Ask Lemmy

Linking one of the AO3 tag tutorials because tagging? is extremely powerful.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41214669?view_full_work=true

Tags for posts

Multi-communities.
So you can create a list of communities over various instances and show all posts in them as if they were one.

I want to be able to put alt text on an image post upload. Accessibility is cool.

I got tempbanned for 48 hours in a community recently after not noticing that a mod was objecting to some posts and had deleted a couple until after the ban went in place.

I'd kind of like to have some way to have a higher-priority indicator that a post was deleted or "message from moderator" or something. Preferably a different indicator from just "waiting regular messages", and a way to view mod warnings or messages from moderators.

Being able to actually migrate an account, not just settings and follows etc but your post and comment history etc. All data

Some way of grouping Communities other than by name (not very useful). E.G. search on 'Climate' and you don't get the name of one of the busiest communities.

In other words, group them a step up the taxonomy. Create 10 or 15 groups (sci/tech, history, music, culture, media, nature, issues, locations....), see what mods have to say about that list. (Could do worse than the Wikipedia taxonomy.)

Auto mark reply notifications as read.

Some way of linking to a post somewhere on Lemmy that will open up the post in your logged in instance of Lemmy.

Show me a list of posts and comments I upvoted.

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.

Ninja edits. A grace period where you can edit your comment without it showing it was edited. This is usually for typos and formatting mistakes that you notice right after posting your comment. A minute will do.

More users that aren’t Americans talking about their politics would be nice.

Polls

Notification whenever there's something in the mod queue of a board I moderate. At least I don't see any such notification when using Voyager.

User migration between instances.

Back-up/failover instances for communities and users.

Every user and every admin of a community should be able to assign a failover instance in case the main instance goes down temporarily or permanently. All relevant data (posts, upvotes, settings, password hashes, mod log) would be permanently syched so you could just switch over in case of a downtime and most importantly, no content would be lost.

If you implement a feature to set the failover instance as your new main instance, that would also implicitly allow you to migrate users and communities elsewhere.

Some sort of super community that are searchable (i.e. not something Clientside) and span multiple servers. The fragmentation of having the same few communities everywhere is my biggest issue here.

In general I want more and better discoverability of communities anywhere.

Picture Albums that you can scroll through on an app.

Followong a user.

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.

The ability to hide posts that are the exact same but posted in Different places. It is very annoying to browse through 3,4,5 posts with the same text, same image and same poster just in different communities.

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.

I'd like to be able to mark specific top level posts as 'don't show me this again'.

Add an equivalent to multireddits. I miss that so much

show me reports I have made.

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

Consolidation of communities with a sort of overlay.
Mods can choose to mirror the whole community. This way you can have a sort of unified community happening between instances instead of happening on each island.
Also mods can move a discussion if needed.

Just recently I have seen a three separate discussions across three different c/technology communities.

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.

Post flairs

Reddit Markdown lets one use italics inside links, like so:

I like [the author of *A Game of Thrones*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin).

However, Lemmy does not presently support this syntax, renders it as:

I like the author of A Game of Thrones.

I frequently want to have partially-styled links like this, particularly italics.

EDIT: Okay, I just discovered that apparently this has been implemented since the last time I tried it. Thanks, devs!

Alongside others mentioned (tags/flairs, multi-communities, keyword filtering, etc.) another feature I'd like to see added/improved is notification settings.

Something like...

In account settings:

• Enable/disable all notifications.
• Enable/disable post reply notifications.
• Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

For others' posts/comments and per posts/comments:

• Enable/disable post reply notifications.
• Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

With those settings you could more easily tune out all notifications or only opt into those you'd like to see, and opt out of those you're done with (say your post/comment got popular and you've had your fill from the replies).

Unrelated to notification settings, it would also be nice to be able to block communities from the front page via the ... More menu in the default web UI.

Being able to block link posts by host. It is the one of the reasons I use mbin more than lemmy.

Lemmy does pretty much everything I want from this medium of communication. Wishlist features would be:

• A better way of linking posts, I see that there is an extenstion that fixes this issue but it would be nice for new users if this was built in
• Account migrations
• Multi Communities
• A way to assign a #tag to a community. For example If I make c/MMA then I would want every post there to federate with the tag #MMA and every post tagged #MMA to show up in c/MMA
• A way of scheduling posts within lemmy.
• Maybe a little icon that shows where things are being posted from. So if I see a user with a mastodon showing up in the feed with a formatting mistake ill know why.
• An option to follow a thread so you can be notified of all new comments even when its not your thread.
• It would be nice for instances to have a monthly server cost that tracks donations. I couldnt find any examples except reddit but something like this sitting in the sidebar would help show users how much these stuff all costs. There could be one for instances and development cost goals.