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What are the biggest upgrades/fixes that you would like to see done to Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by 3nt3r@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me its having a single instance that indexes all the communites to which all other instances can then pull that information from so when I go searching for communities the I’ll have access to every single one with needing to post the entire URL in the search bar

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[–] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because you joined the largest community. It's much more cumbersome for smaller communities.

[–] Fashtas@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed. The largest weak point for me.

I have to go to third party site where I can see a list of communities, find one, copy some url, go back to my instance and search then paste the url.

At this point I get nothing, or 404, or a nothing found error. Generally this is where it stalls, and i give up and come back half an hour later if I remember and try again.

This time the search may find the community, but has failed to do so several times. Still trying to subscribe to a pathfinder community which I started trying to do earlier this morning

[–] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Usually, I search for the URL, but it gives no results. However, in the backend my lemmy instance is downloading a bunch of posts from that instance, and when I look at my list of communities, it's suddenly there. Awful user experience, but it works. I'm sure this will improve in the future.