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Democracies where everyone over a certain age can vote tend to not work that way. Plutocracies even less so.

When they go low... we bust through the floor to go even lower! (My bastardization of a quote from Michelle Obama.)

I mean... you're not wrong.

Yes, that is exactly what is going on. No need to like look it up or anything. (/s 🤪)

The childs are for eating.

What do you mean "probably"? I can look up the exact quote if you need but what you said was pretty damn close to precisely what he said!?!

Oh that's wonderful! I tried to test out bold within italics and italics within bold and both worked... this time. Thank you for your efforts, they are super appreciated!

More generally, I love being proven wrong about PieFed. On Lemmy if you say "this feature does not exist", then five years later it's still an accurate statement, whereas on PieFed... it's so hard to keep up with because it's so readily changed, by such dedicated fans like... well, YOU! 😊🎉💪🤩

Oooh, vote stats. How many from community subscribers vs. not, from each instance, perhaps a timeline of when they came in, etc. Reddit had something similar.

Not if always done by what looks to be random accounts, and also that takes effort, which gets harder as a community grows in size.

Hrm, good point, and also that raises an interesting idea: to allow posts forbidding downvotes even when on an instance that allows downvoting overall.

With a poll though, you'll still get people spamming weird entries, so that would require a system to moderate the submitted entries, which gets back closer to comments to a post.

Each individual feed is exactly like that, I was missing though that you want cross-topic feeds. That might defeat the purpose of having a "Topic", which are designed more for new users to see what's available.

Although I believe that a "Feed" is exactly what you may be looking for, or at least my understanding of that. They are user customizable and even shareable, so you can put all the communities you want into such a feed and then load that. Politics, memes, art, history, news, you name it, including any topic areas you want and none that you do not, and then have a separate feed for like gaming, music, etc., maybe a third one for quiet reflections like poetry or whatever, and swap out whatever feed fits your current mood.

It takes a bit of doing - either to find an existing one that perfectly suits your desires, or rolling your own custom one, but I think that would scratch that itch?

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. 😊