So I’ve been testing out various Lemmy clients these past few weeks, and while Connect’s my favorite so far, here are some things I picked up:
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Instance downtime notifications would be useful
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“Default sort for Posts” shouldn’t follow the most recent selection
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“Preload images” (and videos) should be configurable separately for wi-fi and cellular
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An actual blur would look better than the red NSFW overlay
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“Show Upvotes and Downvotes” is fine, but percentages would be more convenient
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“Scrolling past Posts marks as read” can be unreliable
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Swipes aren’t fully exploited: disabling right swipes to accommodate people using Android devices like iPhones is debatable, but right edge swipes could easily be used to open “About Community” for example
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The animation when opening a post’s action menu causes more “misclicks” than anything
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Probably Lemmy-related, but a global block for communities (rather than per-instance) would save time
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When sharing content, opening apps like Telegram within Connect is impractical
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The expected behavior when pressing the back button repeatedly is to go back to the homepage then exit, not open the menu even when the top search drawer is open
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The Android navigation bar is always black regardless of the current theme
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Live search often doesn’t return exact matches unless expanded, which should also be doable by pressing Enter
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Since comments aren’t colored by default, “+X points” would help distinguish from “-X points”, and it should either be “point” for 0 and +/-1 or “point(s)” for everything
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Comment action bars should collapse after said actions are taken
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When commenting, an auto-search after typing c/ or u/ would be useful
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Draft previews don’t seem to work
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Your own posts shouldn’t ever get hidden
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An “Upvoted Posts” history would be nice
Now, this is all obviously subjective so feel free to disagree, but hopefully it’ll still help somewhat.
I think hitting
About Instance
on kbin should either give an error like “kbin and lemmy are different” or, if possible, show the actualinstancekbin info