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Many posts don't have a language selected so 'content language' preference should either allow selecting those, or a setting to reverse it turning it into a block list with all languages automatically selected, then allow the user to deselect his language to block the rest.

Allow user to view only votes from the instance they are using

Allow voters to write their own choices in polls

I don't know if these already exist, but thinking long-term of how to prevent Reddit-like problems:

• An option to move a post to a different community (with the agreement of the other community's moderators) if the post is in the wrong community, but otherwise seems valid/good-faith/high-effort/etc.

• And for the opposite situation where the post is just garbage, but highly upvoted by bots/brigading, there could be a "nuke it from orbit" option that not only deletes it and bans the poster, but also bans everyone that upvoted it.

A user setting to customize vote display: users could choose to see only upvotes for their own content, while viewing others' content by upvote percentage, or only upvotes, or see both upvotes and downvotes, instead of only total votes.

Add ability to use keyword filter on community names and instance names. For example I want to filter out all meme communities.

Firm up the foundationals: proper parsing of complex formatting (e.g. a bolded section within an italic section), which reminds me: enabling a Preview ability for comment replies to posts not just to existing comments. Also, the former might have already been done though I definitely recall instances in the past where it did not work.

Clean up notifications: e.g. if a post is deleted after you receive a notification about it, then either delete the notification also or at least let us see the post - it's super annoying to have a notification that goes nowhere.

Also, notification links should always actually go to the things they point at. On some posts the comments are now loading separately for some reason (perhaps if there's a lot of them? but even then why not load them at page start rather than delay?), which breaks the Notification links. Many things break those notification links actually. Another one is people from instances that you have blocked - you can't see the comment that the link tries to take you to anyway, so what use is the notification at that point? Either remove the latter or... something, maybe show the comment after all in that special case (except wait no, if you blocked everyone from an instance then likely you did so for a reason, and do not want notifications from them?).

Edit: here is an example link, where it looks like the Continue thread breaks the link to go where it needs to on the page.

These kinds of "polish" features that are still lacking are annoying and I for one would love to see them worked on, before adding all kinds of other features that I'll likely never use - whereas typing out comments and viewing notifications are the top 1/2 of all things that I do on PieFed (besides look at posts and vote on them:-P) so these would highly benefit from being polished! 😄

Though I still love PieFed even while having to wait for them too. 😊

User-created sorting methods: If the API exposes post metadata (e.g., timestamps, tags, upvotes, etc.), and the plugin system allows client-side scripting (e.g., JavaScript plugins), users could fetch post metadata and experiment implementing their own custom sorts in the browser.

Add the ability to manually add a user, community, domain or instance block in the user settings like lemmy has.

Watch tags from mastodon, even if no community was pinged. "Tag as community" so to speak

Not sure if I’m missing the option, but hide posts that you have already interacted with.

UI: instead of Lemmy-like main view, offer a list of selected feeds as tabs in the main view