I have noticed fleeting “toasts” appearing when I use lemmy, like for instance when saving and having attached an image that wasn’t included. I assume the message was pehaps about that? But I’ve never had the chance to read any of those messages. I assume the timeout is set to 1000ms or something, maybe less even? Would it be possible to make those messages dismissible or at least set the timeout to 3500 ms.
Hi again. I’m a super new user to lemm.ee or Lemmy, so I know nothing about how it works or the culture we nurture for communicating with each other. Found my way here as part of the initiative to choose European tech when there are viable alternatives. The reason I posted my observations in this thread was because @Blaze suggested as much.
I do have a github account since 2010. I’m a web developer and UX designer. It felt natural to me to suggest obvious improvements, not as a criticism, but because usually there’s like a million things to work on and consider and it can be helpful to get things pointed out to you, so you can create a ticket and get it done. That’s usually how I feel about it.
As for this specific issue, providing that the people making these decisions agree, it would probably just require adjusting the timeout value for the “toast” component (maybe it has another name).
I’m aware that this is free software, I’ve been involved in Open Source projects before, and I’m not making any “demands” or “complaints”, just trying to, in a friendly manner, point out what could potentially be improved because as I mentioned usually I am grateful for that extra help in projects I’m involved with.
I don’t think it costs us anything to keep a positive, encouraging and friendly tone with each other. If one doesn’t have the time to write a welcoming and friendly response, perhaps one should leave it for later or for a colleague to respond?
I’ll post my suggestions in the GitHub repository. ( Or maybe we should post it in “Codeberg”? 😉 )
Best regards