Carrying on an old tradition. What features / issues should I work on next?
These threads used to be really useful back on Reddit.
I'm currently finishing off full app translations for the next release along with lots of the usual bug fixes.
What should I prioritise next?
Cheers, Lj
Client-site "multicommunities" would be nice. A way for me to group multiple communities into a single feed like multireddits.
Oh this, like God mode 😜
Even better if this could be a lemmy feature I think, but client-side would be good too
fairly minor thing, but can you detect from sync whether a home instance allows downvotes? mine does not, but sync still displays the unusable downvote button on everything
A few features I would love to see:
Regarding #3: a way to copy/synchronize subscriptions between accounts.
I use a main account and a backup account on another instance in case the main instance is down, so I want those to have the same subscriptions. Manually synching them would be fine (maybe with options like copy everything, mirror the subscriptions, make sure B does not contain the same as A, etc.).
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You can filter instances and communities. For clarity, you mean blocking all users from those instances from your feed/comments? Do you also mean blocking all users from a community from showing up? If so that seems harder.
When browsing "local" or "all", it would be nice to have some kind of indicator next to the community name to let you know if you've already subscribed or not. I browse "all" sometimes looking for new communities to sub to and I click through to find out I'm already subbed often.
I think something as simple as being able to set a different color for subbed communities would work well and be enough to stand out at a glance.
I second this. Especially useful as you could be following an exact or similarly named community and not notice it's on a different instance.
Definitely, until or if we ever get a way to federate communitied together, it would be nice to see at a glance when you run across one you're not subbed to and quickly sub to it.
Or an option to browse all non-subscribed.
Oh this would also be great. I think both options would be nice so you could browse non subbed when you are looking for what you're missing specifically but also have the indicator so you can still browse and if something catches your interest, you can sub.
yes i would like this.
Block users by instance:
Yes please!
Hey LJ, do you think you could also add the possibility to import/export (or at least copy) my blocked keywords so that I can share the list with others online?
My biggest feature request is an option to view upvotes and downvotes separately rather than as one combined number. Ideally the current combined method would remain an option as well.
Comments collapsing down not up.
I.e. I read a long comment, collapse it and then don't have to scroll up to read the next one.
Is it not possible to add upvotes history?
Yea I would always go check upvotes to find a post from recent, miss that feature
I am considering creating multiple accounts to upvote this even more. Ok just kidding, but seriously if this is at all technically feasible it is by far my most missed feature. I often used my upvote history as a sort of very loose bookmarking system. I realize I can save posts, but I usually reserved that for extra special posts that I really needed to save.
The way Lemmy is set up I've actually struggled to find a post I upvoted just a couple hours prior. It can be very frustrating.
Last time I tried using the spoiler tag, I got multiple people responding telling me sync used syntax different from what Lemmy standard is. Not sure if that's been fixed yet, but sounds like an easy one.
To see a list of all communities on an instance. Unless I'm being dumb, I don't see this feature yet. And a subscribe button next to each community in the list
you can, if you open an instance, there is a 'communities'. from there you can open each community and subscribe.
this would be easier with some images... lemmy grab those
Oh nice, thanks! I don't know how I missed that
https://i.imgur.com/mXawBC1.jpg
This is what I see after the clicking view instance. No communities button :(
Edit: im dumb, it's in the floating button menu
Combining multiple posts on all / local feeds:
Came here to suggest this. As someone who browses the new feed a lot this would make it so much better.
This is the one thing that needs addressing. Seeing someone's post 15x over two pages just makes me want to stop using Lemmy. Consolidation of crossposts would be huge please!
Something that only makes sense on lemmy and not Reddit, but I think it would be cool to explore a combined account view. With defederation I've now ended up with multiple accounts that can all see different things. Could be nice to combine my beehaw and lemmy.world subscriptions view together.
Have a global setting for not sharing the post title by default when I want to directly share an image from the app. It's come unstuck and turned back on for me a couple times.
