Took me a while and an AskLemmy post to figure this out, since I initially thought Lemmy was auto-modding commenters (which kinda made me panic), but this is what I see:

I am the only mod in this community, and others aren’t seeing this flag everywhere, so commenters aren’t actually modded.

Is this a bug with Voyager or with my instance?

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    Thanks!

    This is what I’m seeing:

    It’s not a username colour – that would be ideal. It’s a green shield badge.

    e: you said: ‘In addition, for admins, both local and remote it changes to red with or without a checkmark inside of the shield as a signal on what actions can be performed by admins on a given piece of content’

    I have no idea what you mean by this. We were talking about username colours, and that made sense, though I haven’t seen that. Now we’re on checkmarks, which I see, but doesn’t make sense. Does that make sense?

    • aeharding@vger.socialMEnglish
      7·
      11 days ago

      What I mean is your username will be green if you distinguish your comment so that others know you’re a moderator.

      Voyager doesn’t show users that you’re a moderator unless you explicitly distinguish your comment, to allow you to interact without asserting yourself.

      Edit: as an example, I just distinguished this comment

      • LillyPip@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        Great, thanks. I love all the customisation features Voyager has!

        I still don’t understand all the green shields after every commenter’s name, though.

        • aeharding@vger.socialMEnglish
          4·
          11 days ago

          It’s essentially a shortcut button, that’s all. And show you what actions you can take at a glance on an arbitrary piece of user generated content.

          • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 days ago

            I think the mod action button should be more similar to the default layout icon from the web UI.

            • aeharding@vger.socialMEnglish
              3·
              11 days ago

              It’s not going to change, sorry. This is the way Apollo has done it and I really enjoy its UX. For new Voyager mods, I recommend giving it time to get used to it.

              • LillyPip@lemmy.caOPEnglish
                31·
                11 days ago

                That’s cool, and I was amongst the biggest Apollo fangirls on the planet, but just because Apollo jumped off a cliff doesn’t mean you have to.

                This particular bit of design is not ideal.

                I’ve been designing UIs on iOS, Mac, and Windows for decades, and this is confusing.

                e: especially for newish users, who we’re trying to attract to Lemmy, right?

                • aeharding@vger.socialMEnglish
                  2·
                  10 days ago

                  New Lemmy users aren’t mods usually, so they won’t see this UI element. In any case though, I like this UI 😉