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?
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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.
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.
