Client-site "multicommunities" would be nice. A way for me to group multiple communities into a single feed like multireddits.

fairly minor thing, but can you detect from sync whether a home instance allows downvotes? mine does not, but sync still displays the unusable downvote button on everything

A few features I would love to see:

1. A way to view groups of multiple communities in a single feed. Like a multicommunity. A workaround right now is to have multiple accounts, which is less than ideal.

2. A way to view content from multiple accounts in a single feed. Like a universal feed.

3. An easier way to have the same settings apply to multiple accounts.

4. A way to block instances or communities.

Block users by instance:

https://lemmy.world/comment/3298045

When browsing "local" or "all", it would be nice to have some kind of indicator next to the community name to let you know if you've already subscribed or not. I browse "all" sometimes looking for new communities to sub to and I click through to find out I'm already subbed often.

I think something as simple as being able to set a different color for subbed communities would work well and be enough to stand out at a glance.

My biggest feature request is an option to view upvotes and downvotes separately rather than as one combined number. Ideally the current combined method would remain an option as well.

Comments collapsing down not up.

I.e. I read a long comment, collapse it and then don't have to scroll up to read the next one.

Is it not possible to add upvotes history?

Last time I tried using the spoiler tag, I got multiple people responding telling me sync used syntax different from what Lemmy standard is. Not sure if that's been fixed yet, but sounds like an easy one.

To see a list of all communities on an instance. Unless I'm being dumb, I don't see this feature yet. And a subscribe button next to each community in the list

Combining multiple posts on all / local feeds:

https://lemmy.world/comment/3297471

Something that only makes sense on lemmy and not Reddit, but I think it would be cool to explore a combined account view. With defederation I've now ended up with multiple accounts that can all see different things. Could be nice to combine my beehaw and lemmy.world subscriptions view together.

Have a global setting for not sharing the post title by default when I want to directly share an image from the app. It's come unstuck and turned back on for me a couple times.

I also wanted to say the only reason I'm using lemmy at all is because of your app; I'm a big fan. As soon as your app turned off for Reddit, I quit using Reddit. I'm glad that you turned to this community, and I'll support you here too :)

Side note: I'm a software developer, so if you ever want an enhancement in an open-source library, maybe reach out and I can take a crack at it. I'm mostly familiar with Python and C# but I'm always willing to learn new things!

A way to group subscribed communities into a single 'subscription'. I can then associate all the tech related stuff into one clickable item, and all my sports related stuff etc.

Idea is to let me view subscriptions by 'topic'

Rename other users or hide certain characters. Im sick of people using emojis in their names but I don't necessarily want to block them.

Viewing a user profile should have the option to see "posts/comments" together, and should default to it, just like Sync for Reddit. Thanks for all your hard work!

Allow users to switch accounts when making posts or comments instead of having to go back to the home screen

Blocked instances appear in comments.

Notifications. Doesn't have to be push notifications - polled notifications is fine as well until push is implemented.

After that, cross-posting support.

When people post images, they often use markdown in the text field. Sync doesn't display this properly in the posts feed.

I'd like to get a quick option to block a community right alongside the filter options (filter user, filter site, filter community).

A cross post button or option of some kind.

Hiding blocked communities from the 'Everything' feed please

Search function. I get this. I cannot search remote instance toast whenever I try to search

Eternity for Lemmy implemented this and it's been really handy for small instance users to funnel traffic through our instances.

Having webp images/animated images show up in the post feed without having to click on the image

Offline sync would be fantastic.

Block Bots

Please

Blocking an instance.

Not sure if it's a setting I've missed, but I use top 6 hour for the front page, which is great, but then when clicking into a post it still uses top 6 hour, which generally shows little activity or replies, until I then have to change it to active etc to see the whole thread. Am I just being dumb?

Emoji support would be :chefs-kiss:

posted before maybe:

• filters with a timeout (filters that disappear after a while). The filter might remain in a list of filters and can be reset again (or gets deleted after timeout). This would be a middle ground between blocking certain things completely and not at all.

• weighing of certain communities. A weight of 0 would be the same as blocking. A weight of 1 doesn't change anything. A Weight of 0.5 would multiply the upvotes of posts by 0.5 in order to change its position on the frontpage. ( I am not sure how exactly the rank is determined, but weighing certain meme-communities lower would be nicer than completely blocking them - i like a nice stupid meme from time to time. am not sure how this could work on reality, son this might not have a perfect solution though.

