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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CyberSage@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

I'm super impressed by the features I'm discovering using Piefed! I'm going to be experimenting a lot with the keyword filter particularly. Here are some ideas we might add to make Piefed even better. Share you own in the replies.

Some of these options where too long to make it a poll.

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[-] INeedMana@piefed.zip 22 points 1 year ago

One vote action for all cross-post posts

[-] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Hmm, that is an interesting idea...

I might look into this one. Would something like voting buttons in the crosspost dropdown be an acceptable alternative? I think I would prefer to keep 1 action (click) means 1 vote, but making it easier to vote on crossposts makes sense with the way that piefed consolidates comments.

So, voting buttons here maybe? (no promises, just an idea) -

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[-] rimu@piefed.social 18 points 1 year ago
[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 1 year ago

Allow restricting posting and commenting to subscribers: https://lemmy.world/comment/18549782

[-] CyberSage@piefed.social 8 points 1 year ago

My ideal default would be, users have to subscribe to vote, because drive-by downvotes are very common, and keep niche communities from getting anywhere in the All feed.

[-] chromodynamic@piefed.social 6 points 1 year ago

Another reason is to avoid the Reddit problem of people upvoting of off-topic posts by people who don't pay attention to what community it's posted in. I don't think Piefed/Lemmy/etc. has those kind of users (yet) but it's good future-proofing.

[-] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 1 year ago

Currently the most popular suggestion is to have a "upvote this post and all it's cross posts” function, which would make that problem worse...

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[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 year ago

I think maybe only subscribers should be allowed to downvote, but anyone should be able to upvote

[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

On the other hand, sometimes posts get traction because a lot of people upvote them from All

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[-] socsa@piefed.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bring back pseudonymous voting agents. Literally the killer feature of piefed, killed by stupid forum politics.

I do not give a single goddamn fuck about brigading or vote manipulation whatever nonsense the fediverse admin cabal has convinced themselves matters on their discord stovepipe. Vites are not real. They cannot hurt you. I do not want my plaintext voting activity to be hoovered up by anyone listening to the activitypub feeds, which is already used to foster censorship and will inevitably be used to enable targeted astroturfing. Rimu, please be more brave about this.

Mark my words, this will be the "hindsight" issue a few years from now. "How the fuck did anyone think public voting was a good idea" will be the postmortem of the fediverse.

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[-] Bonus@piefed.social 9 points 1 year ago

Please put the bookmark/save button on the thingy down there. There's plenty of room.

Other than that and some kickass themes, I think PieFed is ahead of the curve in the lemmyverse ATM.

[-] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Do you mean on the bar with the voting buttons instead of being behind the three dots menu?

[-] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yup. We could make more room there by moving the collapse icon up to be near the author name?

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[-] CyberSage@piefed.social 8 points 1 year ago

Create a clear description of Piefed on the about page or another relevant page to direct users there instead of the code repository or specific instances.

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 year ago
[-] CyberSage@piefed.social 4 points 1 year ago

That's what I meant, I hadn't seen it before.

[-] CyberSage@piefed.social 7 points 1 year ago

Many posts don't have a language selected so 'content language' preference should either allow selecting those, or a setting to reverse it turning it into a block list with all languages automatically selected, then allow the user to deselect his language to block the rest.

[-] INeedMana@piefed.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Cross-posting text-only posts

[-] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

This is planned for the 1.2 release (at least it is on the kanban board).

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[-] CyberSage@piefed.social 6 points 1 year ago

Allow user to view only votes from the instance they are using

[-] QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 6 points 1 year ago

Somewhat related, it would be super interesting to get a breakdown of what the votes are like on a per instance basis. Maybe some sort of pie chart.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 8 points 1 year ago

Oooh, vote stats. How many from community subscribers vs. not, from each instance, perhaps a timeline of when they came in, etc. Reddit had something similar.

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[-] CyberSage@piefed.social 6 points 1 year ago

Allow voters to write their own choices in polls

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago

If you implement the poll like this one, then they already can πŸ˜‰

[-] CyberSage@piefed.social 4 points 1 year ago

But it allows downvotes, which isn't supposed to be allowed in a poll.

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[-] CyberSage@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago

Browse a list of communities sorted by their Monthly Active Users (MAU). It could make discovering popular or active communities a bit easier. Just a thought! It's not something I'm really missing.

