So I’ve been testing out various Lemmy clients these past few weeks, and while Connect’s my favorite so far, here are some things I picked up:

  • Instance downtime notifications would be useful

  • “Default sort for Posts” shouldn’t follow the most recent selection

  • “Preload images” (and videos) should be configurable separately for wi-fi and cellular

  • An actual blur would look better than the red NSFW overlay

  • “Show Upvotes and Downvotes” is fine, but percentages would be more convenient

  • “Scrolling past Posts marks as read” can be unreliable

  • Swipes aren’t fully exploited: disabling right swipes to accommodate people using Android devices like iPhones is debatable, but right edge swipes could easily be used to open “About Community” for example

  • The animation when opening a post’s action menu causes more “misclicks” than anything

  • Probably Lemmy-related, but a global block for communities (rather than per-instance) would save time

  • When sharing content, opening apps like Telegram within Connect is impractical

  • The expected behavior when pressing the back button repeatedly is to go back to the homepage then exit, not open the menu even when the top search drawer is open

  • The Android navigation bar is always black regardless of the current theme

  • Live search often doesn’t return exact matches unless expanded, which should also be doable by pressing Enter

  • Since comments aren’t colored by default, “+X points” would help distinguish from “-X points”, and it should either be “point” for 0 and +/-1 or “point(s)” for everything

  • Comment action bars should collapse after said actions are taken

  • When commenting, an auto-search after typing c/ or u/ would be useful

  • Draft previews don’t seem to work

  • Your own posts shouldn’t ever get hidden

  • An “Upvoted Posts” history would be nice

Now, this is all obviously subjective so feel free to disagree, but hopefully it’ll still help somewhat.

  • bloopernova@programming.devEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Many projects would kill to have good UX feedback like this. Thank you for taking the time to be constructive and clear!

    (I’m not affiliated with Connect at all)

  • Lemmington Bunnie@aussie.zone
    9·
    1 year ago

    Ooh, can I provide some feedback as well?

    It would be great to open websites in an external browser, but open images in the app.

    Sync provides this, but I’m looking for reasons to choose Connect as my app, and this is a big one for me.

    • Kuro@lemmy.caM
      8·
      1 year ago

      I think that’s ‘Open links in external browser’ in settings

      • Lemmington Bunnie@aussie.zone
        5·
        1 year ago

        Ok I could swear it was also opening images in the browser as well, but that seems to have been fixed. Maybe it’s just certain images.

        Yay, thanks devs! (Assuming it was changed/fixed!)

      • Lemmington Bunnie@aussie.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hey, you are the dev! Thanks, dev! 😍 Saw your comment in another Connect appreciation thread.

        Also, most images are opening in app, but I have seen a couple open in browser - can’t remember which image hosting sites sorry.

  • carlosfm@lemm.ee
    6·
    1 year ago

    Agreed, the back button opening the menu before exiting is a weird behaviour. Still, lemmy say this is the best app for lemmy and the developer is amazing

  • stck@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    1 year ago

    To add:

    When posting a link, I’d first like to paste the url, then press some kind of magical “guess the title” button.

  • Awri@programming.dev
    2·
    1 year ago

    This is nice, makes me want to try Connect.

    I’ve tried jerboa which was an error ridden terrible UX where they updated client behavior without giving option to toggle back.

    Then I switched to Liftoff which has been so much better than jerboa but still they also have this very annoying “swipe right to close thread” which gets me constantly kicked from posts while in a relaxed hand position accidentally swiping right trying to scroll and on top of it it doesn’t save remember which comment threads were collapsed so I have to reread scroll every single time…

    Does anyone know a lemmy client where I can browse without these gimmicky swipe gesture controls?

    Or know a list of lemmy clients that currently exist?

    It’s really hard to filter useful info from opinions, I think I’ll try just using them all.

    Edit: formating is weird

  • Swervish@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Agree with everything besides the instance vs global community blocking, having the option would be nice, but definitely not the default. This would make nsfw vs sfw accounts a nightmare.

  • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I think hitting About Instance on kbin should either give an error like “kbin and lemmy are different” or, if possible, show the actual instance kbin info