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These threads used to be really useful back on Reddit.

I'm currently finishing off full app translations for the next release along with lots of the usual bug fixes.

What should I prioritise next?

Cheers, Lj

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[โ€“] PeacefulPenguin@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Client-site "multicommunities" would be nice. A way for me to group multiple communities into a single feed like multireddits.

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[โ€“] 00dani@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 year ago

fairly minor thing, but can you detect from sync whether a home instance allows downvotes? mine does not, but sync still displays the unusable downvote button on everything

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] canthidium@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When browsing "local" or "all", it would be nice to have some kind of indicator next to the community name to let you know if you've already subscribed or not. I browse "all" sometimes looking for new communities to sub to and I click through to find out I'm already subbed often.

[โ€“] dracs@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

I second this. Especially useful as you could be following an exact or similarly named community and not notice it's on a different instance.

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[โ€“] menturi@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A few features I would love to see:

  1. A way to view groups of multiple communities in a single feed. Like a multicommunity. A workaround right now is to have multiple accounts, which is less than ideal.

  2. A way to view content from multiple accounts in a single feed. Like a universal feed.

  3. An easier way to have the same settings apply to multiple accounts.

  4. A way to block instances or communities.

[โ€“] maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Regarding #3: a way to copy/synchronize subscriptions between accounts.

I use a main account and a backup account on another instance in case the main instance is down, so I want those to have the same subscriptions. Manually synching them would be fine (maybe with options like copy everything, mirror the subscriptions, make sure B does not contain the same as A, etc.).

[โ€“] revoopy@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

You can filter instances and communities. For clarity, you mean blocking all users from those instances from your feed/comments? Do you also mean blocking all users from a community from showing up? If so that seems harder.

[โ€“] alianne@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

My biggest feature request is an option to view upvotes and downvotes separately rather than as one combined number. Ideally the current combined method would remain an option as well.

[โ€“] QubaXR@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last time I tried using the spoiler tag, I got multiple people responding telling me sync used syntax different from what Lemmy standard is. Not sure if that's been fixed yet, but sounds like an easy one.

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[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To see a list of all communities on an instance. Unless I'm being dumb, I don't see this feature yet. And a subscribe button next to each community in the list

[โ€“] Rescuer6394 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

you can, if you open an instance, there is a 'communities'. from there you can open each community and subscribe.

this would be easier with some images... lemmy grab those

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[โ€“] Dfy@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is it not possible to add upvotes history?

[โ€“] sudoroot@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Yea I would always go check upvotes to find a post from recent, miss that feature

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[โ€“] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago

Notifications. Doesn't have to be push notifications - polled notifications is fine as well until push is implemented.

After that, cross-posting support.

[โ€“] Lightborne@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like to get a quick option to block a community right alongside the filter options (filter user, filter site, filter community).

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Have a global setting for not sharing the post title by default when I want to directly share an image from the app. It's come unstuck and turned back on for me a couple times.

I also wanted to say the only reason I'm using lemmy at all is because of your app; I'm a big fan. As soon as your app turned off for Reddit, I quit using Reddit. I'm glad that you turned to this community, and I'll support you here too :)

Side note: I'm a software developer, so if you ever want an enhancement in an open-source library, maybe reach out and I can take a crack at it. I'm mostly familiar with Python and C# but I'm always willing to learn new things!

[โ€“] regular_human@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Emoji support would be :chefs-kiss:

Eternity for Lemmy implemented this and it's been really handy for small instance users to funnel traffic through our instances.

[โ€“] revoopy@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

Rename other users or hide certain characters. Im sick of people using emojis in their names but I don't necessarily want to block them.

[โ€“] Terevos@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

A cross post button or option of some kind.

[โ€“] greenskye@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something that only makes sense on lemmy and not Reddit, but I think it would be cool to explore a combined account view. With defederation I've now ended up with multiple accounts that can all see different things. Could be nice to combine my beehaw and lemmy.world subscriptions view together.

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[โ€“] SamuelRJankis@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

User tagging similar to Reddit Enhancement Suite. Specifically keeping a count of up/down votes of other users and displaying next to their comments. Also when tagging users it saves a link to the comment causing you to tag them.

The current user tagging feature is the largest reason I subscribe to sync Ultra. It's really one of the only things that helped out with the spam aside from keeping to smaller communities.

[โ€“] pinkwerdo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Blocked instances appear in comments.

Not sure if it's a setting I've missed, but I use top 6 hour for the front page, which is great, but then when clicking into a post it still uses top 6 hour, which generally shows little activity or replies, until I then have to change it to active etc to see the whole thread. Am I just being dumb?

[โ€“] monkey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Viewing a user profile should have the option to see "posts/comments" together, and should default to it, just like Sync for Reddit. Thanks for all your hard work!

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've actually already added that for the next release!

It works for saved too

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[โ€“] Stovetop@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

As far as issues, I experience occasional crashes (once or twice per day, maybe) when opening images. I haven't found a pattern as-yet but I will try to take note of an example next time it happens.

For new features, maybe push notifications of new messages?

Still loving the app, thanks for all you do!

[โ€“] exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

posted before maybe:

  • filters with a timeout (filters that disappear after a while). The filter might remain in a list of filters and can be reset again (or gets deleted after timeout). This would be a middle ground between blocking certain things completely and not at all.

  • weighing of certain communities. A weight of 0 would be the same as blocking. A weight of 1 doesn't change anything. A Weight of 0.5 would multiply the upvotes of posts by 0.5 in order to change its position on the frontpage. ( I am not sure how exactly the rank is determined, but weighing certain meme-communities lower would be nicer than completely blocking them - i like a nice stupid meme from time to time. am not sure how this could work on reality, son this might not have a perfect solution though.

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[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A rework of font sizing is something I really want to add too.

Maybe a little slider under general.

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[โ€“] mom@nom.mom 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • I would like to be able to have the auto-complete/predict/correct available in the title field with the OpenBoard keyboard app, please.

  • And editing the title? (I learned I can do it from the website, but would like to be able to do it in Sync, if possible.)

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[โ€“] kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I have four suggestions that I didn't mention in our previous talk:

1._ Swipe to upvote/downvote the main post in the comment section.

2._ Subscribed mark/icon for communities in the feeds or the new instances view to quickly know if we are already subscribed to such communities.

3._ In the Explore section the subbed users count only show up in unsubscribed communities, it would be nice if it shows In your subscribed communities as well.

4._ Ability to browse per instances in other sections (like when we are inside a community)

[โ€“] londos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Is there a way to see what I've upvoted? I've basically been both upvoting and saving everything. Thank you for all the work either way!

[โ€“] incster@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

When people post images, they often use markdown in the text field. Sync doesn't display this properly in the posts feed.

[โ€“] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would like to be able to hide top level comments down to their username line only so that i don't see the comment but can unhide it if i want.

[โ€“] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Already an option

[โ€“] Chozo@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you plan on supporting logging in from Kbin instances once the API is live?

[โ€“] ljdawson@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I haven't had chance to look at their API but if it's close enough for sure.

Otherwise I'll be making Sync for Kbin (with shared ultra subscription etc).

[โ€“] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Microblogging on Sync with kbin would be awesome

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[โ€“] QubaXR@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Double dipping with the answers, but it would be awesome if we could toggle filters on and off. My list of filtered communities is enormous (40+ just for various sports teams I don't care to see on the everything feed), but if like to sometimes disable all filters just to see how the standard experience looks.

I imagine a toggle for each filter category (instance, community, users...)

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