[-] CyberSage@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago

User-created sorting methods: If the API exposes post metadata (e.g., timestamps, tags, upvotes, etc.), and the plugin system allows client-side scripting (e.g., JavaScript plugins), users could fetch post metadata and experiment implementing their own custom sorts in the browser.

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks devs for making piefed first of all I love the alternative.

I really disliked these two options being enabled by default without informing me at the very least. I ended up subscribed to a bunch of stuff I didn't want to be subscribed to before I figured out what caused it initially when I first signed up.

Honesty I don't know why anyone would want that as default behaviour?

I'd like to sort communities by Top X amount of time, IIRC that was already in the works.

Native image upload support so I don't need an app / uploading to imgbb manually sucks on a phone.

Edit: if it's cost prohibitive to store media uploads even with file size limits I'd like more external options for image hosts than for example Summit app who only offers imgur as an alternative. Or let users enter a custom image hoster url or something.

[-] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I'd like to sort communities by Top X amount of time, IIRC that was already in the works.

This is already live. If you are viewing a community, click Top in the bar and it should be a dropdown menu where you select the timerange:

If you are on a small mobile screen (like using the PWA), the different time options are listed out with the other sort options:

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[-] INeedMana@piefed.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Watch tags from mastodon, even if no community was pinged. "Tag as community" so to speak

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 year ago

that would require PieFed users to follow many many Mastodon users, that's the only way for Mastodon to alert PieFed about the posts

[-] INeedMana@piefed.zip 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I view a tag on my mastodon account, I see posts from people I don't follow because someone from my instance is following that person?

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 year ago

yes, or following someone that boosted it

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Add the ability to manually add a user, community, domain or instance block in the user settings like lemmy has.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firm up the foundationals: proper parsing of complex formatting (e.g. a bolded section within an italic section), which reminds me: enabling a Preview ability for comment replies to posts not just to existing comments. Also, the former might have already been done though I definitely recall instances in the past where it did not work.

Clean up notifications: e.g. if a post is deleted after you receive a notification about it, then either delete the notification also or at least let us see the post - it's super annoying to have a notification that goes nowhere.

Also, notification links should always actually go to the things they point at. On some posts the comments are now loading separately for some reason (perhaps if there's a lot of them? but even then why not load them at page start rather than delay?), which breaks the Notification links. Many things break those notification links actually. Another one is people from instances that you have blocked - you can't see the comment that the link tries to take you to anyway, so what use is the notification at that point? Either remove the latter or... something, maybe show the comment after all in that special case (except wait no, if you blocked everyone from an instance then likely you did so for a reason, and do not want notifications from them?).

Edit: here is an example link, where it looks like the Continue thread breaks the link to go where it needs to on the page.

These kinds of "polish" features that are still lacking are annoying and I for one would love to see them worked on, before adding all kinds of other features that I'll likely never use - whereas typing out comments and viewing notifications are the top 1/2 of all things that I do on PieFed (besides look at posts and vote on them:-P) so these would highly benefit from being polished! πŸ˜„

Though I still love PieFed even while having to wait for them too. 😊

[-] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

I've done a lot of work on the markdown to html edge cases. So, I think things like bold and italics intermingling and garbling each other shouldn't happen any more. If it does, feel free to let me know!

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 year ago

Oh that's wonderful! I tried to test out bold within italics and italics within bold and both worked... this time. Thank you for your efforts, they are super appreciated!

More generally, I love being proven wrong about PieFed. On Lemmy if you say "this feature does not exist", then five years later it's still an accurate statement, whereas on PieFed... it's so hard to keep up with because it's so readily changed, by such dedicated fans like... well, YOU! πŸ˜ŠπŸŽ‰πŸ’ͺ🀩

[-] chromodynamic@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know if these already exist, but thinking long-term of how to prevent Reddit-like problems:

  • An option to move a post to a different community (with the agreement of the other community's moderators) if the post is in the wrong community, but otherwise seems valid/good-faith/high-effort/etc.

  • And for the opposite situation where the post is just garbage, but highly upvoted by bots/brigading, there could be a "nuke it from orbit" option that not only deletes it and bans the poster, but also bans everyone that upvoted it.

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