Really wish that the compact mode was more compact too:

  • Don’t need to see “via [my instance]” on every post
  • Community instance doesn’t need to be as prominent as other info
  • User’s instance is rarely information I care about when scrolling through posts
  • cron@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    the “via $instance” does not add any information if only one instance is configured. Maybe only show this part if multiple instances are used?

  • x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    That prefix tells you where users are from and not all users would agree with your request so it should be best implemented as something that can be optionally turned on in the app settings instead of being hard coded into the app

    And it would be pretty hard to mention a user on lemmy if someone doesn’t know the instance that user is from

    Because it is as follows: @x4740N@lemmy.world

    To mention a user and you obviously need to know the instance a user is from

    I do agree with cleaning it up a bit if it needs to be but I don’t personally use the app and am just commenting my opinion on this post

    But it shouldn’t be outright removed

  • gila@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Agree with both sides of the discussion here. It’s useful information that I’d prefer to keep visible. And also, the compact UI for Liftoff is nowhere near compact enough. The amount of post information I can fit on screen (accounting for the fact Liftoff displays more information per post than RiF) has to be still only around half compared to RiF. This actually has a somewhat profound impact on the way I interpret post information while scrolling and it’s the main thing that’s prevented me from settling into using Liftoff longterm. But I think my issue is due to the vast amount of blank spacing in the design, rather than the inclusion of the longer community/instance info