Good point, this is one of those features which is already implemented in the backend but not added to lemmy-ui yet. Made a pull request for it.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3220/files

Lemmy has an open API, and instance admins have even more data available by accessing the database directly. One of the lemmy.world admins is also working on a feature for vote analytics, though at Lemmy’s current size it seems very low priority.

I thought about that too, have to figure out how it can be implemented (im not very good at frontend stuff).

No worries. Make sure to follow the documentation on join-lemmy.org for development, and use the release/v0.19 branch for both lemmy and lemmy-ui as the main branch is currently broken due to 1.0 changes.

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?

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3219

The tabs could make sense, but then they should be between the search bar and results, because each tab has the same buttons. You can make a pull request with what you have so far and then we can discuss it in detail.

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.

Yes exactly.

Its basically a collection of communities, so you can browse multiple related communities at the same time. Piefed already implements this under a different name:

https://piefed.social/feeds

https://piefed.social/f/cinema

This is already implemented, admins can specify a “suggested” multi-community which will be shown next to Subscribed/Local/All just like you say.

Thanks this is very useful feedback. Especially the search box in community sidebar would be very useful and easy to add. Formatting for community ids should also be easy to improve. A bit later when I have time I will implement these things, and then make a post in the Help Design Lemmy Series regarding search.

By the way basic reading is working for me in Tor browser with JS disabled. Though buttons like switching Local/All, sorting and of course forms like register, login and search are not supported. We could use contributors to help fix these things.

You can setup a Lemmy community and link it in all your project repos. Sooner or later people will show up.

In what way is the search function in Lemmy awkward to use, is there anything specific that can be fixed? You are right about subtopics, and also Lemmy normally doesnt show discussions organized by topic on the frontpage. That can be changed though with different frontends like lemmyBB.

Sounds like a variant of Doom. Now I want to play this game and shoot up the monsters.

Thanks :)

Fully agree that theres too much politics. Like you say too often about attacking some kind of enemy rather trying to understand other perspectives. For better or for worse, those seem to be the types of people more likely to use a new platform like Lemmy. Hopefully in the future they will also get tired of this stuff.

Thank you, all donations help :)

Liberapay is preferable as it has low fees and is also open source.

I actually got in contact with them yesterday, will probably have a meeting soon to discuss how we can work together with them.

Liberapay is the best option, because it doesnt take any fees beyond payment processing, and its also open source. Thanks for donating!