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

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.

  • porkchop
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    1 year ago

    Saved to my home screen. Love the work you’ve done! The design system is super clean and the icon is rad as hell. Native app one day or na?

    • Xylight (Photon dev)@lemmy.xylight.devOP
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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately I don’t have much experience in native app development. If I did want to make a native android app, I’d use native components and my app would look like Sync.

      I could upload it to the play store though. Also adding it to your home screen should install it as a PWA!