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I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important. I propose creating a quarterly pinned post on Lemmy asking users for complaints and suggestions. This way, developers can better understand the community’s biggest pain points and what to focus on. The goal is to provide constructive feedback so developers can prioritize the most pressing issues.

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  • Dandroid@dandroid.app
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    This has been suggested many times, but we need a way to link comments and posts in an instance-agnostic way. Getting pulled to a new instance when you click a link is very confusing for new users. Another use case that was common on reddit that won’t work without this feature is you can’t have a stickied post with links to other important posts in the community. People will get pulled into the instance that the linker is in, which means people who follow the link will be logged out (unless their account is on the same instance as OP) and won’t be able to interact with the post.

    This isn’t a nice-to-have feature. This is a must-have feature.

    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Until this is officially added, there are browser addons that will automatically convert links to your own home instance.

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        Yea LemmyLink gives you something to click on, but it gets slow on long pages because it replaces links themselves.

        InstanceAssistant you need to right click, but it’s fast. This one also lets you open a post back on your home instance, for if you already ended up somewhere. I use that more than the link conversion because usually I don’t need to comment on the posts so when I do, I click the button to redirect.

        They really need to handle them in Lemmy though

      • Dandroid@dandroid.app
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        Sure, and that’s great to know and remind people. You and I know how to workaround the issue, but the experience is broken for people who don’t. People who are new to lemmy don’t know that they need to install a browser extension. And that’s why this isn’t an acceptable solution. This needs to be a very high priority, and should be the next thing they work on after 0.19 release.

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          If there is an extension for it, it means that it can be implemented fully client-side.

          If it can be implemented client-side, it shouldn’t be implemented server side. It just makes things harder to scale and more expensive to run.

          Maybe this could be a feature request on lemmy-ui, but not for lemmy itself.