Best meme browsing interface on the threadverse

submitted by Rimu edited

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXVhb4sVZV4

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Not sure if you noticed but half the threadverse is memes. They're not my thing but I enjoyed putting together the best meme consumption experience I could.

Check it out in this video or go to https://piefed.social/topic/chilling/memes?layout=masonry_wide&sort=hot to use it yourself. Click/tap on any image for a full screen lightbox-style image gallery that you can move through by swiping or using the arrow keys.

Can you think of any improvements?

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This is really cool.

Only 'cos you asked of course, but in terms of improvements:
a link to the comments? (which then raises the question of how you'd navigate back ...)
handling 404s: e.g https://piefed.social/post/21819 (lemmy has lost the image, so it just endlessly buffers)

ericjmorey , edited

This is not my style. I prefer either the "photon UI" method of showing all media in a single column with a fixed height or the style of "old.lemmy" and "Alexandrite UI" with a single column with no fixed height and minimal headers and footers for titles and action options. However most of my browsing is on communities with minimal significance for media because the post is a text post or the post is a link to some text based article, so I use the default lemmy UI most of the time. I also like that the Sync app gives a bunch of UI options around that but haven't developed a habit of using that app on mobile.

I like that piefed smartly defaults to a visual media based view for communities that mostly post images. Could you add a single column view of expanded images for image those heavy communities?

Also, I noticed that the community selection on piefed gives no indication of which instance a community is on which is often not important to me but when 2 communities have the same title, it becomes a guessing game on mobile and many may not think to look at the URL preview.

Rimu [OP]

Thanks for your feedback.

I think a single column (expanded) view would work well on a phone.