It surprised me that the communities list can’t be sorted by clicking on column headers; especially because the mouse cursor becomes a pointing-finger when hovering over them.

I scanned through the comments here and I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet, but I would love, love, love to have an option added to settings to open links in a new tab (or possibly windows if some people would prefer that). The current behavior is to open in the current tab, which I am so unaccustomed to I keep closing the tab when I’m done with it rather than hitting the back arrow.

It’s quite jarring to not open in a new tab these days, especially for external links.

On the homepage lemmy.world, new posts keep appearing at the top even when not sorting by new. This causes annoying layout shift, especially when browsing all communities, not just local ones. (I use Firefox / Win 10)

In the comment listing, each comment first has an avatar, then the username, then the [—] button to collapse the comment thread. Observation: Because username length varies from comment to comment, the [—] button is in a different horizontal position. Consequence: As a user, it is tedious to collapse several comment threads because I have to search for that [—] button.

Request: put the [—] button as first item, to the left of the avatar and username.

I have my viewing type set to “All” on my settings but when I go to the index page (lemmy.world), it’s set to Local.

Not sure if it’s an issue or just a symptom of lack of large communities yet but I also tend to see the same posts on the top every time (“If we want this to work out make content do not just lurk”, “All the sad” and “important rulepost”).

Edit: Also there’s an issue when posting. I click “Post” and it gets stuck in the spinning icon despite my profile indicating my comment has been posted successfully.

When browsing in a fullscreen window the available themes only use about 25% of the horizontal screen space for content, and each post uses up a large amount of vertical space, with most of it being wasted space. Something more compact like old.reddit would be nice.

New posts appear “live” at the top of the frontpage regardless of what sorting method is chosen. This disrupts the reading process and minimizes any expanded image view. Is there any way to disable this “live feed” behavior?

Also, the “sorting help” button points to a dead link.

An Improvement I would like to see:

When scrolling my front page, I would like to be able to click the thread picture to a) see the ‘body of the post’ prior to entering the thread and b) if it is a picture be able to ‘drag to resize’ prior to entering the thread… I know these would all take a while to do, but it would be what I would like most.

The upvote/downvote (or whatever you call it here) sometimes freaks out a bit.

Duh. I couldn’t log in because I’d entered my password incorrectly.
It would be nice if Lemmy told me, though, rather than just showing me an infinite spinner.

~~I can’t log in on Firefox Mac or Safari Mac, but I can log in with Firefox Windows and Jeroba Android. On Mac, when I hit the Login button it just spins. No cookies are being set, and as far as I can tell there’s no network activity. My password is less than 32 characters, which I read somewhere can cause issues.

edit: I tried spoofing Windows and Linux User-Agents on the Mac, but it didn’t work.
edit2: I can log in from Safari now. Seems to be a Firefox configuration error, but I don’t know how to troubleshoot it.~~

My homepage keeps dynamically adding posts so when I scroll, it loses my place on the page. Is there a setting that I’m missing here?

Would it be possible to have replies in the notifications automatically be marked as “read” when I interact with them (by upvoting, for example)? Sure, clicking “mark all as read” is only one extra click, but it would make it just that little bit more seamless.

(I’m going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that’s ok)

Enhancement requests: Again, might be better addressed lemmy-wide, but as a mod, I think there is no way to “sticky” or “pin” a reply to an existing thread, so that it stays at the top. This would be useful for “official” replies in the voice of a moderator, and I imagine it will be useful in future if mods ever need to lock posts and have to explain why.

Lemmy is an interesting alternative to Reddit. I like the fact that it uses instances, which means that communities can in theory exist without getting nuked.

I haven’t been here too long, but here are some things I would like to see:

1. When sorting posts by categories (especially by new), add the ability to pause real time updates.
2. In the profile section, add a checkbox to unblur NSFW content permanently.

Request: Saved and Upvoted tabs up at the top next to Communities, Create Post, and Create Community.