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Better mod tools. From a moderator (not admin) PoV:

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ability to tag users and annotate things about them, preferably in a way that is visible for the rest of the mod team
a list of the most recent comments+posts in the community
some sort of automatic warning, based on keywords

Specifically for the desktop browser interface (IDK how much it applies to other interfaces), it would be great if the [M] for moderator was a tiny bit less evident when you’re just posting/commenting as a user, but there was a stronger highlight when speaking officially. Plenty times I feel the need to start the comment with [speaking as a mod], as that shield icon is easy to miss.

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ericjmorey@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

a list of the most recent comments+posts in the community

Are the the moderator views not what you’re asking for here?

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- lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The mod view only shows you the posts, not the comments. To see the newer comments you still need to open each post individually.
  
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  - ericjmorey@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You may not have noticed:
    
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    lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I didn’t! Now I feel like a muppet. Thank you for pointing it out.
    
    (Holy fuck I was in desperate need for something already there.)
    
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    Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks
    
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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I spent a long time looking at it.

I think what it boils down to is hackability. The friction comes from people being unable to modify their experience, or the experience of their users, without going through this crazy process that involves it going all the way up to two Lemmy devs for the entire universe of users, and then something getting changed, and then it going all the way back down to the moderator or whoever, after the site admin upgrades the entire site. Or, going rogue and starting to change the code for their instance, which of course only the admin can do and voids the warranty.

I wasn’t trying to become a Lemmy dev. I just wanted to make my instance neat, and I like to tinker. But I’m glad that people took the question seriously enough to give real, detailed answers about what would make things better. Lemmy is already designed to separate the backend and frontend very cleanly. I think it wouldn’t be too hard (famous last words…) to make the frontend more hackable to make at least some of these into easier things to do at an end-user or end-administrator level.

It might be good to look at other software, too. I was thinking Lemmy, but the goal is the neat stuff, not the Lemmy part of it.

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- Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  the Lemmy devs are currently working on a plugin system github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4695
  
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  - PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Worked on, it sounds like.
    
    This is outstanding. What I was thinking was UI plugins or custom frontends per-user, effectively, so it would fill in a needed niche on top of the backend plugins. Maybe they’ve done something in the UI area already.
    
    This is really good to know.
    
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    Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well they’re still working on it. I don’t even think it’s planned to get into v0.20.0. They’ve been hoping to get feedback from people but they haven’t really gotten any feedback yet and not many people have tried making plugins for it yet.
    
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