Programming.Dev Feature Requests

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• popcar2@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Flairs and ability to block instances as a user would be soooooo nice. Thank you.

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  • mark@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve always felt like the blocking should happen at the user level and muting should be at the instance-level. Feels odd for admins be able to prevent users from seeing content.

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    • Reader9@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Feels odd for admins be able to prevent users from seeing content

      My understanding is those admins aren’t just allowing users to view it but also allowing copies of the federated data to be stored on the server those admins are responsible for, so for certain types of content it seems really important to be implemented in this way.

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• mark@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is great news! What happens if the Lemmy devs dont accept the changes upstream, though? 🙂

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  • Ategon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then it’ll be a feature only in our site and any other sites using our version of lemmy

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    • mark@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh ok seems fine as long as the code continues to merge cleanly with upstream. But once that stops happening, could be hard to continue development without branching off and going our own way.

      Will the custom code be open source and made available to us? If so, where would that be?

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  • philm@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think this will be a very big issue for the majority of the cases though. As long as it’s configurable and not a (very) controversial change.

    What I have observed so far: I think the maintainers are relatively open to changes (compared to a few other open source repos).

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• WierdWebDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would like the ability to hide posts, that way I don’t keep seeing posts I’ve already viewed or not interested in.

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  • philm@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pretty sure, that there’s already a github issue on lemmy itself (too lazy currently to search it though)

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    • WierdWebDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ah sorry, I was just going off the list in the OP. I’m fairly new here.

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• qwertyasdef@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No idea how hard it would be but it would be nice to have code blocks with syntax highlighting like on Github, so you could write something like

  ```python
  def f(x):
      return x
  ```
  

  and get syntax highlighted code def f(x): return x

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  • Ategon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah also have that planned as one of the first things I put in since we’re a coding site, forgot to put it on the list. Shouldn’t be that bad since there’s libraries for it

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• graphito@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just listing some features I find valuable, some of them got issues already

  • Migrating communities to another instance
  • Ability to subscribe to communities in bulk
  • Notification for new communities on particular instance
  • subscribe to post replies when you’re not the poster
  • mentions by username notification
  • subscribed + local/feed together
  • local/all feed without subscribed
  • mark as read on posts

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• canpolat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is great. I think “instance post/comment links” would be a great addition to Lemmy core in general, but don’t know how easy it would be to implement. What I have in mind is: when someone provides a link to a post/comment in another instance, it would be converted to a link the person is logged in from. I think it would be OK to leave the link as is but add an icon next to it that goes to the correct URL for that instance.

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  • Ategon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah no idea how that would be connected. I know theres an extension that does it so I might need to look at the source for that

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    • canpolat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I believe there is an API to convert such a link, but detecting that a link is going to a Lemmy instance might be difficult (or non-elegant).

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