User tagging similar to Reddit Enhancement Suite. Specifically keeping a count of up/down votes of other users and displaying next to their comments. Also when tagging users it saves a link to the comment causing you to tag them.

The current user tagging feature is the largest reason I subscribe to sync Ultra. It's really one of the only things that helped out with the spam aside from keeping to smaller communities.

• I would like to be able to have the auto-complete/predict/correct available in the title field with the OpenBoard keyboard app, please.

• And editing the title? (I learned I can do it from the website, but would like to be able to do it in Sync, if possible.)

Is there a way to see what I've upvoted? I've basically been both upvoting and saving everything. Thank you for all the work either way!

An option to disable the toast 'you are hiding everything on page 6' and just continue on anyway, without needing to press retry.

I have four suggestions that I didn't mention in our previous talk:

1._ Swipe to upvote/downvote the main post in the comment section.

2._ Subscribed mark/icon for communities in the feeds or the new instances view to quickly know if we are already subscribed to such communities.

3._ In the Explore section the subbed users count only show up in unsubscribed communities, it would be nice if it shows In your subscribed communities as well.

4._ Ability to browse per instances in other sections (like when we are inside a community)

A rework of font sizing is something I really want to add too.

Maybe a little slider under general.

I would love a Scroll to top button when browsing an instance, or to have an option to Subscribe without scrolling all the way to the top. I tend to visit a new instance, check out a couple pages, and then subscribe. But by then the Subscribe button is really far away.

Does the API let you explore an instance?

I don't get notifications when a message is in my inbox, but I have notifications enabled.

For us perverts it would be great if the Redgifs audio issue was fixed.

It also prevents sharing the actual redgifs link easily cause you need to open it in the browser and then share the link. Otherwise it shares the API link.

It did work as intended on Sync for Reddit.

It's a small QOL suggestion, a "Previous" and "Next" comment button when traversing through comments. I used to use RIF prior to coming to Lemmy Sync and always liked being able to jump from comment to comment.

Unless I'm missing something, the scrub bar and other information never go away while watching a video?

Can we have notifications about replies/messages at least when opening the app up? (It doesn't have to poll all the time for them, but hourly polling or something can be an option).

Filtering "All" by language. I know it's a GIGO situation, but I think I'd take the win.

Change logo to indicate the lemmy connection..This is not at all a serious request, just a personal request fuelled by OCD to get everything as connected as possible.

Do you plan on supporting logging in from Kbin instances once the API is live?

On behalf of all the perverts out there, how about a toggle filter for only showing NSFW posts. Would be nice for...ahem... "discovery" on the everything feed.

Assuming it's not already possible that is.

Fixing the bug where instances can't be loaded please!

Double dipping with the answers, but it would be awesome if we could toggle filters on and off. My list of filtered communities is enormous (40+ just for various sports teams I don't care to see on the everything feed), but if like to sometimes disable all filters just to see how the standard experience looks.

I imagine a toggle for each filter category (instance, community, users...)

I would like to be able to hide top level comments down to their username line only so that i don't see the comment but can unhide it if i want.

Just want to make sure you're aware of this: https://discuss.online/post/1294119

I cannot connect to discuss.online as a home site from Sync at the moment, though I can browse it from other home sites. It is not an issue unique to me. The admins of the instance have come to the conclusion it is a lemmy/3p client issue rather than an instance issue, and that clients it breaks now will break more completely with future lemmy rollouts.

Sometimes, when scrolling, I get "Your filters have blocked all the posts on this page" or "You have read all the posts on page 17" or whatever.

The pop-up gives either a "Next page" or a "Retry" button (IIRC). When I press it, I'm able to continue just fine.

Can there be a setting added (or something) that just auto-presses that button for me? I'm cool with just scrolling forever, and it seems a little silly that I get stopped by that prompt but pressing 1 little button fixes it.

There are two horribly synergistic bugs on my favorite NSFW instance, lemmynsfw(dot)com:

Sync's community filters don't work on that instance, and that instance's community blocks don't work either! They're not related, I'm sure, but when both are broken I see things I can't unsee.

I built up a huge list of community filters in the app, and then one day realized not a single one was working. Not even if I cleared the whole list and added just one filter. Refreshing didn't help. Nor did clearing the cache. At least, I think I tried that.

