Request: Saved and Upvoted tabs up at the top next to Communities, Create Post, and Create Community.

Improvement: Support for search operators

For example:

• Currently, when I use the """ character on Lemmy search, it searches posts/comments with only the """ on them.

My lemmy search improvement requests:

• "hello world" should strictly show comments/posts matching Hello World, case insensitive by default (with case-sensitive check box)
  • like: "Hello Everyone" shows posts/comments with the phrase "hello everyone" on them but not "hello" and/or "everyone"
• -${KEYWORD} or -${COMMUNITY} excludes a specific keyword or community from the search result. Using -"Hello World" filters results with the phrase "Hello World" on them. If it's a community like -"community@lemmy.instance", it will exclude the community from the results.
• * asterisks - wildcard
• | pipe - logical OR search.

There was at least one other comment mentioning this: the possibility of making everything on the screen more compact. Everything takes too much space at the moment and I can't really get a good view of a discussion "at a glance". This is on desktop, haven't checked the app yet. Something at least as compact as old.reddit would be awesome. RiF was the golden standard for me in this sense, just pure discussion, using the entire real estate of the screen. Would be amazing to have that option here. I just checked, and I can literally see more words on my phone on RiF than here on my 1080p laptop screen. I know this is all new, so I don't wanna complain, but I feel like this is something many would agree with.

In the same vein, it would be nice to have the option of hiding all avatars, the user name is enough for me.

Oh and another thing, even though everything takes so much space, the "border" between comments is somehow not visually satisfying. Those lateral borders don't really help in my opinion. If they would extend to reveal the parent-child relationship between comments, at least they would have a function.

When creating an account, it should show a dialogue saying check your email for verification. Right now it doesn't show anything which is confusing for new users who are trying to login for the first time.

• (low priority) on this page: https://lemmy.world/post/36032 the vote count is all over the place each time I view it while logged in. I promise I'm not such a snowflake that votes really matter to me. I'm more concerned about the way this will impact new user confidence on the platform when their engagement feedback is questionable. Someone that doesn't know any better may assume that the fluctuating numbers they see are faked to improve engagement and retention. Over the hours since I made the linked post, the votes seem to fluctuate between something like 20-25 on some page views, 40-60 on others, some are around 200-220, and others are ranging from 400-420. It seems random and uncorrelated as far as I can tell. Like selecting a reply from someone on my account, and viewing, does not seem to show the count as it was when they replied. I thought maybe it was fluctuating based on Local versus All instances, but that doesn't seem consistent either. Just scrolling down the page and back up to the counter after a few minutes can live update and change the count. I am viewing from a Chromium derivative Vanadium on mobile/Graphene OS (AOSP/live updates and current).

• secondly, I tried reposting a short 32 second mp4 clip and get an error, something about json. Is there a way to do video here? I could try setting up an account on your peertube if that works for cross posting, or I could use my workstation to convert the file to a gif if that will work. What is the best way to post something like this? (https://old.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/comments/yxz1jl/upcycled_soapbox_life/)

• I've tried to post this message a half dozen times here and have had no luck...until now. Okay, this one is probably because I got to this page after clicking the link to here from the link on the following page: https://lemmy.world/post/37906 For some reason this sequence makes this page (I am editing this post on now) act weird. It adds the 'you need to login' banner at first but then it goes away. The prompt to add a comment comes up, but oddly the preview button is missing in this instance. To make this comment stick to the post I had to go to the Lemmy.world homepage and select this post directly. Then I could copy and paste the message, could see the preview button, and posting stuck. If you see this, editing works too,.. apparently.

(I'm going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that's ok)

Known Issue: Probably a lemmy-wide issue. When new users sign up, there's no error message for "username has been taken", "username too short/long" or any other exception. You have to do trial-and-error to figure out how to get past the sign-in screen. Some sort of exception handling and user message would help greatly.

Immediate workaround would be to put something on the signup page to explain this ("username has to be between X to Y characters; if you see a spinning icon forever, chances are the username was taken already")

Duh. I couldn't log in because I'd entered my password incorrectly.
It would be nice if Lemmy told me, though, rather than just showing me an infinite spinner.

