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So, lemmy is a project I have been following since the beggining. With federation here, it seems like everything is aligned for it to become the reddit killer, pardon my expression.

What do you think is missing from lemmy for it to have a massive engaging community?

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[โ€“] moonboy@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I think there's a lot of QoL features missing that make it less user-friendly than most sites and the difference is pretty stark when you compare it to reddit especially. Some examples:

-Being able to "view all images" so that you can just scroll down without having to open every image manually

-Being able to open videos from within the site

-More filters/sorting options. You can't sort by controversial comments, you can't search by community/post/comment, you can't view all submitter's comments

-Being able to hover over an image and have it open (with extensions like imagus, hover zoom, etc)

-Having a preview of your comment below (the preview button doesn't do that)

-A better search function. Right now it's not very accurate and sometimes doesn't yield results.

-Being able to expand the comment box you type in

-Smaller margins. Right now, everything is in the middle. This is fine for individual comments, but once you start getting lots of replies, where everything is inched over slightly, then comments far down the chain are basically thin strips of text.

-a phone app

These are some that stand out to me. I agree with other commenters that the site is still new, and unknown. But if people do discover this site and find it's functionality to be annoying, then they may be turned off from using it, especially when they're likely more comfortable on other platforms already.

[โ€“] foca@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] moonboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago
[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Thx for these, enhancing search is what I'm working on currently.

An expanded image view isn't a bad idea either.