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).

  • mvmnts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I would really love to see a light theme. The current theme is absolutely gorgeous, but I’m one of those weirdos that just likes light themes better. During the day the eye strain on the dark theme is a bit much.

  • scytale@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Minor suggestion: Return to top button. I know I can just refresh the page to get back to the top to change my sort settings, but I think it would be useful.

    Another one would be a black option for the interface color. The closest I could get for a “dark mode” experience is dark blue.

    Also, more compatibility with posts that have gifs so they can be opened within the page.

    Love the app btw, please continue doing what you do!

    • sheodox@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Minor suggestion: Return to top button. I know I can just refresh the page to get back to the top to change my sort settings, but I think it would be useful.

      Will do! I also want that button.

      Do you happen to have a link to a post somewhere so I can test out the gif stuff?

      Love the app btw, please continue doing what you do!

      Thanks! I always love hearing that.

  • Dave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Love the interface! It seems to have solved all of my remaining issues with Lemmy in one gorgeous package!

    I’d love to be able to:

    1. Pin the left hand side bar so that it is always visible (much like the right-hand one)
    2. Be able to favourite communities so that they appear at the top of the list in the left hand side bar.

    And if these two things sound remarkably like “new” Reddit, then you’re right… I’m unashamedly a fan of that layout and having it here would make me feel right at home :)

    Thanks again!

  • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Hello, really love the app it is beautiful.

    Could you please add the reports icon / ability to access it for moderators as of now I browse using this but i cannot access the /reports page

    this is on base lemmy

    and this is Alexandrite

        • sheodox@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I actually haven’t added any of those popups when typing things yet, so you’ll have to wait I’m afraid!

            • sheodox@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              By the way, I’ve never really modded a community so I’d love to hear what you think would be useful features.

              So far I’m adding:

              • the reports page as it shows in the screenshot (you can ban/unban users, remove/unremove posts/comments) and ban reporters if they’re being bad (though this has some issues, I haven’t been able to figure out how to check if they’re banned unless they’ve made a post/comment that also shows up in the /report feed, hence the “Unsure if banned” messages)
              • remove/ban buttons from the little down arrow menu button on comments and posts
              • mod log page

              What else would you want?

              • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                Those are all great, maybe adding the M and A badges to indicate a user is a moderator or admin.

                Having the mod tools available from the report screen is fantastic, along with the link to comment icon.

                Maybe a section in the three line menu in the top left that has “Communities Moderating” above the subscribed ones, or placing the communities you moderate at the top of subscribed communities list.

                The icon to pin / lock a post in a community is missing:

                Accessed through the little down arrow menu button on posts.

                Also the appoint as mod button that would be accessed from the little down arrow icon on posts/comments

                That is all I can think of at this point but I’ll edit this comment If I think of anything else.

                Thanks again!!!

  • Valen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have accounts on multiple lemmy servers (2 main ones, and one “alternate” one. I haven’t decided which main one to use exclusively). I’d like to be able to swap between them the way I can on the various android apps.

    • sheodox@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I was planning on implementing this soon! Because they are all pretty related I wanted to do an account/profile switcher at the same time as I also:

      • put the instance in URLs like Voyager does so links to Alexandrite are sharable and don’t require you to be logged in to the same instance as the person sending the link
      • support self-hosting Alexandrite
  • Paralda@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Default comment sorting would be awesome. I usually sort comments by “top”, and having to press that every time I load a new post is kind of annoying

  • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Is there any plan to add the markdown image functionality of the base U.I, either the small picture icon to prompt an upload or the ability to paste an image into the post/comment box to have it upload and inster with the proper markdown?

    Also any thoughts on adding the archive prompt for a url post?

    I’ve been recommending this project to everyone i know online that uses the lemmyverse

    • sheodox@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Image uploading is something I really want to add because it’s the biggest missing feature and I think it could be done better than the official UI does it. Unfortunately I can’t add it quite yet because I’m not able to upload images unless I proxy them through Alexandrite’s servers (which is what Voyager does). This is the issue on Lemmy’s Github that I’m waiting on.

      I was thinking of adding the archive links around the time I add the image uploading.

      I’ve been recommending this project to everyone i know online that uses the lemmyverse

      Thanks! It’s been getting a lot of attention lately which is exciting and scary. This is by far the most attention any of my side projects have gotten, and it’s pretty cool to see so many people enjoying something I made!

      • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Makes perfect sense, didn’t see it on the feature request so thought I’d pop it in.

        Attention well deserved you’ve made something terrific.

    • sheodox@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • kid2908@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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 :))

        • sheodox@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          1·
          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.

  • Steve63457@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It would be nice to have the option to go from one post directly to the next one, ideally also with hotkeys. Especially in image based communities it would be a timesaver to just hit right arrow (or whatever hotkey) to see the next image post.

    • sheodox@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I like this idea. Could you elaborate on how you’d want it to work? Like if you were focused on the list, maybe j/k would go up and down in the post list and show a different post in the overlay/column, or when focused on the post shift+j/k whould go between posts and j/k would scroll between comments or something? What do you think about something like that?

      • Steve63457@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That would work. I’m not too sue what scrolling between the comments would do exactly. Isn’t that the purpose already of the scroll wheel / page up & down?

        • sheodox@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I was thinking more like to quickly scroll between top level comments. Lots of mobile apps for reddit had buttons for that.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Being able to save/favourite a comment. It’s available for posts but not comments … even though the best stuff is always buried in the comments!!

    Also, most or even all of the menu options lemmy provides for comments are probably useful. Seeing the source can be useful for seeing how markdown works and copying text. The blocking and reporting options are probably important too. And the “send message/DM” option could also come in handy (?)

    • sheodox@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Hey I just added all of this, and a few extra options on posts. Also you can manage blocked users in the settings too.

      All of it is stuffed in an overflow menu, so I didn’t bother showing the loading indicator and stuff like I do with the other actions. Maybe I should add some more toasts for successful actions too (everywhere, not just here).

      Edit: Moved ‘save’ out of the overflow menu to match posts.