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New frontends! (self.feddituk)

submitted 3 months ago by flamingos to c/feddituk

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Happy to announce we've finally setup some alternative frontends.

Photon might be flaky, we're on a release candidate because of issue I was running into using it in Firefox. It's also what I'm using to write this. If you notice any issues, feel free to let us know.

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[–] Emperor 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It scrolls! Dammit. The scrolling on Photon is a bit of a PitA when trying to make longer posts and it looks like it has caught me out here too.

[–] flamingos 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, the text box getting its own scroll window instead of expanding is annoying. It can be expanded, but I imagine that's a pain to do on mobile.

[–] flamingos 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

For anyone else annoyed by this, I've created a userscipt to auto expand the textarea. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Autoexpand textarea
// @namespace   Violentmonkey Scripts
// @match       https://p.feddit.uk/*
// @grant       none
// @version     1.0
// @author      flamingos-cant
// @description 06/08/2024, 21:05:31
// ==/UserScript==

function updateHeight(textarea) {
  var text = textarea.target.value;
  var lineHeight = 1.25 * parseFloat(getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).fontSize);
  var taHeight = textarea.target.scrollHeight - 16 * 2;
  var lines = Math.max(Math.ceil(taHeight / lineHeight), 8);
  textarea.target.rows = lines;
}

setInterval((function () {
  let textareas = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea");
  for (let textarea of textareas) {
    textarea.addEventListener("input", updateHeight);
  }
}), 2000);

[–] Emperor 2 points 3 months ago

Very nice!

[–] Xylight@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

@Emperor@feddit.uk I'll update photon soon to increase the size of the text box as you type.

I'll also tweak parts of the UI to make nested scrolling places more obvious. You can always mention me about this stuff, I want to keep this UI intuitive!