So I’ve been testing out various Lemmy clients these past few weeks, and while Connect’s my favorite so far, here are some things I picked up:

  • Instance downtime notifications would be useful

  • “Default sort for Posts” shouldn’t follow the most recent selection

  • “Preload images” (and videos) should be configurable separately for wi-fi and cellular

  • An actual blur would look better than the red NSFW overlay

  • “Show Upvotes and Downvotes” is fine, but percentages would be more convenient

  • “Scrolling past Posts marks as read” can be unreliable

  • Swipes aren’t fully exploited: disabling right swipes to accommodate people using Android devices like iPhones is debatable, but right edge swipes could easily be used to open “About Community” for example

  • The animation when opening a post’s action menu causes more “misclicks” than anything

  • Probably Lemmy-related, but a global block for communities (rather than per-instance) would save time

  • When sharing content, opening apps like Telegram within Connect is impractical

  • The expected behavior when pressing the back button repeatedly is to go back to the homepage then exit, not open the menu even when the top search drawer is open

  • The Android navigation bar is always black regardless of the current theme

  • Live search often doesn’t return exact matches unless expanded, which should also be doable by pressing Enter

  • Since comments aren’t colored by default, “+X points” would help distinguish from “-X points”, and it should either be “point” for 0 and +/-1 or “point(s)” for everything

  • Comment action bars should collapse after said actions are taken

  • When commenting, an auto-search after typing c/ or u/ would be useful

  • Draft previews don’t seem to work

  • Your own posts shouldn’t ever get hidden

  • An “Upvoted Posts” history would be nice

Now, this is all obviously subjective so feel free to disagree, but hopefully it’ll still help somewhat.

  • Swervish@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Agree with everything besides the instance vs global community blocking, having the option would be nice, but definitely not the default. This would make nsfw vs sfw accounts a nightmare.