I posted an apparently off-topic post to [email protected]. The moderator removed it from the timeline because discussion about software that should be FOSS was considered irrelevant to FOSS. Perhaps fair enough, but it’s an injustice that people in a discussion were cut off. The thread should continue even if it’s not linked in the community timeline. I received a reply that I could not reply to. What’s the point in blocking a discussion that’s no longer visible from the timeline?
It’s more than just an unwanted behavior because the UI is broken enough to render a dysfunctional reply mechanism. That is, I can click the reply button to a comment in an orphaned thread (via notifications) and the UI serves me with a blank form where I can then waste human time writing a msg, only to find that clicking submit causes it to go to lunch in an endless spinner loop. So time is wasted on the composition then time is wasted wondering what’s wrong with the network. When in fact the reply should simply go through.
(edit) this is similar to this issue. Slight difference though: @[email protected] merely expects to be able to reply to lingering notifications after a mod action. That’s good but I would go further and propose that the thread should still be reachable and functional (just not linked in the timeline where it was problematic).
We’ve extensively tried to interface with lemmy devs to take the platform in directions which would help our community and our users. We’ve even had people from our instance do exactly what you are talking about. Throwing out advice like without asking if we’ve even done any work feels kind of dismissive.
If you feel strongly about making this platform better, hop on the discord or matrix channel and chip in. We’d love the help and I’m sure plenty of other folks would too.