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What are the features you MOST miss from Reddit? (Bonus pts for tech dudes-- any idea if they're on the dev- hoz?) (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me-- Lemmy is getting dangerously close to pulling me away from Reddit, and I love it, but still, there's a ways to go in terms of 'critical features,' yeah?

So then, here's two of mine below. What are yours?

I'd still very much like to HIDE threads I'm not interested in. Otherwise, no matter what stream I choose (Subscribed | Local | All), I keep seeing the same topics, and it can be downright difficult paging through streams to see new stuff from more communities. That's not good, frankly.
I very much want the ability to create *more* custom streams. On Reddit, those streams are called "MultiReddits," and let me tell you, they rock! For instance, my one "Series" multi-reddit consists of these:

/r/1950sx /r/1960sx /r/andykaufmanx /r/Asterixx /r/blackadderx /r/CoenBrothersx /r/Comics_Studiesx /r/DepthHubx /r/fathertedx /r/FawltyTowersx /r/Flintstonesx /r/FoolUsx /r/HannaBarberaCUx /r/Holmesx /r/InconvenienceStorex /r/jimjefferiesx /r/lettermanx /r/ligneclairex /r/Muppetsx /r/newsradiox /r/OldSchoolCelebsx /r/peeweex /r/pennandtellerx /r/philipkDickheadsx /r/postapocalypticx /r/silentmoviegifsx /r/TheAdventuresofTintinx /r/TheFlintstonesx /r/TNGx /r/tosx /r/venturebrosx

So that's just /one/ of my 12+ stream groups ("MultiReddits"), and I love how one can parse them so specifically by community, you know?

I'd absolutely adore it such functionality could extend to Lemmy / the FV, one day.

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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I understand what happened to you.

will hide posts from the overview of any instance at all

By this do you mean that a post is considered Read and therefore Hidden whenever any one person has read the post?

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, not any one /random/ person, but you, the user! I.e., right now, it all depends on what posts YOU clicked on yourself. (if you clicked on them even once, now they're forever disappeared under that particular setting, see)

Now, this might be helpful when browsing a feed or stream, but when it comes to looking at single instances, can be very *unhelpful*.

For example (as said above)-- I have a tiny community (mostly of my own work), and because of that setting, can't even see what the posts are, now.

That is-- unless I turn the setting OFF, I can see *zero* content in my very own community, i.e. the one that I started. And of course, it messes up other instances which are merely in my 'favorite' streams. When I browse to them specifically in order to see what their latest content is, anything I viewed before then is now "missing."

It winds up being a terrible feature unless you purely view by stream, in other words.

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[–] oatmilkmaid@possumpat.io 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, like I said the Lemmy setting is ridiculously generous with what it considers read and how it hides things. Best way to circumvent this is just to use an app that’s has the option to hide read posts in-app and doesn’t use the Lemmy settings. I think Voyager (formerly wefwef) does it, maybe Memmy? Not sure about the Android applications. Connect probably

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I hit the FV with Chrome/FF, so I guess I'm out of luck with that. Still, hiding content is such a powerful feature that I reckon it will be implemented soon enough.

It certainly wouldn't hurt if the RES devs got busy on Lemmy.