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Alexandrite is a desktop-first alternative Lemmy client.

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What are your most wanted features? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It makes it easier to prioritize what I work on if I know someone's wanting a feature. What sort of stuff do you wish Alexandrite had? Especially talking about missing features from the main UI.

If you can, please provide some explanation for why you would like that feature and what problem it would solve for you (unless of course it's a feature that Lemmy has already but Alexandrite doesn't support yet). Knowing what problem you want solved helps me work with you to brainstorm ideas for the best solution (see the XY problem).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A button to expand all image

Do you mean a button that makes all the posts in your feed have their content expanded by default? Like the "Show Content" button does? Or only expand images and not link previews/text posts?

Do you want this because you want to be able to see the image attached to a post full size instead of a thumbnail so you can see it without clicking the post? I was planning on adding alternate layouts for the post list at some point. If you had the option to view the post list as cards with full sized images, like what Voyager (wefwef) does, would you prefer that instead?

ability to browse page by page

Do you just prefer having next/previous page buttons, or is it because you want to not lose your place if you scrolled a bunch? I ask because I've been trying to brainstorm a way to allow users to resume from the page they were last on. Like if you're on the home page and click a link, then you go back to the home page I was thinking of having a button like Resume from page 37, and clicking that would clear the feed and start showing you posts from page 37 onward. Would that help?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean a button that makes all the posts in your feed have their content expanded by default? Like the “Show Content” button does? Or only expand images and not link previews/text posts?

I originally only wanted to expand images but expand all content work too. But I like it as a button then a layout, some times I wanted to find a post I had browsed past, I could collapse all post and then try find it.

Or maybe a button at the end of a post to collapse that specific post, most of the buttons to interact with the post is at the start too. Some posts could be very long, I might not want to scroll past it again.

This work best for me when I browse page by page on reddit with res, because the button show all images is at the top of the page :))

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or maybe a button at the end of a post to collapse that specific post, most of the buttons to interact with the post is at the start too. Some posts could be very long, I might not want to scroll past it again.

I just tried this and it's nice, but when you scroll past a long post and then hit the "Hide Content", unless I make it scroll back up to the post you just collapsed, now the space the expanded post used to occupy is filled with more posts you might have scrolled past some. Not sure what's the best thing to do here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

been trying to brainstorm a way to allow users to resume from the page they were last on

This is kinda where my columnar layout obsession comes from (sorry!). Keeping each column as independent as possible can work really well (if you're into columns like I am). I've mentioned this before, but mastodon's columnar layout might be worth looking into, because they're both independent, and, in the case of the "Main view column", which shows the stuff you select to view, has a "Back" button at the top while keeping the others independent and static.

Let me know if I get too loud about columns! I know not everyone likes them!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That would be nice. I still haven't played with it on Mastodon yet.

Nah you're good! The current implementation is really simple, and the stuff you're suggesting is a lot more complicated so I'm still just trying to figure out how I want to solve the technical challenges of it before adding anything. :)