Often, its asked what the fediverse or lemmy needs more of in terms of content, but are there any specific features or functionality you really feel are lacking?

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      It’s an option on lemmy.today when doing an image post.

      My guess is that it’s probably just in a newer release, and it’ll show up at the next update your home instance does.

      lemmy.today is running 0.19.5.

      lemmy.world, your home instance, is presently running 0.19.3.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    Add technical depth by allowing communities to select a default “sort by most recent comment” like a forum. This is the key difference between ADHD content that focuses on time versus forums that focus on depth. Then find a way to integrate these deep threads into the Allfeed. Bridge the gap between forums with depth and PITA user names versus link aggregators with ADHD but recent info and broad scope.

      • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        To some extent yes, but it is not a default option at the community level. The scope is only as a user setting overall.

        I’m abstracting to analyze a question of why link aggregators do not naturally displace very technical niche forums. I don’t believe that expecting the user to alter their overall sorting method is effective here. Nor do I believe that the pinned thread is an effective prioritization method to promote a more technical niche. In my opinion, the method of prioritization and promotion needs to be organic and democratically sourced as a fundamental mechanism that drives community behavior.

        The part that I cannot intuitively work out is how to integrate the old niche threads with the aggregated feed in a way that is nonauthoritative or forced or feels like a narrative agenda. How to both enable content discovery while enabling depth is an interesting challenge that could IMO surpass any current or previous link aggregation platform’s functionality and use in such a way as to antiquate all previous platforms.

  • Unknown1234_5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    28 days ago

    I’d like to be able to follow users like microblog platforms, which would enable mastodon content to show up in an organic-feeling way on Lemmy. This would make it so I don’t need to keep mastodon around to see anouncments from like two people and it would just overall improve interoperability between different feddiverse platforms.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Some sort of automatic down-sampling feature before posting, for images, video and maybe audio.

    DeltaChat has this built in to minimise file-sizes before posting.

    Something like this would reduce plenty of bandwith/processor use/carbon etc. Increase speed of loading pages.

    With an option to click to see the original media too.

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 months ago

        No, I mean clicking on them and reading them doesn’t mark them as read. You have to manually click the “Mark all as read” button or individually click the “mark as read” arrow button on each of the comments.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    In frontends, I’d like to have the option to not show displaynames, or at least show real usernames next to displaynames.

    If you want to reference a user using @username@instance syntax, you need to know their username, and while the displaynames can be cute, I’ve just never seen a really compelling argument for them. I also haven’t seen anyone abusing them yet, but they seem likely to be trouble from a “trying to impersonate someone else” standpoint.

  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    option to get notifications when a post or a comment subtree gets a new comment. Especially (but not only) useful for your own posts, and for when you have commented on a topic whereyou are interested in not only the direct responses, but in the overall discussion.

    to handle deleted content better: when a post or a comment is deleted, keep them openable, to still have the context readable

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 months ago

      When you ask OP a question, then someone says “I’d like to know, too!” and OP only replies to the comment under yours.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        and only I get notified. and only for that reply, if discussion continues in deeper replies I won’t get notified

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Resizeable inline images. At least some way to show them enlarged, the way one can with images that are posted. Kbin had it, and I’m sure mbin does, but the Lemmy Web UI does not, which means manually adding a link beneath the image if you want people to be able to conveniently view images full-size, particularly on touch interfaces.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      IIRC kbin/mbin have that, but I don’t recall whether it applies to all posted material or just a user’s microblog.

      I never used it myself, as I really prefer the Reddit-style “community-oriented” structure to the Twitter-style “user-oriented” structure.

  • oyenyaaow@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Tagging. del.icio.us style tagging. LJ style tagging. as free-form as tumblr or as structured as AO3’s tagging system. any tagging system. as long as there is tagging system.