Making threadiverse communities more discoverable - some suggestions ( kbin.social )

Prouvaire OP , 11 months ago

1. MAKE FEDIVERSE-WIDE SEARCH MORE FRIENDLY

Search should, by default (ie unless constrained by the user), search communities and posts and users, and present the results grouped into these categories, with communities displayed first or at least prominently.

The current default fediverse search screens - especially on lemmy - are intimidating and require the user to know how the fediverse works before searching, eg knowing the difference between "local" and "all" or the difference between a "community" and a "creator".

Rather than putting the onus on the user to narrow search parameters before searching, have a general search bar that group the results after searching into easily distinguishable groupings, ie communities, posts and users.

Reddit search does this very well, and offers additional quality-of-life features like suggesting communities related to your search term even as you type.

Advanced users should still be able to specify search parameters in more detail up front of course, but it's important to hide any complexity from new users.