I guess I’ve always been the person who likes UI change, I find it exciting to see that kind of thing. I know a ton of people will hate this, but I personally like it. The Android 12 quick settings menu looked awful to me, white straight next to black. Blur is overdue.

Recent versions of photon should improve this (2.0). Based on what you posted before, you’re using an instance hosting an old version of Photon. (this sort of thing is why I complain about instances hosting photon a lot)

Photon uses some obscure Lemmy API things to download images that actually fit the screen so you aren’t wasting tons of bandwidth on 4k images on a 32x32 profile picture.

As far as I know, no other client does this when it really should. Because of this, Lemmy doesn’t really support what I do all that well, and so the downscaling algorithm Lemmy uses causes images to look really low quality.

Are you using phtn.app or some instance’s hosting of it?

It is irrelevant if an instance doesn’t host Photon, because it is accessible from phtn.app or self-hostable.

Sorry I missed this, my contact is @Xylight@lemdro.id or @Xylight@lemm.ee, my Lemmy instance has been dead for more than a year.

I have only know heard of this project, and it’s definitely something I hoped someone would make. I wished for an easy way to add custom “Lemmy” features such as tags and have always done weird string manipulation.

I’m not sure where we should show these tags, I’d probably show them as icons along with the comment badges on Photon, but I don’t know what else to use.

Have not seen this occur in svelte 5 so hopefully it’ll be fixed when 2.0 releases.

When developing photon I always end up with more issues on chrome browsers than firefox. and half of those are because of its god awful scrollbar. Please use an overlay scrollbar instead of shifting the stupid page around, chrome.

The way I choose my icons for Photon is I kinda just scroll the list of my library and pick one that fits.

Use xdg-ninja to help clear out unwanted files not in your home folder, and give tips to move them into a normal folder like .config

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

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.

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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.

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.

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

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

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

to play devil’s advocate, from reddit’s view those third party apps were just using server resources and making them no money.

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

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.

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.