And, for some reason, Blocks don't work on that instance either, but only when requesting my feed through the API. Blocks do work on the website itself. But that's not your issue. That's theirs.

I'd like the option to exclude a community from an instance filter. There's a community I'm interested in in an instance that is 90% garbage.

If a subscribed community could bypass the filters, that'd be fantastic

Sometimes images don't allow me to resize them. Closing and reopening the image fixes it, but I don't know what causes it initially. More a minor annoyance than anything, but I still wanted to bring attention to it since I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.

How about being able to move the up/down vote buttons to the right side for comments. And make them a little bit bigger.

Does the floating navigation bar exist on the Lemmy app? I feel like I had it at one point but I could be mistaken. I love being able to just from parent to parent comment on some threads.

Option to choose between the regular and dark mode icons

Account tags

Being able to rotate or mirror an image.

I have "hide read posts" enabled on the Lemmy side, through the desktop page.

When I go to my profile on Lemmy's website, I don't see any posts I've made (which makes sense, I've read every post I've ever written), but I do see all my comments in the comment section of a read post.

For some reason, on Sync it doesn't show the posts or the comments. My profile is completely empty unless I go into the settings on my Lemmy instance and toggle the "hide read" setting.

I'd like the ability to open an account in a different window. Like how you can long press on a community and it opens in a new window, but with for accounts. Would make it easier than switching accounts and losing your position

Thank you for your great work! :)

The one issue I have is that the text is very small while composing comments, and I haven't found a setting to change that.

Here is a screenshot.

Full immersive mode for non Samsung devices, or transparent navigation bar for those of us who hate gesture navigation.

I can't find a way to fully collapse a comment, it always collapses only the children, is there a way to change it?

Not a terribly important feature, but I'd like to be able to create multiple instances of a view type, each of which has its own configuration, and be able to switch between them with a quick action.

My phone is so wide that it's difficult to hit the thumbnails in the list view when I hold the phone in the opposite hand (right hand with thumbnails on the left vs. left hand with thumbnails on the right). This feature would allow me to quickly switch the view :)

Am I missing a easy one-button to crosspost something from one community to another? If not, then that would be pretty handy.

I know there's share, and I love how much flexibility there is in the share button already, but as a bit of a noob a simple one button crosspost button would be nice. Especially if it has some automated best-practice type settings for the message and media like linking to original post, maybe tagging as a crosspost etc.

Bit of a noob, and even on Reddit was a long time lurker so I always get a bit anxious at how I should be crossposting "correctly".

You could even sneak in some tagging or a formulaic note in the messages to make it easy for Sync to merge duplicate posts found on multiple communities.

Shouldn't this combination of settings result in a red preview? Or no preview? Currently it still shows a blurred preview.

I noticed that saved items are ordered by their post date, not by their saved date like on Reddit Sync. This makes it super hard to find the latest ones you saved.

Could you add this please?

Is there a way to create a community? I don't think I've seen a way but I haven't done a thorough deep dive

Collapsing entire comment threads. It can be hard to read the top-level comments in each thread when you have to scroll through. Being able to collapse a top-level comment and all replies to that comment in one button press would help with this.

Please make Sync compatible with Lemmy v0.19. lemmy.sdf.org updated to v0.19 and Sync no longer works for me. I'm having to use a different app in the meantime.

An option to have separate up/down vote buttons

I think that getting support for 0.19 working is a bit important now, since many smaller instances seem to be taking the plunge and upgrading to the beta, so being able to login and support lemmy instances with the new auth protocols is very important.

A setting to hide posts that I have voted on. I miss this from Reddit.

It seems like a lot of images and gifs on Lemmy are hosted on catbox.moe and exactly zero of them ever load. Any chance of adding support?

Sync doesn't seem to format post titles which have links, which breaks the titles of posts made from mastodon ( since the hashtags are in the title).

Lemmy post

Original

Would there be a way to implement a meta reddit style setup?

Small thing but I'd love some metadata about the comment or post when I'm replying. Things like the time it was posted, username and maybe even subreddit with the instance. The full thread for nested comments would maybe be nice but maybe the ui for scrolling through that would be messy.

2 old features I liked from the reddit version. Probably going to be quite low priority versus some other things, but they're the missing things I'm noticing most.

