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Lemmy Development Update January 2026

4mon 13d ago by lemmy.ml/u/nutomic in announcements@lemmy.ml

Last month Nutomic made some posts in lemmy@lemmy.ml to get feedback and ideas for the official website join-lemmy.org:

Based on these we made various changes to the site. Most importantly, visitors can now register on a suggested Lemmy instance with a single click. Additionally the feature overview, app list, and instance list were reworked.

join-lemmy.org is one of the first search results for people who hear about Lemmy, and want to find out what it is. They should easily be able to register an account to become an active user, with as little friction as possible.

So if you have any suggestions for further improvements, please open an issue or comment below. We especially need help from designers to create better images and polish the design. You can also contribute by translating the site to your language via Weblate.

Now on to the Lemmy code itself. On this front it has been mostly the same as last month: Implementing the new backend features in the UI, bug fixing and minor backend changes. You can follow the progress with these milestones:

If you are impatient to see the new features in production, we share those feelings. But there is still a lot of work needed to make sure the new features work well and make for a good user experience. If you have any experience with web development (or want to learn it), you can also contribute. Checkout the lemmy-ui repo and the milestone above. It is written in standard Typescript with Bootstrap. Additionally you can help by testing the new version on voyager.lemmy.ml and reporting any problems.

Finally here are the major changes from January:

It's January 2026 xd

Oops we are in the new year already. Thanks!

Luckily Lemmy allows editing post titles! Lol

i also keep forgetting the year has changed and it keeps happening more often as i age.

i keep thinking that 2005 was only 5ish years ago. lol

In this case I simply copied the text from last month, and adjusted the year and month everywhere. That is, everywhere except the title :D

Thank you for all this work. These sound great!

Did I understand correctly that you are working on tag and multi community support then?

These are already implemented, you can try them on voyager.lemmy.ml.

Thank you!

Is it planned to allow multiple gallery/carousels? Basically, the ability to attach multiple images to a post. Currently, I simply embed images into the text, but it would be nice to be able to scroll through the images without opening a post.

Edit: found https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5693

Fixed the URL for you, since the period at the end screws it up

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5693

Looks pretty good!