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.comformat (#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.
I think if you do this, then the tabs for communities, users, and URL would no longer have the drop down to choose community because it’s meaningless for them. They probably wouldn’t have the “Top All Time” filter either. There could probably be more differences for each tab, maybe this is the way to go.
Yeah there’s a lot to consider here, good points. The language specific texts too to make it more search selection context based. This would need to be thought through to not make it more confusing.