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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess pull out the dev console and when it crashes log the errors that come up somewhere.

I can't work on this rn because finals

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's an option. You can change the thumbnail alignment to the left, then use compact instead of list mode. OP is using bad settings.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (21 children)

Hi everyone, I'm the dev. Reading all these comments really hurts when it's something you've poured your heart and soul into for over a year.

There's reasons I do everything I do in this UI, and my primary goal is to make Lemmy accessible for everyone.

This is the "cozy" view as well, but there's a "compact" view for people like me who enjoy more information density. Again, my end goal is to make Lemmy accessible. I don't do this for the sidebars for convoluted reasons I won't get into.

I'm not the one trying to advertise it, and I've never really tried to because of the fear of disapproval. I think I should advertise it myself now because then I can showcase the best parts and not get misunderstood. This screenshot uses the "list" view, imo the worst one, with some cursed chrome scrollbars.

Now that I see that the majority of users believe this sucks, I'm not sure if my mission is worth it or if I'm even doing it right.

I'm probably being too sensitive to criticism which I should expect from any project. But this project is the only one I used to feel proud of, then people chiming in claiming it's the ugliest thing they've seen. I don't know im blind to design which is the only thing I considered myself "good" at in terms of web dev.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

General purpose instances are terrible for decentralization because they basically just put every reddit community on .world. instances revolving around a certain topic or region (like country instances or slrpnk or lemdroid) make more sense with the hierarchical structure of Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

If there's an epic games game you want but don't want to use the epic launcher or you're on Linux, Heroic Games launcher id a good choice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That's a good point, i didn't consider the value of the content it creates

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

why the hell do websites even have those 6 separate input fields? you can just have one and style it differently

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

i'm pretty confused why people here understandably hate DRM, monopolies, and billionares, but are fine with steam and Gaben

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I need to add language settings to communities and profiles. I really dislike how lemmy handles this though.

If you change it in lemmy-ui, it will propagate to Photon because it's an account wide setting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (6 children)

You should be able to just replace the lemmy-ui image with the photon image, but you'll need to set a few env variables

PUBLIC_INSTANCE_URL: the domain your Lemmy instance is accessed from. (like lemmy.world)

PUBLIC_INTERNAL_INSTANCE: the url and port for the internal server to access (eg lemmy:8536)

PUBLIC_SSR_ENABLED: enable this to allow server rendering which improves SEO

PUBLIC_MIGRATE_COOKIE: this will automatically migrate lemmy-ui logins to photon.

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Command Palette! (lemdro.id)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm working on a command palette for Photon, which will allow you to press ctrl + p or / to open a prompt where you can type and go to a page or a recent post instantly.

Are there any actions or links that you'd want me to add?

 

This update is currently available on phtn.app, with a tagged release coming soon. Post navigation is down by 65% and returning from posts is instant.

What's Changed

  • feat: add infinite scroll

    • You can now scroll down infinitely without clicking next!
    • As a bonus, returning from a post page is now instant.
    • Of course, you can turn it off in settings.
    • A virtual list is also used so that infinite posts can be loaded with no performance impact.
  • feat: parse tags from title

    • Tesseract dev and I had the same idea, [tags in brackets] in posts will automatically be converted to a badge/flair. You can click it to search for all posts with that tag in a community.
    • I added options which let you choose flairs to blur posts of or hide.
  • tweak link design

  • improve smaller screen support

  • codebase: move $profile to a derived, immutable store to improve consistency

  • i18n: add new languages/update languages

    • Chinese
    • English
    • Estonian
    • French
    • Finnish
    • German
    • Hebrew
    • Portuguese
  • Update p.darrennathanael.com photon region by @DarrenOfficial in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/350

  • Remove empty space left by hideTitle by @sevonj in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/352

  • docs: Post component comments by @sevonj in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/354

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.30.4...v1.31.0-rc.1

 

This update is currently available on phtn.app, with a tagged release coming soon. Post navigation is down by 65% and returning from posts is instant.

What's Changed

  • feat: add infinite scroll

    • You can now scroll down infinitely without clicking next!
    • As a bonus, returning from a post page is now instant.
    • Of course, you can turn it off in settings.
    • A virtual list is also used so that infinite posts can be loaded with no performance impact.
  • feat: parse tags from title

    • Tesseract dev and I had the same idea, [tags in brackets] in posts will automatically be converted to a badge/flair. You can click it to search for all posts with that tag in a community.
    • I added options which let you choose flairs to blur posts of or hide.
  • tweak link design

  • improve smaller screen support

  • codebase: move $profile to a derived, immutable store to improve consistency

  • i18n: add new languages/update languages

    • Chinese
    • English
    • Estonian
    • French
    • Finnish
    • German
    • Hebrew
    • Portuguese
  • Update p.darrennathanael.com photon region by @DarrenOfficial in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/350

  • Remove empty space left by hideTitle by @sevonj in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/352

  • docs: Post component comments by @sevonj in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/354

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.30.4...v1.31.0-rc.1

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test (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm working on adding a feature that will convert tags in the title to flairs, which you can add custom filters/rules to.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hey, I've been working on a few changes to photon that make it a lot faster to open posts and return, and as a result of these changes I can also make infinite scroll work. If you go to this link, Vercel will have commented on the post with a preview link. Those are basically the beta links.

Preview Link

Let me know of any bugs and any changes you'd like!

Current roadmap

  • [x] Make this not duplicate posts in memory
  • [ ] Make this work on all posts
  • [x] Use a virtual list for better render performance
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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

all 0.19.4 features coming soon

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