One that I’d like to see is a more in-depth sorting option for posts (allowing you to see for example top of December 2020, or top of a specific day). A custom date range selection would be best. I remember this being a frequently requested feature in the early days of reddit, and they never implemented it.
Can’t you already do that? As long as the instance federates with the one hosting your account, you can subscribe to its communities
This needs to be highlighted more through the design. This is the keystone of the fediverse! yet it is hard for new comers to figure that out by themselves. more work needs to be done on this subject.
Any idea how? Local and remote communities are shown in the same way, and both have a subscribe button.
Adding a Federated tab on the front page, so it’s Subscribed/Local/Federated/All, would help.
Allowing sorting communities on the communities page by subscribers/category/userspermonth/etc by clicking on the relevant column name and having one of the columns be “instance”, would help. Sort the instances automatically alphabetically or by total userspermonth or posts of all of its communities combined or whatever in the background.
Adding the [email protected] and instance.tld/c/community search syntax.
Adding a small “What is Lemmy and how does it work” tutorial link under the signup/login button. Could be just a “Help?” button. Leads to a simple page that explains the federation concept in layman terms. I prefer the simple “public email” comparison, most people seem to get that quickly.
Maybe federated communities shouldn’t be shown the same way. Maybe they could have a small “federated” tag next to the name that stands out, in the default theme color scheme css this could be a green background on the “federated” text of the tag. It’s important users notice at a glance they can access federated communities from here on lemmy.ml (or whatever instance they’re on).
Those sound like good ideas, would you mind opening issues for them in the lemmy-ui repo? Ideally a separate issue for each point.
Excuse my ignorance.
1 - That’s what I have noticed, I didn’t find communities of other instances listed so I assumed they were not in the list all together. maybe adding another column citing the instance domain will help clear confusion.
3 - In that case a good addition might be giving the user a tool to group communities from different instances and aggregat them into a folder. so I can group abc1.org/c/privacy dce.org/c/privacyland and fgi.org/c/privacytools into one merged feed that I can name to my liking. this could be a good addition once lemmy gets bigger!