"Quick Subscribe" missing in most Lemmy apps (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Nankeru@reddthat.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

In Voyager you can long press community name in feed to subscribe or block.

[-] deranger@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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".

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

“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.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 1 year ago

I am using a native app only because it works better with the platform screen readers.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That makes a lot of sense!

If you don't mind my asking ... is that generally the case, that screen readers work best through native apps than web based apps? I would presume so but I have no idea.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 1 year ago

They work fine with web apps, but from what i can tell native apps can pass more instructions to them like "skip this because its a link preview image" etc.