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Photon has had a lot of progress made recently. From a new design system to becoming a drop in replacement, changes are made constantly.

This is not everything that has changed, but there's a lot.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/245558

I've added the following:

• password resets
• verify email routes
• option to change password when logged in
• a warning message when your session expires

Photon can now be used as a default UI with (hopefully) no issue!

However, Photon cannot setup a new instance currently. This only works on instances that have already been setup with lemmy-ui, you can swap it out.

v1.15.0 will add a UI to do this.

instance admins, a docker image and setup instructions are available here. It is recommended you set the PUBLIC_SSR_ENABLED env var to true to let search engines crawl the site.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/237690

Lots of updates were pushed today, here's the changes since v1.10.3:

v1.12.0

• feat: multiple removal reply presets
  • you can now have multiple presets for removal replies/messages.

v1.11.2

• feat: add voting animations
• misc: add warning toast when trying to vote while not logged in

v1.11.1

• feat: add a route indicator in the top left

v1.11.0

• Center images and set max height by @sant0s12 in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/153
• Show "hidden" for missing mod names in modlog by @sant0s12 in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/156
• Added photon.zhenyapav.com as a public instance by @ZhenyaPav in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/154
• Better images
  • Show a blurred background behind images
  • Use a default width to decrease CLS
• Add an option to limit layout width for better readability

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/233948

Yet another view type has been added: cozy

It is essentially just the card view, but without a background. I quite like it.

• feat: made images slightly more round
• feat: add lemmy version to site card
• upgrade: mono-ui: 0.3.3 -> 0.3.5
• feat: copy community id to clipboard when clicked
• feat: only show comment form when you click "create comment"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/203455

I've tweaked the colors for light theme quite a lot. I think they look nice. It means I can make the background of buttons white, giving a clear separation.

• Tweak light theme colors
• Overhaul community page
• Add Inter font
  • I kept the default as System UI. You can enable Inter from the settings.
• Upgrade to Mono v0.3.2

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/176453

What's new:

• feat: Add ability to manage federated instances
  • You can even upload a CSV!
• feat: Add markdown to post titles
  • Since this is a rare occurrence i didn't turn the title input into a markdown editor.
• feat: Use notification date instead of submission date for inbox
• feat: Expand images on click
  • I've made this an option since some people might dislike it.

Other stuff I haven't mentioned from previous updates:

• fix: Subscribed text being cut off
• change some wording
• Add a back button and reload comments button to post pages
• Add error handling to RelativeDate

Thanks for all your support on Photon! I'm still working on localization.

I saw someone ask what Photon is, so I decided to make a sticky post for this.

Photon is an alternative client for Lemmy.

You probably have heard of "clients" like Sync for Lemmy and Jerboa, Connect, etc. Photon is another client, but instead of being an app, it is a web app. You can essentially use it as a website, by going to https://phtn.app . It's like the client Voyager.

The part that confuses a lot of people is that some people self-host Photon for their instance. Instances can host their own version of Photon if they wish, and can set a setting to add some flair for that specific instance. This is still "photon", it's just on a different domain and linked to that instance essentially.

Photon is currently one of the only clients with full feature-parity to the default interface, lemmy-ui.

Link to this post if someone asks what Photon is.

in a thread complaining about the general state of lemmy, I read a comment where someone linked the alternative lemmy UI Photon. some general thoughts:

• this shit looks like new.reddit, which I hate
• however, it is extremely fast
• it looks like someone with UX experience was at least in proximity to this at the time it was designed?
• I don’t think there’s an easy CSS way to make this look less like new.reddit
• having tried it on a test instance, the promise of better mod/admin tools seems ambitious currently, though maybe they’ll get there faster than lemmy-ui
• overall, it feels a lot nicer to use than either lemmy-ui or new.reddit

you can hook Photon up to awful.systems using the Accounts option in the menu on the top right, though for opsec reasons I can’t encourage anyone to log in to this weird external site with their awful.systems credentials. check it out with the guest instance option (which doesn’t need a login) or use a disposable lemmy.ml account or something

what I want to know is: does anyone use this thing, and does anyone want it here? if there’s demand for it, I can spin up a secure copy of it for our instance under an alternate path. for me it’s a bit of a hard sell due to its resemblance to the reddit redesign, but lemmy’s UI is decoupled enough from its backend that running this thing shouldn’t impact much

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/127802

I think Photon is the first third party client to implement the modlog.

You can access it from the site about sidebar/window, like the normal lemmy-ui. Or just go to /modlog.

It has feature parity with the lemmy-ui modlog.

Crossposts were also added recently.

Also fixed the infamous profile page switching issue.

I think Photon is the first third party client to implement the modlog.

You can access it from the site about sidebar/window, like the normal lemmy-ui. Or just go to /modlog.

It has feature parity with the lemmy-ui modlog.

Crossposts were also added recently.

Also fixed the infamous profile page switching issue.

You can now re-order profiles from the accounts page. Click the profile icon to change the color.

Since v0.9.8, here's what was added:

• As mentioned, Profile re-ordering and re-coloring
• Mark individual posts as read
• Click your active account to switch to guest.
• A lot of UI tweaks for consistency

Thanks for all the support of Photon!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/90556

Haven't done one of these for a while, so I'll list the changes from 0.5.2 to 0.7 (skipping hotfixes):

(Major changes will be in bold)

0.7

• Better profile page, can modify account settings and view your blocked stuff
• Hotkey to post comments, Ctrl + enter
• Use a better placeholder for loading images
• fix hiding read posts, use lemmy itself instead

0.6.3/0.6.4

• Better load times
• Admin: Add post/comment purging
• Add default comment sorts

0.6.1

• UI polish
• Add option to mark individual inbox items as read

0.6.0

• improve menus when logged out, fix double login

0.5.9

• Moderation: Reply to submissions about why they were removed

0.5.6 to 0.5.7

• Add manual theme switcher
• Add display name support

0.5.4 to 0.5.5

• Add keyboard shortcuts to markdown editor
• Admin: more site config options
• fix delete data option for bans
• add hide read posts option
• UI polish

0.5.2 to 0.5.3

• Add more placeholders for forms
• More helpful error messages
• When going to the post page, autofill community input with last viewed community

Feature parity with the official lemmy ui by 1.0!

Administration tools are here! You can:

• Edit site configuration
• View registration applications
• Edit taglines
• Ban users

Report issues on the Github

Photon now has a better desktop UI!

Photon is an alternative web UI for lemmy with a sleek design.)

When I initially made Photon, it was meant to be an alternative to lemmy-ui, meant for both desktop and mobile.

A lot of people were complaining that it was too small and said it only made sense for mobile, which looking back was correct at the time (taken from old github readme):

Well, I'm happy to report that the desktop UI takes a lot more advantage of the screen space now.

You can:

• Quickly switch accounts from the sidebar
• Hop to the communities you're moderating
• Look through your subscribed communities
• Resize the sidebar to your liking
• and more!

(You may have to wait a few hours before this domain works)

Photon is now accessible from phtn.app instead of the horrible photon.xylight.dev!

I plan on using this domain to death from now on