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submitted 8 months ago by self@awful.systems to c/freeasm@awful.systems

reply with features and bug fixes you'd like to see in Philthy, the lemmy fork that runs on this instance. no guarantees I'll get to any of them soon, but particularly low-hanging fruit and well-liked features can be prioritized.

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[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago

This could very well just be me not understanding Lemmy yet, but I find it tricky to find the new comments. I mean if I've read a thread and see that there are 10 new comments since last I read the tread, I would like to be able to find them. Or maybe there already is?

In SCOOP they were marked with [new] in read. I liked that.

[-] 200fifty@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

Seconding this! I'd love some kind of highlight system. It seems like it sort of highlights recent comments very subtly, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with whether I've read them

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

that's a very nice feature, much as in Reddit when you have gold

i think sometimes they're highlighted?

[-] self@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

yep! they are currently highlighted but the UI for it is very insufficient (a subtle change to the post’s background color) and it feels very inconsistent. there’s also the bug where your own posts are considered unread posts in the thread, which isn’t physically possible, and makes the unread mechanism a lot less useful. I feel like there’s a lot of low hanging fruit here that could make unread posts better very quickly, though I do want to check and see if the API has any bad surprises lurking

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

Having used it with the web interface and Mlem, it’s definitely there but it’s also awkward to use. I get the impression this is due to the APIs exposed for posts but haven’t checked as yet. Definitely a good suggestion!

[-] self@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago

search desperately needs to be reworked. maybe it should even be an external service that just indexes off of the lemmy database and uses the API to pull in federated results when they're not cached locally?

fuck, why do I keep wanting to spin up a search engine

[-] self@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

does anyone have strong positive or negative feelings about SearXNG? I haven’t looked into its API, but a local Lemmy and federation plugin for it might be a cool way to get better search

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

Images in comments are tiny and awkward to expand. Please make the images display as hyperlinks so I can centre-click on them to open the image full-sized in a new tab, or do whatever else with it.

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[-] mii@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fix the bug that you get logged out when refreshing the page sometimes -- I've noticed this on both Firefox and Safari. The token still exists (at least it's present in document.cookie as jwt), but for some reason it doesn't get sent anymore, so Lemmy thinks you've been logged out.

I've actually looked into this already, but didn't get very far, especially because it doesn't even happen all the time.

Honestly, just storing it in localStorage instead of as a cookie might work ...

[-] self@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

oh yeah, this is a bad one. the localStorage idea is a good call.

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

here's one that'll take a bit more thought:

philthy needs a facility to put in alt-text for images

and a (default on) setting to warn you when you didn't

this already exists in mastodon, that's quite good actually (includes Tesseract OCR), might be a guide

[-] mii@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

I thought you could already do that with the markdown syntax ![alt text](url). Or is this one of those GitHub-unique markdown features?

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[-] self@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

I was thinking about something like this recently! I generally like how mastodon does it, so that’s a good starting point

[-] self@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

better federation health logging; a section in the instances page to see logs for the result of the last ~5 or so incoming/outgoing federation attempts with another instance

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

I was wiped when i got home yesterday 😅

here's the ones I gathered from various thread mentions:

  • modtools local-posts view
  • user flairs (non-federated to start)
  • repo and docs renames (I believe these have been done)
  • a review of the existing containers/container build flow, to see what's in there
  • CI: open question as to preferred CI system, feedback welcome
  • button to allow auto-subbing users to new subs being created (strikes me that this would also involve user prefs work, to allow users to control that). might also open the door to an invite feature?
[-] self@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

is it weird that I kind of want to start with (very limited, probably moderator-assigned) flairs? it's like the least important feature but it's one that I miss a lot

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

user-assigned flairs per sub are great fun, i feel like being a shill for Big Basilisk again

mod-assigned ones were useful on reddit buttcoin, whereas here we'd probably just get sick of their shiit and ban them

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[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

authorized fetch support, pretty please?

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

Mentioning this since I noticed it today: better frontend handling / indication of blocked users. I think this might be a regression on the most recent web ui? Think I saw it indicate that previously

Also think I might have found an incongruency between web UI and one mobile client display format, but needs more poking at in case it was just cache fuckery. (Specifically also pertains to post display handling in case of blocked users)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

Am I missing something, or does the default web ui not have any kind of way to get to bookmarks (indicated as stars in the control elements)?

[-] MBM 4 points 8 months ago

Seems to be under 'saved' on your user page

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
  1. nice on finding that
  2. wow that is in an impressively wtf place
[-] cornflake@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

Maintain full compatibility with Jerboa for Android

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

Hmm. So, pinned threads are a thing, but just thought (from the kagi thread, David’s post about apologists specifically) maybe pinned comments could also be valuable/useful?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

that comment pinned correctly so we're there

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

it's quite good, you can pin to the top of a sub or the top of the whole local page as we do with the weekly stubsack

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