MultiCommunities are here!
MultiCommunities are groupings of communities that can span multiple instances. They can be used to make custom views when you are only interested in a specific subset of communities but not the overall Local/Frontpage/All feed.
All of the existing Community Settings should also apply to MultiCommunities such as View Type, Sort, Mark as Read, and so on.
If you'd like to try it out please make sure you're updated to version 239 or above. Please let me know what you think and if there are any features you'd like to see added!
Sharing
All MultiCommunities are fully shareable. Here's the share link to my meme MultiCommunity above (this will only work on version >240): Multicommunity: memes . The format is essentially connect-multi://[multi name]/[community name @ instance]+....
Adding Communities
The overflow options now includes an 'Add to Multi' option. The community banner also has a plus button which will add the Community to a MultiCommunity. If that community already is added instead a minus option will appear here for removing that community.
Don't have Connect Installed? You can find it on Google Play here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
Cheers!
Kuro
Ah, I have community banner disabled so I didn't know about that.
I rolled out v240 last night which adds some of those additional menu items.
Also Sharing hopefully is working now (before the ids were included in the share link but now the client resolves them since ids change between instances). E.g. Multicommunity: memes
If I tap that link in Connect it doesn't do anything? I'm updated to v240.
Ah it's from 'Always Trust Domains' being on. Rolling out a fix now. Cheers!
I have community banners enabled now but for people that prefer it off, maybe a share and info option for MultiCommunities could be added to the MultiCommunity overflow menu? There's no way to share or check a shared MultiCommunity otherwise and I think the banner setting is also off by default.
That's a good idea, I'll add it in the next release. Cheers!