What features from some site do you wish were used in more sites?
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Being able to make notes about users like you can on Mastodon.
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For any website that has some sort of search or filtering, a function to exclude items. A couple examples of this that have annoyed me enough to still remember them:
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Trying to set a filter for every GPU with more than 12GB of RAM, excluding the 3060. I had to instead select like two dozen chipsets manually.
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This is now fixed, but you didn't used to be able to filter excluding game tags on Steam. This made more general tags useless, as people over-apply them. For example, CS2 Marvel Rivals, Black Desert, and DbD are all tagged as strategy games, so without the option to filter them out, it was way harder to browse.
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On Lemmy, there doesn't seem to be any search operators, nonetheless '-'. Given how useless the search already is, and the fact that nothing gets indexed on the major search engines, finding anything on Lemmy is impossible.
Omg I want this so badly for the xbox marketplace.
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Being able to make notes about users like you can on Mastodon.
I do this on discord
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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.
prefers-color-schemecriminally underutilised , gotta agree there
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An easy mechanism to report bugs or other issues without leaving the page
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I've become a big fan of hitting the slash key to focus the search box, escape to unfocus and also tab for filling out the suggested sentence while maintaining focus to the search box
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I've become a big fan of hitting the slash key to focus the search box, escape to unfocus and also tab for filling out the suggested sentence while maintaining focus to the search box
Shash to search is a Vim keybind.
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For any website that has some sort of search or filtering, a function to exclude items. A couple examples of this that have annoyed me enough to still remember them:
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Trying to set a filter for every GPU with more than 12GB of RAM, excluding the 3060. I had to instead select like two dozen chipsets manually.
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This is now fixed, but you didn't used to be able to filter excluding game tags on Steam. This made more general tags useless, as people over-apply them. For example, CS2 Marvel Rivals, Black Desert, and DbD are all tagged as strategy games, so without the option to filter them out, it was way harder to browse.
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On Lemmy, there doesn't seem to be any search operators, nonetheless '-'. Given how useless the search already is, and the fact that nothing gets indexed on the major search engines, finding anything on Lemmy is impossible.
wrote last edited by [email protected]This is now fixed, but you didn't used to be able to filter excluding game tags on Steam.
Though Steam doesn't have a single unified search interface. You're probably referring to the most-comprehensive one, the one used on the Steam Store after you've performed a search. That one does have "exclude tag" functionality now. But there are a bunch more, which have varying levels of completeness in functionality. For example, the list that comes up on the store when you click on a sale. Or the list of games in the sidebar in your library. Or the list of games on the "shelf" in your library, in the large pane. They don't all support the same criteria.
I have before commented to say that I wish that they'd unify all their search interfaces.
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peertubes webtorrents. please just let me download the video. I'll even help serve it.
yt-dlpsupports a number of video streaming websites, not just YouTube. -
yt-dlpsupports a number of video streaming websites, not just YouTube.I know this. I want websites to feature webtorrents
