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sheodox / alexandrite

A beautiful and convenient desktop-first alternate web UI for Lemmy.
https://alexandrite.app
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Some suggestions #16

Open Diagonet opened 1 year ago

Diagonet commented 1 year ago

Hey, as you said Im making an issue here for my suggestions to this awesome app:

1- Allow setting default sort method separately for post and comments: some other apps allow this and I think its great cause I prefer to sort posts by hot/top(6hrs) and comments always to top.

2- Different user colour for OP: the little OP flair is ok but personally I think this would be even better.

3- Leave a comment interface collapsed by default: maybe Im not the norm here but I for every 20 posts I browse the comment I might leave one post, so having to scroll past that every time feels like wasted space.

4- Customizable column width: would be neat if I could make the last column a bit smaller for example.

5- Wanted to second the suggestion to remove the 'Go' button and just refresh when you select a new option.

That's all I can think of right now but thank you for making this and also going through my suggestions. I completely understand if any are too much work or dont fit your vision for this app ofc.

Diagonet commented 1 year ago

Oh one more: 6- Clicking either on Alexandrite or the Icon (both at the top left of the page) should not only return to Home but also reload it if you are already there.

sheodox commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestions! I like these. Some comments and a fix for you:

1- Allow setting default sort method separately for post and comments: some other apps allow this and I think its great cause I prefer to sort posts by hot/top(6hrs) and comments always to top.

I could see Lemmy adding this as a setting at some point. I've been shying away from adding settings for things that I imagine Lemmy would officially support in the future because I imagine it'd be annoying if one day I migrate to using Lemmy's setting and everyone needs to go back and change their Lemmy settings back to what they set in Alexandrite before that, but maybe I could make a new "Experimental" tab in the settings for things like this. I'd imagine people would be more willing to put up with change then.

2- Different user colour for OP: the little OP flair is ok but personally I think this would be even better.

I agree, I'm not a fan of the color I chose either, but I like that the OP flair makes it obvious that's what it means. Maybe I could do both? What do you think about something like this? I actually like the color a bit more now. image

Or maybe a peach color instead of pink image

3- Leave a comment interface collapsed by default: maybe Im not the norm here but I for every 20 posts I browse the comment I might leave one post, so having to scroll past that every time feels like wasted space.

I just released a change that makes the comment interface remember its open state. It still is defaulted to open, but if you close it it'll be closed on every subsequent post you look at until you open it!

Diagonet commented 1 year ago

1- Had no idea of that, just saw it on the app I use on my phone and thought it would be nice haha

2- Oh yeah, I did hope for both and I like those colors as well, tho I think how good they are depends on the hue selected?

3- Awesome, just awesome. Thanks!

sheodox commented 1 year ago

2- That's definitely true. I'm planning at some point to support more theme customization so you'd be able to customize those eventually.

Diagonet commented 1 year ago

Two more suggestions (hope thats fine):

7- When you click on the little comments icon from a post, it could open the post and jump directly to the comments.

8- Not sure how much work this would be, I assume it might be quite a bit, but with reddit enhanced I could resize an image from a post by clicking on it and dragging (up/left: image gets smaller, down/right: image gets bigger).

sheodox commented 1 year ago

7 - Yeah I agree, I want to do that at some point.

8 - Yes I really want to make a good image viewer, still brainstorming how I want to do it though!

Diagonet commented 1 year ago

Ah fair enough, good luck and thanks for taking my suggestions into account

bronze6714 commented 2 months ago

7- When you click on the ~little comments icon~ bottom padding from a post, it could open the post and jump directly to the comments. Or a remembered toggled behavior of Show Content/Hide Content icon.