Ouch, and also does not visually scream at us in light mode when we have dark screens.

Well aren’t you lucky, now you get to see it again, live!:-)

I mean yeah - but I do so less for their sake and more for the reason that we should have been responsible and not actively have caused that, you know? imho at least.

There have been mass extinction events many times on earth before, and there probably will be several more times yet again, until the sun dies out or perhaps the planet does prior to that. Perhaps humans will even be around to see the next one(s) too, if we happen to survive this one. That will not negate our responsibility here, but could be true regardless.

We can only control what is within our capability to control. i.e. we need to do the right thing - e.g. reduce our impact - but the actual result of our actions is beyond our control hence I choose not to “worry” about that part of the situation.

Stoicism.

The planet will survive. And there is even a chance that some remnant of humanity might as well - deservedly or no. It is mainly modern society that is done for, and I do not morn its loss.

Excellent! Although this really makes me wish now that I could easily retrieve the parent comment for it… haha! 😅

There are multiple problems with your link here.

1. Despite beginning with https://, PieFed does not render it as clickable.

2. Upon pasting it into Firefox on Android, the results it offers are simply “No search results.”

So I presume that people are aware of and discussing this issue? But PieFed still unfortunately lacks a great deal of such “polish” matters of very foundational concepts as URL rendering, navigation to specific comments, replying to comments, and previewing posts. Other than viewing posts, these concepts are mainly what I do on PieFed:-), so it would be great to fix those prior to a search function that would be useful less often.

Btw do you think I created the codeberg issue correctly? Nobody has commented on it so I wasn’t sure. I couldn’t add any labels for it - perhaps those are admin controlled.

But one of those is WAAAY more accurate than the other… and I think we all know which that is.

Ah, found the link: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1362

Absolutely - and it is not entirely just a convenience factor, it really is possible to get “lost” since PieFed often seems to ignore where the URL link was pointing (especially if there are many comments and those now have to load differently, after the page load) and instead just defaults to navigating to the top of the OP, at which point if you attempt to search for the identical text of the message, it may not be found (despite the fact that it 100% does exist, deeper in the chain). Here is an example link: https://piefed.social/post/1305005#comment_8178603, which (1) you will note that clicking it does not navigate directly to it (note that there are only 59 comments total - so this failure to navigate directly to it is entirely separate from the issue of loading comments after the page), and (2) despite the fact that that comment includes the full text “And it makes sense that it was not a FULL rebuttal”, if you search for that text it will not be found. The only way I can manage to find it after being thus “lost” is to go through the page and click on every single “Continue thread” that appears there one by one, underneath one of them (hopefully!?:-P) the desired content will eventually be found.

Replying to comments is something that I do several times a day - I am doing it right here and now in fact:-). This is something that should have a much higher prioritization to fix than searching, imho. Not that I want to “demand” anything - all of this work is done for free and we all appreciate that - but in case it helps to say my thoughts and where I am coming from there:-D. I would love to see replying to comments streamlined much more than it is now, even at the cost of pushing back implementation of a more robust set of search functions.

Edit: another streamlining that I would love to see happen is inline editing of comments. I hate how after you edit an existing comment, it next takes you to the full page and you lose where you were before.

Yes but there are also other things that I would consider much higher prioritization still before that.

One being easier usability of reading and responding to comments, especially those deeper in a chain - i.e. we need a “see parent comment” option. I created a codeberg issue for this (I can’t connect to that server atm to link it here there is some ongoing issue involving a JavaScript error on that site, but I did manage to find the link: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1362).

Another issue is that there still seems to be no way to preview a post before creating it (on Firefox, on Android, on PieFed.social) - yes for comments but no for actual posts. (Edit: interesting, this seems to only be true for mobile but not desktop?)

Some similar issues that are already completed are the ability to view the modlog for a community and a button adding spoiler text markdown - I will use those roughly the same frequency as I would a search function (probably a bit higher actually) and at a guess were far easier to implement.:-)

At some point it will be embarrassing to not have a fully fledged search function, but imho we are not all that close to that point yet, relative to other issues that are used hourly or daily rather than weekly or monthly.

It’s what happens when you don’t have the high ground, apparently.

You have value. Thank you for existing.

So… another year then?

I tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried with Lemmy. The best I found that I could hope for was sorting by New, but mostly I just gave up hope for it.

Until I moved to PieFed, and now the issue has multiple solutions. For one, using the Topic/Feeds (which are user-customizeable and shareable) you really can have your cake and eat it too, e.g. you can unsubscribe from all politics communities so that those do not show up on your main homepage, but an entire new feed completely dedicated to News & Politics is just a click away. Or Memes. Or Hobbies. Or Movies & TV, or any of a thousand other things - again, you can build your own, or subscribe to one that someone else has made.

And for another, for sufficiently low-traffic communities you can click the bell icon (which you can do to pretty much anything - users, posts, comments, communities, etc. - plus you can even UNCLICK that to silence notifications from your own content!!), so that you get a notification for each and every single new post to it. But, if it ever does get to be too much, you can mark all as read and/or separate the different categories of notifications from one another - community posts by others vs. replies to your own content.

PieFed really is leaving Lemmy behind in the dust, as far as features are concerned.

Honestly just the webpages themselves offers the absolute best experience, especially with the API still being made and refined. But Voyager is also an extremely popular choice. There is also a Thunder beta version but it has not made its way into the official one (at least as of yesterday in the Play Store, I don’t know about the App Store on iOS).

Yeah “obscure” was definitely the wrong word there - maybe “niche”?

Thank you so much for your contributions btw! In this era of disinformation, making the Threadiverse more usable can be an enormous boon:-).

He did, as well as mental health. So perhaps it is good that he pulled back a bit rather than overwhelm himself further. He did come back from his hospital trip, but then left the instance completely unmonitored which caused the entire Threadiverse to become flooded with spam messages like advertisements, to the point where some instances chose to defederate from it. You can’t just leave something like open on the internet these days!

Anyway PieFed is fantastic, you will probably fall in love with it instantly, like so many others of us:-).

Kbin the software has died - technically there is still one small instance in Poland that uses it, but all others have ceased, and the software is no longer being maintained under that name - yet the project lives on in its fork Mbin.

Instances that include the kbin word - e.g. kbin.earth - only retain that now as a legacy.

Sadly I don’t think anyone has heard from Ernst, the original developer and admin of kbin.social.

App support finally came to Mbin though, see “Interstellar”.

A spiritual successor to Kbin’s design philosophy that is very much worth checking out is “PieFed”, which I am writing to you now using it :-). Most apps that work with Lemmy also now work with it (except Thunder support still coming “soon_™” but available only in the beta version for now, not the Play Store one). PieFed is written in Python rather than the obscure Rust language so its pace of development has been extremely rapid in comparison to Lemmy and it now has a feature set well beyond that of either Lemmy or Mbin. If you want to access both the Threadiverse/Lemmy/Mbin communities/magazines as well as Fediverse/Mastodon-style content, Mbin is still your best bet as it was designed for exactly that, but for Threadiverse stuff it offers numerous advantages. Anyway it is so nice to have choices to pick from!:-)