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Community lookup consolidation

Expected

As users are never sure how a community name is written/addressed correctly, Piefed should be most tolerant and helpful.

A user should be able to quickly recover from typos/errors through Piefed's assistance.

Pre-filters for results should be absolutely transparent.

Actual

  • There are many ways and completely different UI/UX for community lookups:
    1. https://piefed.social/communities
    2. https://piefed.social/search (community filter tab)
    3. That "Communities" dropdown on every page's head 1
    4. Post composition (usually pre-assigned because Create Post buttons are on community pages) 1
    5. When linking to communities in text compositors.2
    6. When moving a post3
    7. When cross posting, the user got prompted for a leading "!" until recently.3

  • There's no assistance in the Feed editing view. 4
  • When typing the wrong address e.g. piefed.social/c/piefed_meta_with_typo the user is forwarded to the community creation form, not to a lookup page.

I did not check which of those support lookup by name (url) and/or title. Of course, both should be supported.


1) Restricted to joined and moderated communities (full list!)

2) User has to type "!"

3) UI freezes after typing "!"

4) "!" is not allowed but should be tolerated.

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