I’ve introduced two of my friends (not into tech) to Lemmy. Since they’re not into tech this is their first web forum.

I’ve explained the federation thru the usual email metaphore and that’s ok, but to lookup for communities is not quite there on client side.

Let me explain.
He wanted to see all the communities on an instance because that instance is in his native language but he’s registered on another instance. So to see all those communities you must go on instance.domain/communities, copy the name of the community you are interessed in and paste it inside the app/web client to look it up.

And to see all the communities all over the fediverse you must use lemmyverse.net which is a cool site, but still you got to copy paste back and forth to the app.

This could be implementend inside app itself by listing all communities and add ability to filter by things like instance.

Obviously open to discussion about the issue itself and how that could be improved.

Feel free to tag apps/clients devs to ear their opinion too.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    66 months ago

    One annoying thing is that it’s sorted by the original posting date, not the time you saved it,

    Sadly, an API limitation. When fetching saved posts, you only have the same sorting options as when you fetch posts for a community or the main feed, and those are based on publish date.

    Same reason you can’t search your saved items: saved_only isn’t a flag you can pass to the search endpoint :(

    • Aurelius
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      66 months ago

      I was about to reply the same thing lol API is pretty limiting with what can be done. Gotta get creative!

    • Deebster
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      36 months ago

      Ah, so it’s not even possible with a different front-end (unless it stores extra data).

      • Admiral Patrick
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        36 months ago

        Basically, yeah. The app would have to basically fetch and store the posts and comments locally and search its own copy of them.

        That’s something ive been looking into since I’m also looking to provide offline support. Just not quite there yet lol.