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If you could, how would you improve lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by TimothyMcFuck@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

#2 is fixed in the next release btw.

What does #1 mean?

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Point 1 refers to the "Name" and "Display name". For example it's cumbersome to have cases like "Programmer Humor" pointing to "/c/programmerhumor" and "Lemmy Support" pointing to "/c/lemmy_support"

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That to me is a very necessary feature, for at least two reasons.

Internationalization: URLs are always latin chars, which would exclude any non-latin community or usernames.
More complex community names. You can see how ridiculous reddit community names can get, because they don't allow spaces or non-latin characters, in either community or usernames. Spaces specifically is a necessary one for both, and URLs wouldn't permit that.