3
[Feature Request] Search/Explore All Communities across instances (piefed.ca)
submitted 14 hours ago by to c/summit@lemmy.world
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

First of all, let me say I'm new to the Fediverse on a piefed-based instance and I downloaded, compared and contrasted a few Lemmy/Piefed-supporting apps and Summit is by leaps and bounds the app with the best UX, bar none. As a mobile dev myself, I know how herculean building and maintaining such an app alone is. Thank you so so much for your tireless effort.

My request is as the title says. The website i.e. piefed.ca has the ability to scroll through all plausible Lemmy and Piefed instances without needing to execute a search. I think implementing something like this could help discoverability. As it is currently, I have to know the name of a community to be able to search, find and subscribe to it. If I wanted to explore what's out there, I'd have to go on the website to do so. Thanks for your consideration.

all 2 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

Doesn't the Summit search function already return results from all instances one's home instance is federated with?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

    It does but that's not quite what I mean. I mean an explore button/approach where one can scroll through all instances available. I hate to bring this up but it looks like this this image. In said image, you can see I've not searched for anything but then I can scroll through to see "All" the instances my base instance is connected to, with a checkmark showing which instance I'm already subscribed to. It's slightly different than returning search results based on a keyword alone. Currently, Summit has something similar but it only displays all the communities to which one is subscribed and then a few suggestions, my request in essence is to add an "All" scrollable tab/carousel for all instances where the displayed instances are randomized on each view. This approach helped me with discovering instances I wanted to subscribe to on the piefed.ca website. I didn't have to use a keyword to search, I could just page through an endless list of instances. This suggestion still allows search as it currently works but it also increases discoverability. I hope that explains my request a bit.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent