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What features from some site do you wish were used in more sites?

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      Reddit Nested/Threaded Comments — A tree-style comment system that visually nests replies, making conversation threads easier to follow in complex discussions.

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        Reddit Nested/Threaded Comments — A tree-style comment system that visually nests replies, making conversation threads easier to follow in complex discussions.

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        Don't most lemmy clients do that?

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          Discourse Moderation System — assigns user privileges based on five trust levels (0 to 4), where new users start at level 0 with limited abilities and, as they gain experience and participation, they progressively earn more rights to moderate and contribute, with level 4 users having nearly full community moderation powers short of staff status.

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            Don't most lemmy clients do that?

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            Yes? But I mean I would like sites like Discord and Twitter to sort discussions like that.

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              Yes? But I mean I would like sites like Discord and Twitter to sort discussions like that.

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              Ah, yeah. I don't Discord or Twitter so wasn't thinking about those. ArsTechnica would benefit as well. They still do the forum-style inline replies which is hard to follow.

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                Basic static HTML version.

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                  Discourse Moderation System — assigns user privileges based on five trust levels (0 to 4), where new users start at level 0 with limited abilities and, as they gain experience and participation, they progressively earn more rights to moderate and contribute, with level 4 users having nearly full community moderation powers short of staff status.

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                  This one I’m not such a fan of. The number of times I’ve found an interesting bulletin board community, and been told I had to wait 48 hours before I could comment once on the introductions board, before waiting another 24 hours to comment once per day on another small set of allowed forums, but only if my introductory comment was approved by the moderation team….

                  Yeah, the alternative is a bot and troll riddled mess of a site like reddit, but at least I can usually ask for the source of that furry scat porn without being instantly banned for speaking out of turn to the ruling elite of the forum.

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                    Basic static HTML version.

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                    News articles with dynamic scrolling that like, gradually reveal a graph and drip feed text. Just show me the fucking graph and text. Fuck.

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                      This one I’m not such a fan of. The number of times I’ve found an interesting bulletin board community, and been told I had to wait 48 hours before I could comment once on the introductions board, before waiting another 24 hours to comment once per day on another small set of allowed forums, but only if my introductory comment was approved by the moderation team….

                      Yeah, the alternative is a bot and troll riddled mess of a site like reddit, but at least I can usually ask for the source of that furry scat porn without being instantly banned for speaking out of turn to the ruling elite of the forum.

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                      I mean, your warnings of overbearing and limiting rules are valid, but that is very much not what I was imagining while reading their post... Still good to define boundaries of anything, but those feel a bit ... ridiculous even at the best of times.

                      ... ah well, even bad lessons are good to learn.

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                        Only the one server connection required for all content. At the very least, only your own servers. I will not whitelist any third party server another website can access. If you load some generic 3rd party script, your stuff does not exist. I don't want any scripts running at all.

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                          I wish bank sites allowed more fine tuned control. Email me about my accounts if x amount of money moves and use my nicknames not the *number thing. Let me set my savings to only allow withdrawls to my checking and not allow atm access.

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                            I wish bank sites allowed more fine tuned control. Email me about my accounts if x amount of money moves and use my nicknames not the *number thing. Let me set my savings to only allow withdrawls to my checking and not allow atm access.

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                            Give me a read only username and password. 😬

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                              Not using JavaScript for something CSS can do.

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                                This please, everywhere
                                https://thebestmotherfucking.website/

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                                  Not requiring you to sign up to see the page contents.

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                                    I don't know if it's a good idea for sites to do so, but I personally hate websites having some sort of timeout and then killing the session if they don't detect activity. I never walk away from my system with it unlocked. Sometimes I need to do other things on another desktop, and I don't want to be forced to manually click things to keep the session live. I will grant that probably, there are people who don't do that, but this really is obnoxious.

                                    Also, very short timeouts on 2FA systems that use stuff like email. I've had antispam systems greylist authentication emails and that create problems with sites that have short timeouts.

                                    If your website is light-mode, also have a dark mode. And respect the user's requested dark-mode setting from the browser via prefers-color-scheme. Don't require them to use the site in some default mode to go through the login process and log in and explicitly set the thing in your internal account settings. That's especially annoying for users who may have something like time-based modes on their system (I don't, always want dark mode, but it's extra obnoxious for them.)

                                    I think that the entire "m." convention for forcing use of a mobile site --- Wikipedia being a prominent example of this practice --- is a terrible idea. It means that mobile users inadvertently send links to desktop users that force a mobile-mode page, which is virtually never desirable for the desktop users. I don't know what the state-of-the-art here is in web dev, but I am very certain that there are better options than that, because lots of sites manage to have a mobile site without doing this. If you want to have a way to force mobile or force desktop mode in your URL, fine. But for God's sake, don't make that the default. I have spent more time manually stripping "m." off Wikipedia URLs on discussion sites so as not to inconvenience desktop users when I happen to be using mobile, or stripping it out of URLs from mobile users when I'm on a desktop...and yes, there are extensions to help with this, but it really shouldn't be a problem in the first place, I think.

                                    I like my browser's back button to work. Some sites maintain session state that cause things to break when moving back to a prior page. Short of some obvious examples, where irrevocable changes to state have occurred (e.g. making a payment at a bank to someone) and it's obviously not possible to back things out, I want to be able to use my browser's features.

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                                      This one I’m not such a fan of. The number of times I’ve found an interesting bulletin board community, and been told I had to wait 48 hours before I could comment once on the introductions board, before waiting another 24 hours to comment once per day on another small set of allowed forums, but only if my introductory comment was approved by the moderation team….

                                      Yeah, the alternative is a bot and troll riddled mess of a site like reddit, but at least I can usually ask for the source of that furry scat porn without being instantly banned for speaking out of turn to the ruling elite of the forum.

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                                      That's exactly what happens in reddit though? If you have too many users and too few admins you have things like karma minimums and bot mods, I haven't had any trouble commenting as a new user on discourse, so I find your experience a bit weird.

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                                        I'm not really familiar with Firefox's performance analysis tools, but fumbling around with the Network tab, with my browser cache off, I believe that that webpage, including all dependent files, had loaded in ~160ms, sans the favicon (which was another 24ms).

                                        So many expensively-developed websites that aren't even remotely as responsive.

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                                          News articles with dynamic scrolling that like, gradually reveal a graph and drip feed text. Just show me the fucking graph and text. Fuck.

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                                          Frankly, animations in general. Okay, for Web-based video games, maybe I get it. If your website is not a video game, why am I watching visual elements zing around? If I walked up to a bank or a grocery store and then had to stop and patiently wait by the door while some animation involving the store's logo or bank played, how many customers would take that store seriously? Why are you doing it on your website? I don't want fade-ins, fade-outs, buttons that slide in from the side, anything like that.

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