[Experiment] Looking for early feedback on the upcoming update to Explore/Communities screen

First off, looks like a lot of new people joined the community, so welcome! Let me know if you need anything.

I wanted to get some early feedback on the new Explore (previously called communities) page.

Note: This comparison only really works if you're viewing on web.

This is what the update looks like and this is what it previously looked like

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12 Comments

carrotfox@piefed.social · 3 pts · 222d

Much better! Much more readable.

wakest@piefed.social · 2 pts · 219d

This looks so good!

gibandaley@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 221d (1 reply)

I was going to complain about needing to horizontally scroll to see the full list, but the Show More button fully solves that issue. Great update. 

moseschrute@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 221d

Thanks! The goal was to let you quickly peek at the first couple items of a few featured sorts. Maybe you want to see a few trending communities alongside a few new communities without flipping back and forth. But you should still be able to dive into a specific category (sort) if you want.

I'm not necessarily attached to the current 3 featured categories. On Lemmy, I'm featuring TopAll, New, and Active. But I'd love to gather more feedback on the top 3 sorts people more care about.

Multi community feeds will also show up if you're using PieFed or Lemmy V1 beta.

srasmus@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 222d

I think it looks great. Looking forward to it!

itsmistermoon@piefed.social · 1 pts · 217d (5 replies)

Sorry if this is not the right place, not sure where else to ask about this.

I realized there are several communities that appear empty when I visit them on Blorp web. This community for example, !blorp@lemmy.zip, I had to come to piefed.social and then search for it so I could see the posts, otherwise on blorp it looks empty and says "Nothing to see here". Not sure why or how to fix it.

moseschrute@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 217d (4 replies)

What instance are you using with Blorp? Also piefed.social?

itsmistermoon@piefed.social · 1 pts · 217d (3 replies)

Yeah, piefed.social, sorry if I was’t clear. But I actually tried adding a second and third accounts from different lemmy instances and had the same result.

moseschrute@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 217d (2 replies)

What's your post sort set to? A screenshot of the empty feed might be helpful for more context.

itsmistermoon@piefed.social · 2 pts · 217d (1 reply)

Oh! That clue helped me. I think it was the Top 6 hours, didn't realized it applied some kind of filter, I just thought it sorted the posts. A little unintuitive if I may say so (though I guess that's on the fedi services and not on Blorp).

Thanks a lot! That solved my issue.

moseschrute@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 216d

Yeah. I don’t control those sorts, that’s a Lemmy thing. But maybe I could add a message that says “try changing your sort to see content” or something.

Blaze@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 222d

Looks better!