you mention. Multiple image columns might be an interesting idea and potentially something for a different viewing mode. I’ll definitely take a note about that.

For keybinds I thought about making them configurable, as they already map to specific actions anyways. For now they’re:

Q: Previous image in album or if beginning previous post E: Next image in album or if end next post A: Previous post E: Next Post S: Save Post

I‘m still considering if I want to add mod tools as well but for now I’ll focus on normal users.