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How can we make Lemmy easier for new users? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm curious to hear if you have any thoughts or ideas about this. As a developer I understand very well how Lemmy works, and cant tell at all what might be difficult or confusing.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I made a GitHub issue on this already, but being able to go to a community or user from a federated instance by typing in a plaintext URL, instead of going by community and user IDs, which change depending on the instance you're viewing from, would be great. Something like domain.tld/c/[email protected] for the community on that instance. I've definitely had the issue of taking a while to find the same post or community on another instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

This is one of those little UX changes that would go a long way in making Lemmy and the federation concept it's built upon be easier to understand for every user.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago

It's kind of weird that most federated platforms don't have plaintext URLs for content originating from other instances.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago

This is doable, and I like it better than the current way.