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?

  • aeharding@vger.socialMEnglish
    4·
    13 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·
      13 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·
        13 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·
          12 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·
            12 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 😉

            • LillyPip@lemmy.caOPEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              With all due respect, newish Lemmy users won’t become mods or create communities with that attitude.

              Everyone is new sometime. We need to make it easy. (Don’t let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy.)