[Help Design Lemmy] Search Improvements (lemmy.ml)

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

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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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[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For post searches, could there be a [] Search Title Only? I have been reading a post and had my client crash and was unable to find the post again, despite recalling some or all of the title.

I also do a foreign word of the day and when I want to check if I am duplicating a post I have to skim through all of the posts that include that word.

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Good point, this is one of those features which is already implemented in the backend but not added to lemmy-ui yet. Made a pull request for it.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3220/files

this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025

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