The only annoying part about it (and believe me, it is certainly annoying) is trying to subscribe to a community that no one on your home instance has subscribed to yet. I don’t think I ever got it to work. The UX of that needs to be improved, definitely. But once your instance has at least one person subscribed to a community your instance “knows” about it and it shows up in the search (and “r/all”, not sure what to call it on Lemmy) just like everything else on your instance.
So no, it’s really not all that different except for brand new communities no one on your instance has subscribed to yet.
I think since you are the one who finds it to be shitty UX perhaps you could propose something. And since lemmy is opensource, you can have a look at where the hooks are needed to enable the proposed solution.
The large number of upvotes suggest I’m not alone in my thinking.
I could take a look at how to enable this solution, I might even get away with doing it myself, but finding the right solution that makes things actually better is more important right now.
I wasn’t suggesting it isn’t popular. I was suggesting that we, as a community, have the ability to influence the code directly, either by writing code, or by making/bumping issues on the development github.
Unlike reddit, this is actually ‘ours’ to the extent that we can make real changes to the system through PRs, Forks, Etc…
It’s not really all that different.
Please, propose an aternative.
The only annoying part about it (and believe me, it is certainly annoying) is trying to subscribe to a community that no one on your home instance has subscribed to yet. I don’t think I ever got it to work. The UX of that needs to be improved, definitely. But once your instance has at least one person subscribed to a community your instance “knows” about it and it shows up in the search (and “r/all”, not sure what to call it on Lemmy) just like everything else on your instance.
So no, it’s really not all that different except for brand new communities no one on your instance has subscribed to yet.
I think since you are the one who finds it to be shitty UX perhaps you could propose something. And since lemmy is opensource, you can have a look at where the hooks are needed to enable the proposed solution.
The large number of upvotes suggest I’m not alone in my thinking.
I could take a look at how to enable this solution, I might even get away with doing it myself, but finding the right solution that makes things actually better is more important right now.
I wasn’t suggesting it isn’t popular. I was suggesting that we, as a community, have the ability to influence the code directly, either by writing code, or by making/bumping issues on the development github.
Unlike reddit, this is actually ‘ours’ to the extent that we can make real changes to the system through PRs, Forks, Etc…