Community human names instad of ids (very hard)
Hmm, I couldn't find that feature request in the linked post. How would it help to have that? I imagine it would lead to name squatting and this brings huge problems with itself. The community name is human-friendly everywhere except in the URL, no? And if you post the URL somewhere, most places have a link preview so they will show the human-friendly community name.
more ways to sort communities
I know @jarvie was elaborating somewhere on this one. If I remember right, he wrote a post where he was saying how he wants a lot more metadata for each community. I searched but couldn't find that post now. Was able to just find this early one from him with some future thoughts on communities: https://peakd.com/communities/@jarvie/thoughts-about-communities
Sorry some ideas are also coming from the comments or discussions with community members :)
It helps in terms of UX, the closest thing to communities is reddit and people talk a lot in terms of urls, I know I almost never browse manually to subreddits, I directly type like
https://old.reddit.com/r/..... This also helps when you paste a link, you instantly know what community we are talking about instead of being like "ah yes community 849754 totally makes sense"I agree link previews work but it's a bit of a hassle on the front ends to do it. And it doesn't work for everything like a tweet.
re: name squatting. This is where it gets hard, the feature itself is easy to implement, but then we need some mechanism in place to let people challenge ownership of a certain community name which needs to happen in a fair and decentralized way which is where the real challenge lies.