With the PieFed API support having been enabled for about a week now, a lot of you have been trying Interstellar for the first time.

What do you feel is missing? What is the feature you would like added most? What pain points do you run into? Also, feel free to include what you already like about the app.

This is no guarantee, btw, I just want to get some feedback from y’all and hopefully we can find some points of improvement.

Lastly, there are a lot of PieFed specific features that are not supported by the API, and we obviously wouldn’t be able to add support to Interstellar until they are in the API. We can still discuss them here if you’d like. Those features include Feeds, Topics, Polls, Flairs, Tags, admin/mod tools, and probably more.

  • jwr1@kbin.earthOP
    5·
    2 days ago

    I don’t know if I’ve missed some configuration option

    No, you haven’t missed anything. ATM, all replies open an inline text editor.

    The issue I have with the current reply is that it’s just too small. It’s a third of my screen so not only do I not get a good overview of my reply I also have to scroll a lot just to proofread.

    I can definitely see it being an issue, especially on smaller screens. Maybe we could add an option to set whether you want commenting to be inline or on a separate page.

    • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      If you could add that it would definitely make my day because it’s my biggest gripe with the app. But it definitely should be an option so people who enjoy the current implementation could stick with that.

      I also remembered another thing that’s a bit annoying. Sometimes I want to visit specific communities because they’re not popular enough to always pop up in my feed. I’m not sure how you sort the subscription list but it makes no sense to me. I ended up starring the handful of communities I specifically visit because finding them from my subscriptions list was just too much effort. I think it would make sense to have communities in an alphabetical order, first by community name and then by instance name. Not a big issue because I was able to filter out the specific communities I was looking for but still a bit annoying because I first need to find the community before starring it.

      Beyond those two things you’ve done an excellent job with the app.

      • jwr1@kbin.earthOP
        1·
        2 days ago

        I think it would make sense to have communities in an alphabetical order

        Unfortunately, that’s just not possible with either Mbin, Lemmy, or PieFed, as there’s no way to request a list of communities sorted alphabetically. The stars feature will be your best bet, as it’s kind of meant to fix having to dig through your subscriptions list.

        Beyond those two things you’ve done an excellent job with the app.

        Thank you!