1. The little "next / previous comment" arrows. Worked very well for skipping comment chains when you're already a bit into them.

2. The little "+#" count next to the total comments to show how many new comments have popped up in a post. Combined with the unread comment dot it made keeping track of new comments on a thread I liked nice.

@ljdawson@lemmy.world hi! Late to the party, but could you fix spoilers to align them with Lemmy's format?

Restoring the broken filters and fixing the missing saved content bug. But even more important you should be improving your build process' release cycle so you can push out fixes out before new features. I don't want more fluff right now, I want the app I paid for to work as advertised. It's been a month and I'm starting to consider other free competitors.

I'd love to be able to adjust line spacing in the body text of posts, like I'm able to do for the comments. Also, now that I'm writing this, I'm noticing that it would be nice to have that in this reply composition screen too. But maybe I just haven't found that one?

I would like to be able to set another type of default sort. Default sort is now "active", I would like to be able to change that to "hot".

(or maybe it's already there but I can't find the setting?)

Hide NSFW doesn't work anymore. Only blurs.

Is it possible to add an option to remove the notification bar at the top of the screen when scrolling? Basically full screen when scrolling.

There used to be a Reddit app that supported this but I forget which.

Setting a default filter mode for comments. I could find a way to do this in settings, so maybe I'm missing something, but I'd expect it to be the same as default filtering for posts.

A little icon on top of thumbnails to show the image:

1. Is a pic

2. Is a gif

3. Is video

4. Redirects to a website

If no content found on default sort, automatically fail over to a second sort selected by the user.

I.e add a toggle that allows "if default is top 12hrs but no content found, load content from new."

I have no idea how this works so hopefully this isn't too wild but it would be neat to be able to use the app with kbin (a kbin account from a kbin instance, not just look at kbin content is what I mean)

Edit: nvm i see someone else already suggested it and you responded, should've checked first

User mentions doesn't appear to be working for me.

Someone mentioned me a couple of days ago and it never came through. Could it be an instance thing?

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, have an incorrect setting, or if this is expected behavior, but the thing that's been driving me nuts is when I go to share a link it always copies the source of the post for the lemmy link.

If, for example, I'm browsing on lemmy.ml and I want to share a post from lemmy.world, I'd like to be able to copy the lemmy.ml version of the lemmy.world post.

It doesn't make as much sense with public instances, but when you're using a private instance and you want to share with friends and family it can be kind of a hassle to retrieve the URL for said private instance.

I miss the navigation buttons I had on RIF. Each comment had a next and previous button which would jump the focus to the next or previous comment. Replies had a go-to-parent button

In app YouTube player like Reddit Sync had. Drives me nuts when I inadvertently click a YouTube link and it takes me to the YouTube app. It's a pain to get back to Lemmy.

Also, I think I remember a check box on Reddit Sync's in app browser to disable cookies or clear on close or something. That would be nice to have back.

Thank you for this amazing app! I'd like to be able to download images to my Downloads folder. I'm on Android 12 and currently I cannot select it. It shouldn't be an issue since newer Android versions don't even require write permissions for that.

Would be nice to be able to see a single comment thread for any given comment, not only when coming from profile comments section.

It would be super helpful if we can hide entire instances from showing up at an individual level. For e.g. I see a lot of posts from feddit.de - I don't have anything bad against the server or the users, but the posts there add no value to my experience and fill up my feed with content I'll simply not understand. It would be a better UX to be able to hide these without having the home instance and other users on it be affected by your preference.

Any progress on WebM support? Not sure about other instances, but mine converts GIFs to WebM by default when I upload from Sync. But posts with WebM just act like still images in Sync, and tapping on them just leads to a button to open the WebM in a browser.

I haven't seen other people report this, but for me if you click on comments then hit back it won't take you to the page you clicked on the comment link from, but rather the previous one. So if I was on page 2, go into comments then click' back' I'd end up on page 1.

How feasible would it be to create toggle-able filters. e.g. I could toggle a sports team community when I haven't seen the result of a game.

I am still not able to see media from "files.catbox.moe"

Example: https://lemmy.world/post/7887643

[BUG] Sample title

Sample description Sample description body

Scenario (steps to reproduce)**

1. Do something
2. Do something else

Result(s) Sample results

Device information

Sync version: v23.09.13-18:19    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: sunfish    
Model: Google Pixel 4a    
Android: 13

This bug

I'd like to not have the title of an image post not be carried over when trying to share externally.

