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  • Ah must remember wrong or maybe it was proposed!

    Yeah the software would need to know, but in a way “lemmy” knows because it knows which instances your instance is federating with. If your instance isn’t federating with the link target it cant find it anyway.

    Same as the ! Exclamation mark for communities or @ for users it can do a look up (you can put my link to your search input in lemmy and it will find it), but there would be otherways to achieve this too.

    But yeah it would be really nice to have some universal way like the ! And @ signs to point to another fedi post/comment.


  • No problem, I feel like fedistuff is so scattered and hidden that it’s always worth mentioning your favourite tools :)

    The frontends and apps do redirect embedded links in comments no? E.g. if you click this it should automatically use your instance to find the comment (even though its a link to my instance): https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17606535

    Or maybe you mean when you paste an url to the browser that it should automatically redirect to your instance? If so thats tad bit difficult. There was once a post that proposed something like a activityPub/lemmy URI scheme where links would look like this:

    activitypub://<postorcommentidentifier>
    

    But I don’t remember where that conversation led and also I have no idea how feasible that would be.

    Edit: added words



  • I had a look and determined I need bit more time for this all than just today (long work day and a lot of additional info + need to get into lemmy-ui codebase a bit).

    You’ve got some good points there, thank you! I’m not a UI or UX expert but it’s a bit of a challenge reducing the amount of clicks and still keeping it mobile friendly without creating a screen full of options with several scrolls needed to reach the actual search, but I agree the goal should be less-actions.

    I think once I have a bit of a grasp on the project I’ll try and submit my suggestion.





  • I’m not a UI or UX expert, but I wonder if it would make the search page nicer if instead of the search target (form select) would be tabs instead of a dropdown since it is distinct selection from the other filters in the search?

    using bootstrap tabs (I didn’t put any effort into styling just added bootstrap tabs and removed the form select butto dropdown):

    Search but with tabs for form select instead of button dropdown

    Edit: now that I think about it, the tab might be kinda confusing unless also the other dropdowns are slightly altered to give more context in the current form selection tab, e.g. (text changes):

    In community... "Any", From creator ... "Any"

    But yeah I just wanted to throw out ideas, I’m not sure about them myself. The search inside a community is nice addition!


  • While I personally wouldn’t want this and agree with the comments about simplicity, old forum style, privacy talking points, I just don’t understand why people downvote this post.

    It’s a good question that creates good discussion (you know, purpose of lemmy) and doesn’t really lead to anything concrete necessarily. Just interesting discussion.

    People use downvote as a disagree button but it does have a real impact on the feed: this post will get buried by some post feed filters and some people will never see the good discussion going on in here.

    But to answer the question (even though there are already good answers): I personally think it’s also a stressful feature that will just make people feel like they need to answer to replies / will make lemmy look dead because only a handful of people use anything but “invisible” status.










  • Oh god… You’ll have to learn IIS. Internet Inf🤮rmation Services.

    In all seriousness Windows Server is much more enjoyable than Home/Pro/Enterprise or whatever the desktop versions are called. You have more control over the system and they don’t hinder you from configuring stuff unlike on the desktop version.

    Someone already suggested to get a VPS and just get to know the system. A tip though if you have to spin up a windows server on Azure vs somewhere else: search for info with the keyword “azure”. Microsoft stuff seems to work worse on their own cloud than anywhere else. MS SQL Server and Azure’s version of MS SQL Server differs and lacks features.

    Been a long time since I had to use any of the above so things might have changed.