Ideas for road map items were gathered from the PieFed community and each idea now has it's own post here. Now I need to prioritize them so to assist me with that, please upvote those ideas that are important to you, ignore those that do not and only downvote when an idea seems like a counter-productive waste of time and energy.

Vote for as many ideas as you like but be selective. Something like upvote your top 10 ideas and downvote the bottom 5, that kind of thing.

UPDATE: Roadmap has been finalised! Thanks for your participation everyone!

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/project_management/roadmap.md

To make it I went through https://piefed.social/c/piefed_2025?sort=top adding things in order until I started to doubt we'd get it all done this year. So some things didn't make it into the final roadmap but they're still at https://piefed.social/c/piefed_2025 so they won't be forgotten for 2026 ;-)

Of course whether something is on the roadmap or not won't stop us scratching whatever itches are strongest at the time but it will give us something to refer to when there is no itch...

Another topic that I didn't see in the list: a goodly fraction of the time when I click a Notification link, it does not go to whatever it seems to be trying to point at. Sometimes this is an issue with Notifications itself while other times it is a mismatch with the rules for post rendering. This is definitely one of the more frustrating things with using PieFed atm.

The reasons that I've tracked such issues down to include but may not be limited to:

• the comment being too deep, i.e. it is buried with the Continue thread link (so it takes you to the OP, but then what is someone supposed to do to find whatever triggered the notification?)
• auto-collapsing or even auto-hiding, e.g. if you reply to a comment and then afterwards the comment you replied to receives 50 downvotes, the Notifications link will take you to the OP but you won't be able to see the comment itself anymore, nor to find it with a browser text search: it would be helpful if going directly to a comment link should be an exception to the auto collapse/hide rules? (not merely removing the Notification in that case, bc you've already signaled a willingness to engage with the content, e.g. chosen to expand it if it started off as collapsed)
• the post was removed (yet the Notification remains?); I forget if I've ever seen this happen with the comment itself having been removed but definitely good to check proper behavior for that as well:-) I suppose theoretically people could reply to that reply to your comment, but I don't see much value in still being sent to read something that no longer exists.
• your account has blocked the user, possibly even all users from a domain, but either way you are told that there is something to read and yet after clicking, the page refuses to show what that is:-|

This and an inline comment feature would be my top priorities to see in order to be ready for a mainstream audience rather than solely those of us with an early adopter mindset :-).

Another suggestion I see is the "Comments" view that Lemmy has. I'm probably in the minority, but I sometimes use it to see the latest comments in a community when there are many in a thread, and it's easier to see them that way

Oh that is so cool, I didn't notice it had that feature. That was really useful for me especially for modding using the RiF app back on Reddit.

Edit: oh I see why I forgot about it already - it only shows one page then stops, with the Next button not working. It could still be useful I suppose, but only for those few comments that you can get, with sorting options, to fit into one page.

Yes! I use this to help with modding. I can't necessarily view every comment thread of every post very easily, so flipping over to the comment view makes keeping tabs on them easier.

Edit: oh I see why I forgot about it already - it only shows one page then stops, with the Next button not working. It could still be useful I suppose, but only for those few comments that you can get, with sorting options, to fit into one page.

Yes indeed, but usually a page is enough to catchup

A separate, minor suggestion: sometimes I want to send someone a link to something so that they can read it, thus I find very helpful the "View original on <instancename>" (another edit #3, I just noticed that the rest of this paragraph did not get rendered at all until I inserted a slash before the greater than sign there) link in the hamburger menu for a post, and I would like to see similar added for comments as well. Right now I have to scroll all the way up to the top (not that hard on its own:-), follow the link to the original post on the other instance, find again the comment that I want to share a link with, and then use that little chain link looking icon (kinda like this ⛓️ but not entirely and it may look different for you anyway:-).

This is not something I do every day or even week, but it's often enough to notice its absence and would make PieFed feel more like it was catching up to feature parity with some of those kinds of Lemmy Quality of Life features that PieFed still lacks. Especially if it is a fairly easy to add feature:-).

An example of using this could be the !Bestoflemmy@lemmy.world community that highlights great comments across the Fediverse.

Edit: two more suggestions along similar lines are:

• finding a linkable community name without having to leave PieFed, e.g. !fediverselore@lemmy.ca works but !FediLore + Fedidrama@lemmy.ca does not, though if there is a way to find the former without having to go to the original instance then that definitely is not obvious
• being able to find my own comments more easily, as I just did now to edit this one. I can go to my profile at https://piefed.social/u/OpenStars, and then either scroll down a lot or search for the word Comment and click through all the various times that appears on the page in order to finally get to it. It would be nice if there were a button, as there is on Lemmy, e.g. one for Posts another for Comments and another for Overview of both:-).

These kinds of UI improvements would really help, even if an app (and first an API) were to be developed, bc people's first impressions will be formed by visiting the website.

I hope these suggestions aren't annoying, and rather helpful.😉

Edit 2: another one is that the last time I checked, the username sign in was somehow case sensitive. It's been a few weeks and sorry I don't recall all the details but check in on this bc that will absolutely be someone's very first experience with starting out here.😁

Good feedback, thanks!

This was tough. They are all great suggestions. I didn't see any that, I thought, were a waste of time to do or bad ideas.

Thank for the roadmap 2025 ! 😁👍

I wish the best for Piefed. Regrouping community by their topic is the best idea. I really enjoyed it. It's cleaner.

And i hope we will see a closer integration with mastodon (picture, subcription to masto user, seeing who follow you...). Maybe some accessibility feature for blind people...ect, ect.

I would add lot feature but that would be too much work and there is already plenty ideas. :)

(Otherwise i'll end up writting a novel...)

Yeah I wanted to upvote everything. It might have been better if people were able to drag a list into an order and then average that across all the responses but that would need a different tool and I really wanted to use PieFed for this process.