Not sure where to submit bug reports:

This comment contaisn a link that contains two @ symbols. Sync inserts a link with the assumption that the two @ signify a Lemmy username.

Original comment: https://lemm.ee/comment/4893130

Cited here for ease of reading (I love that I can see the markdown source directly btw!):

https://mastodon.social/...

My lemmy instance doesn't allow uploading of images at all. It would be awesome to have a setting that would change the add image function from uploading and image, to providing text boxes for alt text and link instead and have it automatically add the syntax to embed the image in the comment:

![alt text](image url)

I'd like a way to block " X " posts. The filters seem to strip leading and trailing spaces from the keywords.

Option to disable long-press to hide comment.

I have never had a desire to hide a comment and I do it constantly unintentionally.

I have an issue and not sure where to send it. I think "some" post makes Sync crash.

https://mega.nz/...

I hid about 5 posts and now there are no posts and the app doesn't crash and doesn't load new posts.

Maybe I need to relogin...

Some pages don't have overscroll rubberbanding.

I'd love these things:

1. Be able to mark text and wrap with `...`, back ticks, for code formatting.
2. Mark comment replies as unread.

I would like it if a community would remember the sorting I selected. Some communities I prefer to read sorted by newest. Others I like to read top last 12 hours.

A feature I would love to have is Auto load next page if a full page of results is filtered. With some communities getting fed content by posting bots that load a chunk of posts all at once, I often hit instances while browsing /all where multiple pages will be empty due to filters. It would be great if the app just loaded the next page automatically in these instances instead of having to manually load the next page.

I love long pressing an image to view and sliding my finger down to the options at the bottom to copy, view in browser, etc. Would be nice if download was one of those quick actions.

This isn't really a feature suggestion, but rather a quality of life improvement.

Lately I've been getting a lot of messages saying "All posts hidden on page ### - RETRY" due to having to have so many filters on Lemmy to hide whole communities.

Just this morning I had to hit retry about 6-7 times in a row because there were 6-7 pages on posts completely filtered out..

Had the same issue on sync for reddit but it wasn't as noticeable since filters weren't required as much. On Lemmy it's a staple and kind of annoying once you have a fair bit of communities filtered out.

**Feature request: **

View upvote and downvote count in addition to or instead of score

I love the post preview feature when sharing posts online or with friends.

I think something that would be beneficial to Lemmy (and hence Sync) would be if the entire community name (such as !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world) be displayed in the preview.

A rough MS Paint example:

I'd like to see the "read text aloud" feature extended to the body of posts.

comment custom indentation and padding

You do great work!! Sync has been my most used app for longer than I remember.

Any chance for some tweaks for tablets and foldables?

• I think it would be nice to be able to hide the navigation rail. It feels like a lot of wasted space. The FAB can do everything the rail can while being better looking and easier to reach.

• Maybe more column settings for view types (for folded/unfolded)? I like a single column on the outside screen, 2 columns on the inner screen in portrait, and 3 columns on the inner screen in landscape. This is possible in Infinity for Lemmy. But Infinity, as a whole, is not nearly as polished as your app.

I currently use Infinity on my Fold's outer display for single column viewing and Sync on the inner display with tablet mode disabled to avoid the navigation rail. These tweaks would be awesome for foldable users (all 10 of us) so we could get a better use of space while also enjoying the tablet mode features.

I know that before, when I shared a picture via text say, there was an option to not have the post title accompany said picture. I'd like to have that again.

Oh, and maybe the ability to view media @ catbox ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Cheers

I know it's a little one but please fix the spacing of the notification when hiding posts:

Device information

Sync version: v23.09.13-18:19    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: true    
View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false

I can only find an option to block the community, not the instance. Blocking|hiding communities individually is tedious when you're trying to personalize your feed

Fix the "Todo" on the post action bar

I just need the version without ads.

I would really love to see a "Comment Score" and/or a "Post Score" (or even an "Total Score") like other Lemmy apps do (Like Voyager). Like how Reddit does karma where you can see total upvotes on all a user's content.

Not necessary but my monkey brain firmly believes that bigger number = better person.

Otherwise app is perfect <3 thx

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