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 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.

  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m not a UI or UX expert, but I wonder if it would make the search page nicer if instead of the search target (form select) would be tabs instead of a dropdown since it is distinct selection from the other filters in the search?

    using bootstrap tabs (I didn’t put any effort into styling just added bootstrap tabs and removed the form select butto dropdown):

    Search but with tabs for form select instead of button dropdown

    Edit: now that I think about it, the tab might be kinda confusing unless also the other dropdowns are slightly altered to give more context in the current form selection tab, e.g. (text changes):

    In community... "Any", From creator ... "Any"

    But yeah I just wanted to throw out ideas, I’m not sure about them myself. The search inside a community is nice addition!