Are there features you are looking for out of an extension?
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2023
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Some that come to mind:
- show hide attached images
- adjust attached image size (RES allows a drag to expand/retract)
- keyboard shortcuts to navigate posts/comments
- keyboard shortcuts to upvote
- hasn't come up yet, but show/hide videos within the post feed
I'm really just using RES as a reference but it was a great extension.
RES as an extension that is separate and distinct from reddit itself is necessary because the community has no way of improving the reddit web-ui directly. I'd hope that anyone considering working on an enhancement suite extension for Lemmy would also consider working with the Lemmy devs directly to just add the stuff they want into Lemmy, either as default features or options that can be enabled per-user. Ideally I think we'd want the Lemmy web-ui to be good on it's own, not require a browser extension to suck less.
As another commenter noted, there's already a GitHub issue for some of the keyboard shortcut stuff you're interested in.
That's a very good point. I have to keep in mind that this project is open source and that extensions shouldn't even be necessary. That is, of course, if the maintainers of the codebase accept the pull requests.
Yeah, there can always be a place for plugins or even extensions in cases where some people want something but the maintainers don't, and no configuration option can be agreed on.
My only point was that an extension would hopefully be a secondary approach balanced by engagement upstream. I could see a useful extension acting as an R&D platform to try ideas that are eventually bound upstream. Or I could see one bundling up ideas that failed to get adopted upstream but still have some passionate community around them and providing a way for people to use good work that can't get up streamed for whatever reason.