In a recent discussion it was mentioned that the search function in Lemmy is awkward to use and could be improved. As a result I already made two small changes:

  • Change community selector to use !community@example.com format (#3218)
  • Search field in community sidebar (#3217)

Are there any other UI or UX changes you can think of to improve searching in Lemmy? Im mainly looking for frontend changes, such as reorganizing the input positions, changing default values etc.

  • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

    • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Ah good point!

      I’ll hopefully manage to set up lemmy-ui locally at home after work and make that pull request - I edited that in with webdev tools since didn’t want to lose that thought before I get home (sorry if this just pollutes the discussion).

      • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        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.