In a recent discussion it was mentioned that the search function in Lemmy is awkward to use and could be improved. As a result I already made two small changes:
- Change community selector to use
!community@example.comformat (#3218) - Search field in community sidebar (#3217)
Are there any other UI or UX changes you can think of to improve searching in Lemmy? Im mainly looking for frontend changes, such as reorganizing the input positions, changing default values etc.
When you do a search and it returns a mix of communities, posts, comments, users… They all sorta jumble together in weird ways. Maybe the content type of the search should not default to “All” maybe it should default to “Posts” or even just blank (forcing the user to choose).
Also the mixed results all jumble together, communities and users are tiny lines of text compared to posts and comments, maybe they need to have borders or more spacing. And maybe add more info next to communities and users.
Makes sense. My idea is to use a fixed order for the different types of results, eg always put communities first, then users etc. What do you think? For communities it would make sense to display the short description as well, and for users both post and comment count?
Yea I don’t think it makes any sense to try to sort these items against each other. Maybe section headers would be nice too, a title for the
Communities:section, etc?I thought about that too, have to figure out how it can be implemented (im not very good at frontend stuff).
As far as I remember, the loading indicator disappears when the local search is finished and the search appears to be done, even when the remote search is continuing. This makes finding a new remote community pretty awkward.
Right, this is because it currently uses two separate api calls for search and resolve object. It will be fixed in 1.0 with https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5752.
When resizing Lemmy in browser to half screen by dragging it to the side my top bar with communities and create post dissapears.
have you tried clicking the hamburger menu in the top right?
Ah thanks there it is. I thought it would be next to the other big buttons
I have taken a bit to realize this before too. Maybe the hamburger button could be highlighted better when the page is in that narrow layout?
I think the communities button is especially important because it’s mainly how I navigate Lemmy. Create post is handy too. Create community not really.
@Nutomic can we get these buttons back in smaller view?
add a big button that says “kill this redditor” you just press it and lemmy assassins kill the guy… Also add lemmy gold.