I also wanted to say the only reason I'm using lemmy at all is because of your app; I'm a big fan. As soon as your app turned off for Reddit, I quit using Reddit. I'm glad that you turned to this community, and I'll support you here too :)
Side note: I'm a software developer, so if you ever want an enhancement in an open-source library, maybe reach out and I can take a crack at it. I'm mostly familiar with Python and C# but I'm always willing to learn new things!
A way to group subscribed communities into a single 'subscription'. I can then associate all the tech related stuff into one clickable item, and all my sports related stuff etc.
Idea is to let me view subscriptions by 'topic'
Rename other users or hide certain characters. Im sick of people using emojis in their names but I don't necessarily want to block them.
Viewing a user profile should have the option to see "posts/comments" together, and should default to it, just like Sync for Reddit. Thanks for all your hard work!
I've actually already added that for the next release!
It works for saved too
You're the best!!
Allow users to switch accounts when making posts or comments instead of having to go back to the home screen
+1! Easy account/instance switcher from anywhere would be so helpful.
Blocked instances appear in comments.
When people post images, they often use markdown in the text field. Sync doesn't display this properly in the posts feed.
Notifications. Doesn't have to be push notifications - polled notifications is fine as well until push is implemented.
After that, cross-posting support.
For your first point:
I'd like to get a quick option to block a community right alongside the filter options (filter user, filter site, filter community).
yes this would be good, it would avoid being obligated to open a community to block them.
A cross post button or option of some kind.
Search function. I get this. I cannot search remote instance toast whenever I try to search
Good spot. Fixed for the next release.
Hiding blocked communities from the 'Everything' feed please
Offline sync would be fantastic.
Not sure if it's a setting I've missed, but I use top 6 hour for the front page, which is great, but then when clicking into a post it still uses top 6 hour, which generally shows little activity or replies, until I then have to change it to active etc to see the whole thread. Am I just being dumb?
Having webp images/animated images show up in the post feed without having to click on the image
Blocking an instance.
Until the Lemmy devs add this you can filter locally
+1 to instance wide blocking, it's a feature that is sorely needed.
That said, it's on the lemmy devs' road map so idk if you'll want to wait for that... But I'm not sure when they'll get round to building that feature.
Is there a link to the road map?
It's that different to filtering an instance?
Filtering occurs on your device.
Blocking occurs before it gets to you.
Block Bots
Please
You can turn off the "show bots" option in Lemmy. I suppose you might have to go to the webpage instead of using Sync, but it's definitely an option.
Or you can block them like any user you find annoying.
User tagging similar to Reddit Enhancement Suite. Specifically keeping a count of up/down votes of other users and displaying next to their comments. Also when tagging users it saves a link to the comment causing you to tag them.
The current user tagging feature is the largest reason I subscribe to sync Ultra. It's really one of the only things that helped out with the spam aside from keeping to smaller communities.
posted before maybe:
i think posts are ranked server side.
there is a new type of sorting that takes into account the size of the community. the PR was merged but idk when it will be implemented in the clients.
Emoji support would be :chefs-kiss:
As far as issues, I experience occasional crashes (once or twice per day, maybe) when opening images. I haven't found a pattern as-yet but I will try to take note of an example next time it happens.
For new features, maybe push notifications of new messages?
Still loving the app, thanks for all you do!
Eternity for Lemmy implemented this and it's been really handy for small instance users to funnel traffic through our instances.
An option to disable the toast 'you are hiding everything on page 6' and just continue on anyway, without needing to press retry.
+1 for title editing!
Is there a way to see what I've upvoted? I've basically been both upvoting and saving everything. Thank you for all the work either way!
Would like an "overview" when going on mine or someone else's profile so posts and comments are mixed. Saves me clicking through each and giving better context.
I would love a Scroll to top button when browsing an instance, or to have an option to Subscribe without scrolling all the way to the top. I tend to visit a new instance, check out a couple pages, and then subscribe. But by then the Subscribe button is really far away.
Just tap the top bar?
