We can currently filter communities in our feed by 'Subscribed', 'Local' and 'All', but I'd really love a way to add communities to custom groupings, and have additional filter options based on those groupings. For example, a 'News' group that I could add all of the News-related communities to, and be able to click a filter button and see only those... or maybe the use case most people would likely use: creating groups to isolate SFW and NSFW content.
If there's a way to do this that I'm unaware of, I'd love to hear about it.
Not that I know of. Many of these improvements came very quickly due to the reddit thing and weren't that necessary when lemmy was small. Currently you can check the github issues to know that the status on a certain request is:
Super, thanks for the link. It's honestly too bad that the Reddit fiasco happened so suddenly; it'd have been a smoother transition if it had been more gradual, and started with folks who were actively looking for a reason to leave migrating, and having time for the platform to adapt and implement some QOL features at least before the greater population explosion.