I made this post mainly as discussion and suggestion for mods and posting people.
Browsing through this community (and before that, r/unixporn or r/usabilityporn on Reddit) feels a bit like wandering through a shopping catalogue. Sadly, a bad organised one.
Sometimes, I just enjoy looking at the awesome configs of other users and see what some WMs or DEs (or, to be more precise, their users!) are capable of, without any intentions to replicate it.
It’s more of a “Oh, that looks neat, take my upvote!”, but not much more. Similar to an art gallery.
And sometimes, I use it to find some inspiration and to recreate/ apply it on my setup.
In that regard, I always have a hard time sorting out or finding the right stuff.
Say, for example, if I want a good looking KDE setup, and I search for “Light mode”, “Minimalist”, “Elegant”, or some other term, individually, I get random stuff like an anime hyprland configuration or someone posting their Cinnamon setup, because it had above keyword in the title.
Meanwhile, the exact thing I searched for is named “Here’s my comfy KDE style” and isn’t listed in my results.
On Reddit, it was just as bad. And it’s not because of the search capability, it’s because of missing information.
If I search for all keywords together, I of course don’t find anything because it’s too restricted.
A question mainly for the mods: For future search accessibility, what do you think about making a rule (or, at least suggestion) to include category key words (for example “Hyprland, neon, anime, modern, dark mode, minimalist”) aswell as the exact things used (icon theme, dotfiles, etc.) in the description?
In that way, we maybe could make an automated website/ category catalogue where we can filter and search better, where we can search hierarchically, e.g. “Desktop Environments > Plasma > Light mode > Modern” and see all posts linked there.
Another idea would be to link them in the sidebar, e.g. “List of Light KDE themes” or “Captppucin window managers”.
What do you think of that?
I think it’s a bad idea. People will abuse and misunderstand the tags if the community gets really popular and creating a catalogue is not an easy task (probably even impossible on Lemmy)
this idea feels better suited to someone creating a small database thing out of unixporn posts.
imo, the art gallery thing is intentional. here is where u get inspiration, not instruction mrow.
Exactly that is my point. By applying stricter rules to posting, including tagging, we could create exact that database.
I use Unixporn similar to how other people use Pinterest for decorating their home, not only to see cool setups. I personally think that my use case is also valid and not that rare.
If people already make the effort to post, why not make that more searchable and give others like myself the ability to filter?ur use case is valid, but not that which lemmy is designed for, an i doubt stricter rules would be possible, and seriously doubt that u could make lemmy into something like that.
my opinion is that what ur after is a custom website that collates unixporn posts (with op permission) like a booru or something similar, which has a more robust tagging and sorting system.
imo unixporn is not a shopping catalogue like u want it to be, it is a anarchist art gallery where people come to share and see setups
Thanks for sharing your view point, makes sense. Totally understandable!
Sadly, I’m nowhere qualified/ capable enough to host a reasonable website, let alone one that collects content like I imagine it to be.