~~I can't log in on Firefox Mac or Safari Mac, but I can log in with Firefox Windows and Jeroba Android. On Mac, when I hit the Login button it just spins. No cookies are being set, and as far as I can tell there's no network activity. My password is less than 32 characters, which I read somewhere can cause issues.

edit: I tried spoofing Windows and Linux User-Agents on the Mac, but it didn't work.
edit2: I can log in from Safari now. Seems to be a Firefox configuration error, but I don't know how to troubleshoot it.~~

I think lemmy.world need to up the "Federation worker count" under the server settings. The more data that needs to be federated, the higher this number should be.

I like the new icon!

Enhancement request:

I don't know if this is a Lemmy.world thing, or a Lemmy-in-general thing, but I'd love the ability to create "meta communities" (I don't care the nomenclature); i.e., something where I could make a METAFOO@lemmy.world but that combined FOO@lemmy.world, FOO@lemmy.ml, FOO@[insert other fed server], and BAR@[insert other fed server] and so forth so I could have a bit more granularity/control in viewing communities.

EDIT: adding another example combination to show that the FOO doesn't have to stay the same across the combined communities.

I'd love a longer bio. I can only fit a few links in there right now. It's definitely code, not config, but I haven't found if it's set in lemmy-ui or in the API/DB. I could also understand if that's too expensive, but would like to see it addressed.

Any idea why I can't open https://lemmy.world/c/gardening@mander.xyz? Mander.xyz should be federated. I just get 404: couldnt_find_community

Former reddit user making the switch the best I can.

• Found this guide and made an account on Lemmy.world
• went on my merry way and found several communities here and there
• tried to install the mobile client Jerboa and got blocked because the server is older than the app version — and for some reason the former versions crash on my phone

➡ am I right to assume that the end user risks losing its app mobile access everytime there's a update from the app and / or the server?

• in the end I ended up downloading Thunder which allowed me to login to lemmy.world without version issues

I see a couple other comments about sign up issues and I’m having the same. Don’t see anything in my spam folder, though. Both submit buttons on the sign up/login pages just spin endlessly the last couple days. Someone said they managed to fix it by using "forgot password" on the login page but clicking that button does nothing. name’s same here as on midwest.social.

On the main page, it seems like there's a stream of stuff always loading. How do I pause it?

I also had the same issue on my first login (the email was verified, btw). The login button just went spinning and nothing happens. Trying the login on Jerboa gave me invalid credentials (it wasn't a mistype, because I used a password manager).

The workaround I did was to do a password reset and use a simpler one (was 50+ chars with special chars on, then changed to 32 chars and no special chars).

Not sure if what fixed was the reset itself, or the new password.

After this, the login went smooth on both the website and the app.

EDIT: And when posting this, the post submit button also kept spinning (the more than 200+ chars issue). But trying in a new tab, the message was actually sent.

And some minute later, on the old tab the message was sent, but the OP post changed from the "improvements and issues" to "The inability to post multiple pictures is holding Lemmy back.", but the comments below mine where for the "improvements and issues", while the comment above where to the other thread.

When I right click to open a community in a new tab, the "joined" button is enabled at the top right even though I haven't joined it. I can still click a post and join the community, but it's a bit confusing that it seems to carry over from the prior community, which I am a member of. Is anyone experiencing anything similar?

Why can't I subscribe to a know new community on lemmy.ml ?

If I know that "beekeeping" on lemmy.ml exists, so how do I join it? It never shoes up in search.

I jabe a question, I noticed a few users with followers but I can't seem to follow anyone. I'm now questioning whether it was a fever dream. Can we follow users somehow? Sorry for the noob question, lol.

I am just getting an infinite spinner when trying to post to !nuggets@lemmy.world Just trying to post something here to see if I can do anything...

edit: just saw the 2000 character limit. will adjust my post...

edit2: i was way under 2000 characters. Finally after trying everything else, I just didnt select the language "english" and it went through (slowly) without issue.