For me it would be:
- Monet icon and Material UI design.
- Mark read post while scrolling.
- A button to hide such read posts.
I know there are more critical functions which most of the apps are lacking like going straight to the comment from a reply, it wasn’t a big deal before because there were not many comments, but now it is becoming harder to find the context!
So far only Jerboa and Thunder qualifies the first “needs” for me!
Please share yours!
Playing videos linked to other places
User online status
Community folders (which I don’t think Reddit had!) where you can group together your communities and order posts from those groups only and find communities quickly (like memes: c/memes - c/lemmyshitpost , creative: c/arttrade - c/weirdwheels - c/bonvoyage , mental: c/autism, c/adhd, c/neurodivergence etc)
More esoteric requests:
I know some of you will hate this and I do too to an extend but in a later update, if the currency solves its current problems, “awarding” comments via XNO/Nano as a replacement for Reddit awards, maybe some XNO from that can be given to sysadmins for server costs?
An instance where the serverload is shared as IPFS and other decentralized means for testing purposes, I know servers here are loaded rn
Different fonts, disabling the sharing of images in comments, limited characters per comments and other settings for communities that can be set by the admins/mods
Custom CSS setting similar to old youtube or myspace profiles for communities (may make some third party apps panic)
Wasm things to show stuff like 3d models on comments and posts and small games, although that should come from safe places to avoid malicious attacks and serverload… (Wasm is fast and is supported in most major browsers, including mobile and shouldn’t kill 3rd party software, hopefully- finding people whom would code with it is another story though but if done well can make Reddit look like plebbit lol) (WILL make some third party apps panic)
Square Profile Pictures (it is ambitious enough)