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"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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[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hello,

I think I've seen your post in the Sync community a few minutes back. I guess this is probably to be discussed on the apps communities, as these things are handled by them? The features are there, as on the website it's one click to subscribe

There is also !lemmyapps@lemmy.world if you want an wider audience than specific apps communities

[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 16 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.

[-] jaamesbaxterr@lemmy.ninja 7 points 1 year ago

I also came here to plug Voyager. I was so happy when they implemented this feature.

[-] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

In the Connect app I know it's very easy. While looking at a post, you just hit the 3dot menu, and the subscribe/unsubscribe option is right there.

[-] frogfruit@discuss.online 4 points 1 year ago

I just wish you could do it while browsing all rather than clicking into the post.

[-] hariette@artemis.camp 8 points 1 year ago

That’s why on Artemis I added a plus to the icon of a community. Has really helped with fleshing out my subs 👌

[-] auxim@artemis.camp 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Would it be possible to have the subscribe option appear as a long press of the icon as well? I’m finding the plus button to be an uncomfortably small tap target.~~ I totally glimpsed over "Join", my bad.

Thanks for building a great app!

[-] hariette@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago

Realizing in lemmy you can't see images uploaded with comments (kbin only). So sharing link to image

[-] SWIM@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's no way that's missing from sync, that app has everything.For a cool 135$ you could have it too

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

In thunder from the post and comments screen tap the community name under the OP and there is a "+" or "-" depending on your sub state.

[-] Unsustainable@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

If you go to the website for the instance you can list all the communities and subscribe to them very quickly. Just go down the list and tap "subscribe" next to each one you want to subscribe to. It can't be any quicker or simpler.

[-] Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

If I'm not mistaken, the preference was to be able to subscribe to the community, as you see it on your feed, as you resonate with the content posted alongside the core implication of the community. Going to another website to search said instance just to subscribe,is much MORE work, than 3 clicks.

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