Request: I’m looking for a more inclusive way to search for communities as a neurodivergent person.

There are two ways to discover new communities:

• Search for a specific community

• Browse communities

On various instances the browse feature is unworkable if you have focus issues like ADHD.

What I would like help with:

I would like to browse an alphabetical list of communities without large graphics.

Extra sorting by genre is unnecessary and I don’t need page breaks. Page breaks would be a nice-to-have, but I can always use the letters as breaks. I’m not looking for communities based on membership/posts/comments either.

A bonus feature would be searching for communities using a filter of subscribed or unsubscribed.

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More specifics if it would be helpful:

Distracting graphics

Feddit.de’s list has very large graphics for some communities in addition to community icons. It’s overwhelming. Lemmy.world only has small community icons. That’s better as they aren’t too intrusive. Some have additional animated icons though. I can deal with that, but it would be nice if they weren’t there.

Continuous scrolling

Feddit.de’s list is continuous scroll. I don’t know how to describe what happens with continuous scrolling other than saying I feel lost in a short period of time. I don’t know where I am in the list, even with the scroll bar on the right of the screen. I mean, I’m in the list somewhere in that area, but did I scroll too fast and miss something?

I’ve tried lemmyverse.net/communities, too. There is nowhere for the eye to land on the screen. There are large, distracting graphics, and it has the continuous scroll feature.

Lemmy.world has pages (fantastic!), but no page numbers to make sure I stay on track, and I have no idea how many pages are in the list. I’ve never managed to reach the end and I’ve spent a lot of time on it. Also, if I come back to the communities search later that day or the next day, the items on the individual pages have shifted. I can’t pick up where I left off. I love that we get new communities, but I’d like to search a-z and then maybe come back in a month to view that list again to browse for new communities, especially if I can search with the filter of unsubscribed communities.

Filter for subscribed/unsubscribed

On Lemmy.world I can see if I am subscribed to a community, however, there are statistics in between the community name and subscription status. Processing vertical scrolling and horizontal scrolling simultaneously is frustrating. It would be more useful to have a filter of subscribed or unsubscribed.

I do love Feddit.de’s filter for instances. An on/off button next to each name. I’m not looking to sort by instance, but that setup is really cool if you want to show subscribed and unsubscribed on the same page. It’s very workable.

Thank you.