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Feature request: hide server in community names on communities list (vlemmy.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

Guess it's never too early to start thinking about features we'd like to see in Boost for Lemmy!

I was scrolling down my list of subbed communities just now and reflecting that the "@(server)" part of the community names makes it harder to quickly read them (for me at least).

I know that - this being the fediverse - you might sub to two communities with the same name but on different servers (eg. Football@[server]) but I would imagine that the majority of users will just pick one and on the day to day they won't be terribly concerned where exactly that community is being hosted.

I think it'd be neat if you could select to hide the server part of the community name in Boost's list, or at least make it less prominent in the name visually (e.g. - the actual name part in a highlight colour, the server part in a grey/other colour that blends in against the backdrop).

Thanks 🙂

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as that's optional. I'd much rather know exactly which community I'm looking at.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, it should definitely be optional. Fully appreciate that there will be folk who really care about the federated dimension to all of this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this is available it definitely needs to be an option, and I think it probably needs to not be the default. I know I like to know which instances I'm interacting with, and I think it makes sense because that's part of the point of the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, I would agree on both counts - default behaviour should be people see servers in some respect, and those who are annoyed enough by it (like me) will go looking for the option :)

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

Honestly, I think it's important that people sub to all the same-subject communities across the Fediverse. However.. the only time it's really important to make the distinction is while creating a post. I hope we get the equivalent of 'multireddits' for all spaces with the same subject.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had not considered the idea of subbing to multiple same-name communities across servers and using the multi-reddit model to pull them into a single feed, but that actually makes all the sense in the world - e.g. would enable folk who want the 'edgier' content of a topic to sub to an instance stored on a server which allowed that material as well as a more mainstream one and then combine them into one seamless view.

I like this fediverse stuff!

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

Yes, please! And the same goes for user names. You for example have an @vlemmy.net behind yours, but I couldn't give a rats ass what instance you signed up for. Especially since some of these instances have incredibly dumb and/or hard to read names (sh.itjust.works for example)

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

Definitely! I'm using Wefwef for the time being app-wise and I hadn't even noticed this because I think it actually does hide the server name on user accounts - I just see your name right now. Cleaner for sure!

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

I completely agree with you! Out of curiosity did you sign up to multiple instances or only one? Thanks a lot, R.I.P Reddit, fuck u/spez!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just the one here - immediately had FOMO of course because it feels like everyone else is on Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml, but I'm trying to resist the urge to swap given the whole point is that it shouldn't really matter all that much...