The idea for me is to build a client which is solely focused on media consumption.

Currently the client is working completely without a separate backend, storing everything locally and these things are already implemented:

  • Search communities
  • Show recently visited communities (split by safe/nsfw)
  • Login to view NSFW communities
  • Different sort modes
  • Link extraction from Posts for albums
  • Saving posts locally (without images)
  • Show saved posts by community or all
  • URL mappings to remap from full URLs to embed URLs per provider
  • Keyboard navigation (Prev/Next Post/Image, Save Post)

These are planned additionally:

  • Proper instance selection / Login
  • See (follow) user posts (F keybind)
  • Block user posts (B keybind)
  • Show original post (O keybind)
  • Auto advance images (adjustable time)

Probably needs a nicer web UI as well but I plan to push it live this weekend to get some early feedback. Do you have any more suggestions?

  • hitstun
    1•1 year ago

    Interesting. I want to poke around with CSS styling and JS to make @FloatingIsFun work more like Misskey, Pixiv, or certain Tumblr themes: Multiple columns of images to fill the page width, filters to view only a community’s posts that have a certain tag, and community-specific header images and color styles.

    I know I run a Kbin magazine, but it looks best in the mobile Lemmy browser Voyager by @aeharding . The way it loads full-size images and videos without bothering with thumbnails looks really good.

    I’m a longtime Feedly user too and I’ve gotten used to its keybinds: J/K for next/previous, L to save, and V to open in a new tab.

    Oh yeah, Lemmy and Kbin could use a standardized way to cite the source for an image. When I post images, I actually use Kbin’s “add new thread” page and add a source link in the post body. We couldn’t do that on Reddit. I try to make a source link automatically with this Google Sheet I made, but built-in scraping of the source page’s XML would be cool.

    • @SargoDaryaOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Those are certainly some interesting things you mention. Multiple image columns might be an interesting idea and potentially something for a different viewing mode. I’ll definitely take a note about that.

      For keybinds I thought about making them configurable, as they already map to specific actions anyways. For now they’re:

      Q: Previous image in album or if beginning previous post E: Next image in album or if end next post A: Previous post E: Next Post S: Save Post

      I‘m still considering if I want to add mod tools as well but for now I’ll focus on normal users.