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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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.com](/c/community@example.com) format (#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.

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[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 week ago

As far as I remember, the loading indicator disappears when the local search is finished and the search appears to be done, even when the remote search is continuing. This makes finding a new remote community pretty awkward.

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Right, this is because it currently uses two separate api calls for search and resolve object. It will be fixed in 1.0 with https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5752.

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