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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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[–] wren 10 points 3 months ago

this is a fab idea :)! thank you for workin on it

[–] Xylight@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Are you using the node server? Is it working well?

[–] flamingos 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, no issues so far.

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

Nothing related to deployment, but I've noticed photon doesn't let you escape markdown like other clients do.

E.g. This:

\>watches french thing  
\>gets mad when it's subversive and weird  
???

Get's displayed like this in photon:

[–] Xylight@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'll look into that. Markdown is absolute hell to make work.

[–] flamingos 3 points 3 months ago

Absolutely get that, I've been doing some stuff with markdown lately and I didn't realise I could hate a file format so much. Best of luck, friend.

[–] Emperor 3 points 3 months ago

While I have you on markdown, this:

> test
>
> test

Is currently displaying like a line break with no extra space between the two, rather than as two different paragraphs.

Other than that - great work. It's clearly the biggest hit of the frontends that we've added.

[–] mannycalavera 5 points 3 months ago

Ooo Photon looks nice. Do you have any troubles using these as a PWA (Progressive Web App)?

And it has full search!

[–] Flax_vert 4 points 3 months ago

Wonderful news!

[–] Streamwave 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Yay. Photon is by far the best imo

Also strongly recommend Photon users change the theme to Catppuccin, it's such a lovely colour scheme

[–] DaiDactylos 2 points 3 months ago

Catppuccin is very easy on the eyes, so cheers for the reminder to change it here too.

[–] Emperor 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How do you change themes? On the themes page the import button doesn't work.

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

Click on your username/avatar at the top right, then Theme, then just click on Catppuccino

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

I only get the options of default and classic.

[–] flamingos 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] 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.

[–] 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!

[–] 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
[–] Streamwave 0 points 3 months ago

Oh, that's interesting. Another user has said in reply to my comment they have the option too. I'm using Brave Browser but I don't have Stylish or anything installed

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

Big fan of old.feddit, before this offering i've been using this frontend: https://o.opnxng.com/feddit.uk/ - but now that you've made old.feddit official, i'll be switching to that.

[–] jabjoe 1 points 3 months ago

Yer, it was the best to me too. I want to see a good chunk of the list, so I don't like the picture being very big. I like your no pictures interface link, I'll try it. Thanks. 😃

[–] UKFilmNerd 3 points 3 months ago

Having tried many of the alternative front ends, Photon is definitely my favourite when accessing Lemmy on my PC/laptop. I shall change my bookmark forthwith! 😄

[–] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 3 months ago
[–] Hossenfeffer 2 points 3 months ago
[–] blackn1ght 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it me or is there no way to collapse comments on Photon?

[–] flamingos 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hit the time stamp after the username, or the dead space after it.

[–] blackn1ght 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cheers, I'll give it a go when I'm next on desktop. Doesn't sound very intuitive though. Other than that I'm quite enjoying it.

[–] Xylight@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Any ideas on a way to make it more intuitive that you can click it?

[–] blackn1ght 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it just needs a little + / - button (or some visual representation) to show the comment can be collapsed, I didn't expect the deadspace to be clickable.

Unreleated, but I've also noticed that sometimes I can't log in using Photon until I've logged in using the "default" web UI, and then coming back to Photon and refreshing fixes it.

[–] flamingos 2 points 3 months ago

Unreleated, but I've also noticed that sometimes I can't log in using Photon until I've logged in using the "default" web UI, and then coming back to Photon and refreshing fixes it.

This is probably due to some server instability we've had lately. We've resolved it, so hopefully it shouldn't happen again.

[–] florge 1 points 1 month ago

Just a small thing. When you go to login on the alexandrite frontend, the instance is autofilled with lemmy.world, instead of feddit.uk.