I have questions about the native web interface.

What do you do to keep track of posts you have seen? i.e. You like the post, would like to see more discussions, how to keep track of them? On Reddit, you can click the Bell button and be notified/emailed about the follow-ups. On Lemmy, I’ve been hitting the save button to go back and look.

What do you do to keep track of comments? On Reddit, you can “Follow” the comment and be notified/emailed about the responses. On Lemmy, I can’t keep track of them, except via the Save button for the entire post above there is a save button on each comment as well…

Thanks!

edited: there is save button on each comment.

Partial solution: use Save button for Post or Comment, and sort the comments by whichever way to let you see new/interesting comments.

  • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I think this is a case where the Lemmy features and client just aren’t there yet. It’s improving fast, but it’s not going to catch up to 15y of reddit development overnight.

    As to how I handle these things:

    • Mostly I browse by new and don’t excessively revisit posts/comment-threads.
    • If there’s something I really want to dig into but I’m not ready yet, I save it. I only do this a couple times a week, like for example I regularly do it with https://lemmy.ml/c/formula1 race threads if I haven’t watched the race yet and don’t want spoilers.
    • If I want to revisit a post/thread as it develops, I’ll scroll back through my recent comment history to find it. If a post really takes off and has more than 50-75 comments, I get lost anyway and have trouble finding new stuff… though sorting by new helps find top-level comments at least.

    None of this is fancy or sophisticated, but it works well enough for me.

    • Yeah2206@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Very good to hear your perspectives. I find myself lost in the barrage of new comments as well.