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What are the biggest upgrades/fixes that you would like to see done to Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by 3nt3r@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me its having a single instance that indexes all the communites to which all other instances can then pull that information from so when I go searching for communities the I’ll have access to every single one with needing to post the entire URL in the search bar

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[–] udes1516@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah. Joining communities from other instances is a hassle. Kinda puts me off sometimes.

[–] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely a big problem. UX can make or break a service. I'm sure it's just a matter of time though :)

[–] wizjenkins@lemmy.wizjenkins.com 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah my #1 issue is how hard it is to find communities to follow. I think it's why so many communities are just started on lemmy.ml since it has the best chance to get users on there or Beehaw.

[–] NataliePortland@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Really? I don’t get that. I go to the ‘communities’ button at the top, where they are sorted by population, so it’s easy to find some good ones right away. If I want to search something specific I type it in the search bar and there it is. Is it not that way for you? That seems easy to me

[–] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because you joined the largest community. It's much more cumbersome for smaller communities.

[–] Fashtas@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed. The largest weak point for me.

I have to go to third party site where I can see a list of communities, find one, copy some url, go back to my instance and search then paste the url.

At this point I get nothing, or 404, or a nothing found error. Generally this is where it stalls, and i give up and come back half an hour later if I remember and try again.

This time the search may find the community, but has failed to do so several times. Still trying to subscribe to a pathfinder community which I started trying to do earlier this morning

[–] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Usually, I search for the URL, but it gives no results. However, in the backend my lemmy instance is downloading a bunch of posts from that instance, and when I look at my list of communities, it's suddenly there. Awful user experience, but it works. I'm sure this will improve in the future.

[–] udes1516@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

That works easily when you want to join communities already on your instance. But if you want to search for other communities you need to go to https://browse.feddit.de/, search for them there, copy the url, then join. Also you cant sort that list by anything, you kinda need to know what you are looking for.

Its....a bit too complicated. I'm sure it will get better with time.