Thanks! I did know about this one but it only works on communities with short names. If the community has a long name, there is no space left in the top bar that you can tap to scroll to the top. But someone else told me there's a Scroll to top option in the FAB menu, so I've enabled that!
I have a "scroll to top" button in my FAB menu, or in that top bar menu that shows the same thing (and if it's not visible, there's a menu that lets you pick what buttons to show)
Edit: This is all in the FAB menu, if you're showing more actions in the FAB here: Settings shortcut: General > FAB action
in the 3 dot menu in the navigation bar at the top, or even in the bottom-nav bar, in the menu that is the Sync icon (if you're using that)
Thank you very much! Sorry for replying so late, I clearly need to work out some of my settings because I didn't know about this option in the FAB and I also didn't get any notifications for replies to my comment 🙃. I've enabled the FAB now with scroll to top option, thanks for taking the time to explain!
A rework of font sizing is something I really want to add too.
Maybe a little slider under general.
Funny, I came to this community and ended up on this post, searching for how to make comments larger!
This app actually rocks. I am so enthusiastic to see what kind of improvements and updates are in store! Great job!
I have four suggestions that I didn't mention in our previous talk:
1._ Swipe to upvote/downvote the main post in the comment section.
2._ Subscribed mark/icon for communities in the feeds or the new instances view to quickly know if we are already subscribed to such communities.
3._ In the Explore section the subbed users count only show up in unsubscribed communities, it would be nice if it shows In your subscribed communities as well.
4._ Ability to browse per instances in other sections (like when we are inside a community)
Nice idea
Can we have notifications about replies/messages at least when opening the app up? (It doesn't have to poll all the time for them, but hourly polling or something can be an option).
This is just about ready to launch.
Does the API let you explore an instance?
You can already do this on the live version.
Found it! Thank you.
I don't get notifications when a message is in my inbox, but I have notifications enabled.
Ditto. This is probably my only Sync for Lemmy complaint right now.
Same.
It's a small QOL suggestion, a "Previous" and "Next" comment button when traversing through comments. I used to use RIF prior to coming to Lemmy Sync and always liked being able to jump from comment to comment.
Filtering "All" by language. I know it's a GIGO situation, but I think I'd take the win.
Unless I'm missing something, the scrub bar and other information never go away while watching a video?
You can long press the video for now but I'll be giving the media player a revamp at some point.
Sometimes, when scrolling, I get "Your filters have blocked all the posts on this page" or "You have read all the posts on page 17" or whatever.
The pop-up gives either a "Next page" or a "Retry" button (IIRC). When I press it, I'm able to continue just fine.
Can there be a setting added (or something) that just auto-presses that button for me? I'm cool with just scrolling forever, and it seems a little silly that I get stopped by that prompt but pressing 1 little button fixes it.
I'd like the option to exclude a community from an instance filter. There's a community I'm interested in in an instance that is 90% garbage.
If a subscribed community could bypass the filters, that'd be fantastic
Fixing the bug where instances can't be loaded please!
Just want to make sure you're aware of this: https://discuss.online/post/1294119
I cannot connect to discuss.online as a home site from Sync at the moment, though I can browse it from other home sites. It is not an issue unique to me. The admins of the instance have come to the conclusion it is a lemmy/3p client issue rather than an instance issue, and that clients it breaks now will break more completely with future lemmy rollouts.
Got it thanks
It looks to be an issue with using the backend 0.18.4-beta.8, ever since my instance updated to it I haven't been able to use Sync either
Seconding this. I switched over to discuss.online recently and was surprised when I suddenly couldn't use Sync. Took a good while before I happened upon the admin post about the issue so now I'm back to Lemmy.world on Sync
Double dipping with the answers, but it would be awesome if we could toggle filters on and off. My list of filtered communities is enormous (40+ just for various sports teams I don't care to see on the everything feed), but if like to sometimes disable all filters just to see how the standard experience looks.
I imagine a toggle for each filter category (instance, community, users...)
