Hi all,

Guess it’s never too early to start thinking about features we’d like to see in Boost for Lemmy!

I was scrolling down my list of subbed communities just now and reflecting that the “@(server)” part of the community names makes it harder to quickly read them (for me at least).

I know that - this being the fediverse - you might sub to two communities with the same name but on different servers (eg. Football@[server]) but I would imagine that the majority of users will just pick one and on the day to day they won’t be terribly concerned where exactly that community is being hosted.

I think it’d be neat if you could select to hide the server part of the community name in Boost’s list, or at least make it less prominent in the name visually (e.g. - the actual name part in a highlight colour, the server part in a grey/other colour that blends in against the backdrop).

Thanks 🙂

    • Pyrrhichios@vlemmy.netOP
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      1 year ago

      Oh yeah, it should definitely be optional. Fully appreciate that there will be folk who really care about the federated dimension to all of this.

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    1 year ago

    If this is available it definitely needs to be an option, and I think it probably needs to not be the default. I know I like to know which instances I’m interacting with, and I think it makes sense because that’s part of the point of the Fediverse.

    • Pyrrhichios@vlemmy.netOP
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      1 year ago

      Yep, I would agree on both counts - default behaviour should be people see servers in some respect, and those who are annoyed enough by it (like me) will go looking for the option :)

  • koolkiwi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes, please! And the same goes for user names. You for example have an @vlemmy.net behind yours, but I couldn’t give a rats ass what instance you signed up for. Especially since some of these instances have incredibly dumb and/or hard to read names (sh.itjust.works for example)