-I currently have 240 subscriptions.
When making a new post, I often can’t remember right away which community it would be most relevant to. Sometimes it’s pretty obvious, but other times I have to scroll through the list and find the one I’m looking for or one that might be a good fit.
Now, I know that there are specific communities like !community_community@slrpnk.net that is for this purpose as well, but I was wondering if it would be useful to have a simple automated solution sort of like how github searches for issues to see if your question (post) has already been asked.
I’d be curious to know other’s thoughts on the matter and if you think something like this could be a helpful addition or not.
No, but I’ve wanted to do something like that (similar to what PieFed does). Just haven’t gotten around to it yet. Unfortunately, there’s no API support for that in Lemmy, so the instance admins would have to manually populate it.
You’re not wrong. Side effect of having so many features and making UI compromises so everything that works on desktop works on mobile (without a dedicated ‘mobile’ mode) lol.
As I keep adding stuff, the menus get unwieldy so I have to come up with new ways to expose the features. Lately, I’ve settled on interactive modals which has cut the number of menus (and menu items) down considerably. On the other hand, I have practically no user guide docs, only admin/setup docs, so that is something I can work on to hopefully make it more approachable.
Your dedication is impressive all on its own:-). I cannot begin to imagine how difficult it must be to balance all of those types of design decisions, but as you say, you have a long list of things that you want to work through already, and keeping it “intuitive” is merely one among many other tasks, made all the more expensive by all the changes over time.
I was also pleased to hear that you would switch to Sublinks when that became available. Unfortunately it looks like that project is stalled a bit, but I hope that when PieFed comes out with an API that Tesseract would also be another way to interact with that backend as well. (But if not, it’s understandable - Sublinks was designed to be intercompatible with Lemmy, while PieFed is a whole other thing - so I’m not even “pushing” in the slightest, just expressing a naive hope based on no knowledge whatsoever of what various factors are involved!)
Thanks for the insight here, and for your friendliness in keeping the Fediverse running, making it a bit less hostile than it would otherwise feel without all of your contributions:-).