Can we please not have a default avatar? I specifically want no avatar.

if you change tab with then your space alignment breaks

No, it doesn’t? Here’s the exact same text content with different tab widths:

The tabs are smaller but the spaces are the same, so the alignment remains.

But with tabs each contributor is free to choose how the indent looks. If it looks horrible on some system, that’s a configuration issue.

Tabs make more sense because that’s exactly what they’re for, indents. Ignoring how it looks, which makes more semantic sense for an indent, <indent character> or <space character><space character>? You wouldn’t use a bunch of spaces to indent a paragraph, so why would you use it to indent code?

Generally aligning stuff isn’t nice. But if you do, it’s tabs up to whatever level of indentation you’re at then spaces the rest of the way. So you wouldn’t have to assume a tab size. And the tabs and spaces have different semantic meaning (indent vs alignment) so mixing them makes sense. It’s even built into Jetbrains IDEs, where it’s called “Smart Tabs”.

Although really just adding a level of indent is better than aligning.

What kind of visual are you thinking for the grouping? Underlines, separators, spacing, something else?

I’m not seeing that, it’s all the same link for me.

Sounds like you want a few new reddit features when this site is more modeled on old reddit as many people prefer that.

> On post listings images thumbnails are too small, and the post has no direct link to the image.

How big would you want them to be? From a quick check they seem to be about the same size as new reddit’s “classic” mode, about 100px wide by 80px tall. The main difference is lemmy doesn’t crop the image to make it fix that box exactly.

And they do have a direct link, you should see it when hovering on the thumbnail, and middle clicking will open it in a new tab.

> I am not using old Reddit design. I like being able to open a post, and at the end close it (click to the side of it) and be back to the listing. On Lemmy I have to work with tabs or back navigation.

Those are pretty different UX philosophies and I doubt Lemmy would go for the former. Personally that’s one of the things I hate about new reddit. All I can say there is middle click is your friend for opening new tabs.

> Comment upvote and downvote should be to the side, like on posts. That’d be more obvious and visually consistent.

The idea there is that you have to actually read through the comment before providing your opinion on it.

> Dropdown for reply language selection is suboptimal to say the least.

How else would you accomplish that?

> Edit should be a primary toolbar action. Not hidden within a collapsed section.

Yeah probably.

> But then visual separation is missing again between the different types of actions.

What do you mean there? There’s decent spacing and different icons. I can’t think of anything else to do besides color.

(As a note: I contributed a bit to the functionality of post listings, but I’m not a lemmy dev)

I’m curious what your problems with the UI are? To me it’s pretty close to old reddit.

What lies? Pushing back against western propaganda isn’t lying.

what I’m surprised about is to find people like you in the main instance of lemmy. I thought that they were contained into the lemmygrad sub but I was wrong, you somehow made your way to the mainstream meeting point.

Do you not know what the ml in lemmy.ml is supposed to mean? It’s Marxist-Leninist. This is a general purpose instance, but it was made by “tankies” as you’d probably call them.

Adding the community name is a big help, and like I said, the post title can be there but not canonical. https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy/post/152773/Lemmy_URLs_should_be_human-meaningful would work just as well as https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy/post/152773.

But purely title based URLs is a really bad idea. Multiple posts can have the same title.

Also I don’t see the reason why /post/ helps with readability more than /p/.

Just nicer tbh.

https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy/post/XYZ123 as the canonical url would be best IMO. Then the title following can be optional. But post instead of p seems like a good idea, not too much longer, but helps readability. c instead of community is fine because 1) community is kinda long and 2) the single letter prefix for communities is pretty well established by reddit and among all of its clones.

Edit: comments would then be https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy/post/XYZ123/comment/ABC456. Really just take the current address and add the community name. Plus the title as an optional path segment for readability.

Hi, I’m a dev from hexbear and it looks like my first UI changes (relating to post listings) were included in this release.

Here are the changes I made:

• Expanded image and body now show below the rest of the listing.
  • And also offset to not be under the votes and thumbnail.
• Post title doesn’t jump to a new line when you expand the image.
• Thumbnail doesn’t disappear when you expand the image.
  • Does not apply on mobile since things don’t jump around as much.
• Clicking expanded image opens the original in a new tab.
  • Does not apply on mobile since you can just long press.
  • Instead tapping the image closes it.
• pictrs images now prefer the original format over jpg.
• Rendering split into many functions to improve readability.
• Post actions are now on the same line as the comments button.
• Post actions now show on mobile.
• Comments button made larger.
• Expanding or contracting an image now expands or contracts the body.

I’d love to hear any feedback or ideas anyone here may have.