Many of us came from Reddit and are still exploring Lemmy by browsing “Everything” or “All”.
Right now, when I want to subscribe to a community from “All” in all apps I’ve tried, it takes me 3+ clicks / taps to subscribe, by opening the community first and going through some menus. In some apps it’s even more hidden, especially for new joiners not knowing Lemmy and the new apps UI this can be confusing.
I would suggest all app developers to add an option, which adds a button on each post, similar like the save or upvote button, to directly see if we’re already subscribed, and clicking it would subscribe / unsubscribe us.
That would help the adoption of Lemmy and makes it easier to subscribe to all the communities which seem interesting, without going through menus or doing many clicks / taps each time.
In Voyager you can long press community name in feed to subscribe or block.
Thanks, didn’t know about this.
Voyager is one of my favorite apps these days, and a fantastic example of “web apps don’t have to suck”.
“web apps don’t have to suck”
Absolutely … from what I’ve seen, some of the best and fastest UI progress has been made by web apps.
While all the native mobile app devs are clearly doing great work and can certainly get to a better final product … right now, for the fediverse, web apps are probably what should be focused on given how much of this place is still experimental and in need of more experimentation, and how onerous it is to expect any new platform to have a good mobile app on both android and iOS.
Which doesn’t mean no one should be using native apps … just that the fediverse at large could probably benefit from people putting aside the expectation for native mobile apps and embracing how much a good web app can do.
I am using a native app only because it works better with the platform screen readers.
Hello,
I think I’ve seen your post in the Sync community a few minutes back. I guess this is probably to be discussed on the apps communities, as these things are handled by them? The features are there, as on the website it’s one click to subscribe
There is also !lemmyapps@lemmy.world if you want an wider audience than specific apps communities
In the Connect app I know it’s very easy. While looking at a post, you just hit the 3dot menu, and the subscribe/unsubscribe option is right there.
I just wish you could do it while browsing all rather than clicking into the post.
That’s why on Artemis I added a plus to the icon of a community. Has really helped with fleshing out my subs 👌
Easy on thunder
