Photon

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v2.2.2…v2.3.0

I realize that I never posted this link publicly anywhere other than my donation page, though it's existed for quite a while.

Very few lemmy instances actually proxy images, and this makes it impossible to run image transforms (compression and resizing). this leads to a lot of scenarios where some profile picture that gets rendered at 24x24px is actually downloading a full-size 4K image. additionally, you’ve connected to hundreds of domains in the process of scrolling your home feed, leaking your IP address to all of them.

I turn off infinite scroll cause it bugs out sometimes, and there’s always a page count and arrow buttons, except when I go to “saved.” I know I’ve saved more than 10 things, and I don’t think they’ve all been deleted, so I thought I’d report it.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v2.2.1…v2.2.2

I get blank empty screen a lot when I’m in page inbox.

It is recommended to install this update as soon as possible, it contains important security fixes.

Since yesterday, scrolling is broken for me on Photon Web. The posts are jumping up and down so I lose what I was just reading, new posts are often not loaded and when they finally are, they jump a couple of posts down so I have to go back up to find where I was. Sorry, can’t explain it any better. It does not happen on Lemmy.ml or other Lemmy web apps. Any idea what’s going on?

Anyone having the same issue?

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v2.1.0…v2.1.1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v2.0.2…v2.1.0

I’ve just found out that some Lemmy web interfaces let you sign in with multiple accounts and switch between them easily. Is there any client that can show notifications from all accounts at the same time, so I don’t need to switch back and forth?

I tend to be quite opinionated on design, but I’d like to hear any issues you have regarding:

Hi guys. I dunno if any of you use MacOS but it’s fuckin stupid and if you ever click the share icon, it only gives you options to share to/from Mac products. I don’t use any Mac products other than MacOS. There’s literally no way to just copy a link from the share button. If I just copy the link from the URL bar and send it to someone it will say “mismatching instance” (whatever that means) with no way to resolve it.

a Peertube video in Lemmy

Hi, first of all thank you for all the work you put into photon! I really love the interface and have been using it for many months now.

a lot of design changes, not many new features

EDIT: Finished! Piefed support is live on phtn.app.

GitHub has always been generally a platform that doesn't align well with my and many peoples' values regarding open source software development, I only used it because it's the most popular.

PieFed is growing fast, and some mobile apps like Voyager etc. now support it.

Photon is two years old now! (I missed the birthday which was 2 weeks ago. :< )

Can't see my comment history... Using phtn.app

There has been a change to how the submission page works under profile. I used to see posts and comments one the same page, now it's separate and it needs an extra click to see my comments. I would love to have a setting where I can choose how to display that content: posts, comments, or both - and Photon would remember the setting. It's not a big thing, just a convenience and for my use case a regression to how it worked before.

Sometime recently, the page that shows while the content is loading got changed to have a dark color theme, even on light mode. This is slightly surprising for my eyes every time I click on a button to get a flash of dark and then light.

In the window that pops up when replying to someone, the viewport that shows the original comment is obscured if it exceeds the size of the container that it's in. There is a sort of fade away effect towards the bottom, which is fine, but the problem is that there doesn't appear to be any way to scroll or expand the comment to view the full size.

I am currently working on alpha PieFed support for Photon.

Hello! As the piefed API has been released a week or so ago, i'm wondering of photon will ever support it? The APIs are very similar, so it would not need much modification to get it working.

The Svelte 5 migration has progressed enough that I think it's safe to release betas now.

Photon has been fully localized and you can translate it to your native language now! (will not be released until v1.30)

Upon going back to the feed page from a post page, the feed tends to load in at a different point (higher up) than where it was before. This results in a lot of repetitive scrolling.

Hey, I noticed that the expand/collapse button tends to block text sometimes. Is there any way that it could be made transparent when hovering the mouse over it? Also, the hover text should say 'collapse' when the text has already been expanded.

See big red box on image attached (collapse as in the feature on reddit)

I dont see any posts in this forum, is this a me issue? (sorry am new)

It's been on a separate URL for a while now but it is now on phtn.app.

that's it

So the overall layout won't change, and if you're using default navigation settings, you'll barely notice any difference.

I use Lemmy for bigger news and all that, but sometimes I like to showcase little things I've done in Photon or tweaked. Maybe even hold polls there.

Photon I feel is a representation of my general ability to do software development, as it's my biggest project. I'm disappointed in myself for how it's been going so far suddenly.

Basically, title. It started happening a few weeks ago. Sometimes it happens right away and freezes the whole DE, more often it happens after scrolling for a while. I know nothing about .js so let me know how I could help diagnose it.

It seems like contrary to Lemmy-UI, Photon does not display the user supplied post language anywhere and also has no way to set the post language in the UI. Nor does it have the profile setting to set language visibility.

*Approximately **70%* complete

I used to ask these a lot during Photon's early development, but I decided to do one now.

Hi,

this security issue can only be triggered by users fault, but it's up to the UI designer to prevent user mistakes causing potential credential leaks.

Vercel has been a PITA for a few reasons I won't go into, and I eventually reached a usage limit that made the site unusuable. Cloudflare pages has no usage limits, so I have switched to that. Nothing different should be noticable, except that initial loads might be slightly faster.

I don't see how I can do that. There is no way to access the sidebar that's visible on desktop when I'm on mobile.

verification for lemmy apps: LemmyApps/#2

The readme talks about docker. I’m not a docker user. I did a git clone when I was on a decent connection. ATM I’m not on a decent connection. The releases page lacks file sizes. And MS Github conceals the size:

Photon has a feature on links which gets data from Media Bias Fact Check to determine its media bias. However, I've seen controversy on lemmy.world's bot with this, and I'm not sure if this is the best place to get the data from.

A lot of admins trying to host photon have been unable to after i switched from Node to Bun server. Bun is a newer server that is significantly faster, but it seems to have caused issues when hosting for weird reasons when people try to host it.

UPDATE! Fewer than 15% of Lemmy Apps display posts accurately

Photon, on mobile browser, seems to “snap” to the beginning of each post when scrolling. Is there a way to turn this feature off?

When I changed the default theme I saw someone say I should name the classic theme "AMOLED". Apparently, the theme was so dark to a lot of people that it appeared black! I guess my designer's eye and working on photon for over a year made me not notice this.

So I'm looking for a new client, specifically mobile, that's FOSS, easy to use, allows for browsing communities on other instances easily (not just searching for instances, but actually viewing the list of instances, etc).

TL;DR: nonstandard community and user links should work properly now, when people waste their time by doing [!community@instance.url](https://instance.url/c/community) instead of !community@instance.url

This will be a test post for markdown, as I'm switching to a faster markdown renderer that will allow me to do some cool stuff, like allow expanding images and running my code in markdown.