I just noticed that the limit for multicommunities is 30, which seems really low. Is there a technical reason besides the potential lag? If not, is it possible to get a setting to remove the limit?
Multi-communities is completely clientsided because Lemmy does not support them yet on the server. This means that the client will need to manually fetch the list of posts from every community in a multi-community. So if there are 30 communities in a multi-community, the client will need to get the post feed for all 30 communities in order to load the post feed. A limit of 30 is placed on the list to prevent the client from hitting the Lemmy servers too hard and also so it doesn’t take forever for the feed to load.
Unfortunately I will not be making this number configurable in order to respect all of the Lemmy servers. Otherwise the client will DOS the servers.
Thank you for the explanation, I was also wondering why limiting it to 30… It is a fairly easy limit to reach as there are… Well, multiple communities for the same content with different instances lol.
Hopefully when Lemmy decides to implement this (ETA son) the transition for the app would be smooth for you :)
Yeah that’s understandable. Forgot they were client side.
As someone using the default web UI, it must be nice to have multi communities
How do you even create one? When I’m trying to make one and pick the communities I can’t move to the next step. When moving back using my phone’s navigation button it takes me out from the creator and loses the data.
Edit: I figured it out. Kinda confusing behavior tbh.
I’ll add an additional option in the warning screen called “Save & Close” so it’s easier to use. There also appears to be a bug where tapping on the “X” button will not warn you about unsaved changes so I’ll fix that as well.
To quit and save I need to tap on the screen edge to the left or right of the input field for the community name. When I do that it just closes the creation window with no notification or anything so the feedback and letting users know how to continue could be better. To figure out how to create a feed I had to spam click on every part of the screen for some while until I figured out how to quit while saving. But it took a while to realise that quitting in this way was saving the feed too because I needed to stumble upon the section where the feeds are shown because they aren’t on the sidebar but in their own page. After finding out a bunch of created sections and some additional experimenting I figured out how this works. As for when I go back using phone’s navigation it warns me the unsaved changes will be lost so it’s ok in that regard. I don’t think I remember seeing any X button? Overall now that I know how this works everything’s fine but it was really confusing to figure it out as a new user. Also huge thanks for the app, there’s so much cool advanced functionality that I would never expect from an app. History? Searching for words in a thread? Filtering by post type? So cool! And regarding the post type, is it possible to set it up for each feed separately or is it a global app setting? For example to create a feed of only images and a feed of only text posts. I’m still figuring the app out and idk what’s possible yet. Thanks for the app again! <3
Edit: The feeds show on the sidebar. In that case I must have misremembered that part somehow. Maybe I checked it a few times before I created those few feeds when troubleshooting.
