overview for Xylight

Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I mean that's why it's "mildly infuriating", it doesn't enrage me as much as Twitter requiring a sign in for the whole site.

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Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post (lemdro.id)

submitted 6 days ago by Xylight@lemdro.id to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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You have become the very thing you swore to destroy

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Asking for community input before messing with the navbar again (lemdro.id)

submitted 6 days ago by Xylight@lemdro.id to c/photon@lemdro.id

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

Instances using Photon with SSR have rightfully complained that there's a layout shift between server load and hydration. This happens because the current navbar's position isn't determined by CSS, but by calculations in JavaScript. This is pretty messy and bad.

I rewrote it to be CSS based so that this shift won't happen, and it also simplifies the code quite a lot. However, there's one downside, you won't be able to manually customize the position: the navbar will be a top panel on desktop, and a bottom dock on mobile.

One new feature in this is that on mobile, the bottom dock will hide when you scroll down and re-appear when you scroll up at all. You can disable that in settings.

I consider Photon an opinionated client (of my opinion), but I also want to make sure this isn't a dealbreaker for anyone.

Github Link

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The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 6 points 6 days ago

I removed it because I don't want my app to necessarily depend or be associated with any specific centralized external source, like MBFC. By adding it to my app, I'm implicitly supporting its use, which wasn't necessarily my goal.

Optimal Lemmy instance to recommend in c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't think presence of alternative UIs is a good reason to not recommend an instance. Voyager, alexandrite, and Photon, all have independent web apps (vger.app, alexandrite.app, phtn.app, respectively)

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Should I post frequent updates on Mastodon? (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 week ago by Xylight@lemdro.id to c/photon@lemdro.id

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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.

Should I post mini updates there? Lemmy will still be reserved for the big ones.

@photonlemmy@mas.to

Ask my guinea pig anything, and I will let her crawl on the keyboard to answer. in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 1 week ago

Pretty much sums up my life

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my dog (part 2) (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Xylight@lemdro.id to c/aww@lemmy.world

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Ask my guinea pig anything, and I will let her crawl on the keyboard to answer. in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I need an inspirational title for my autobiography

Photon 2.0.0 betas are out in c/photon@lemdro.id

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Can't reproduce, is this on desktop or mobile?

I guess this is why it's a beta and not a full release.

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Photon 2.0.0 betas are out (lemdro.id)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Xylight@lemdro.id to c/photon@lemdro.id

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

Docker tags are released for 2.0.0-beta.2, and you can access the latest beta yourself at https://svelte-5.photon-8na.pages.dev/.

I've made a few UX changes to match the new codebase, I hope that this release is good for you.

Please let me know of any major issues.

Issues I've noticed (I will fix as soon as I am available:

Post mutations don't save when you navigate, when you go back, they are reverted.

Svelte 5 migration in c/photon@lemdro.id

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 1 points 2 weeks ago

I meant resumed

[2024/8/10] Photon roadmap in c/photon@lemdro.id

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Svelte 5 migration (lemdro.id)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Xylight@lemdro.id to c/photon@lemdro.id

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Approximately 70% complete

Photon uses Svelte.js as the main JS framework for the UI. Photon uses Svelte 4 currently, but Svelte 5 was released and has a lot of benefits for the codebase. It's also a lot faster.

However, the paradigm for Svelte 5 is a lot different and almost the entirety of Photon might have to be rewritten.

Luckily, there's a migration tool that can do a lot of the work for me. However, I've still got to fix about 3,000 lines of code and 70 different files to work properly with Svelte 5. There's also gonna be a lot of hidden bugs I'll need to fix.

Because of this, I won't work on any new features for the next month or so, so that I can get this as done as fast as possible.

Generally you won't notice much other than slight behavior changes due to minor code structure changes, or maybe a bug or two.

Once I'm finished, I'll make another announcement and you might notice photon feeling a bit faster!

Once it's been confirmed stable I'll release docker images.

You can see my progress here

Other notes

Browser support drops

Very old browsers probably might break. I'm talking Internet Explorer (although I'm pretty sure that was already broken. I don't care if Photon doesn't work on IE.)

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[Theme] Pumpkin theme for Photon (lemdro.id)

submitted 4 months ago by Xylight@lemdro.id to c/photon@lemdro.id

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I usually don't like orange/brown themes but I think this one's cozy. I decided to make it for the autumn season.

{"slate":{"25":"255 248 240","50":"253 244 232","100":"251 236 221","200":"246 220 198","300":"240 195 165","400":"219 162 122","500":"196 133 89","600":"133 108 89","700":"89 72 59","800":"66 54 44","900":"44 36 29","950":"33 27 22"},"zinc":{"50":"255 243 230","100":"250 228 207","300":"227 186 156","400":"204 144 105","500":"181 102 54","600":"120 96 79","700":"82 66 54","800":"61 49 40","900":"41 33 27","925":"33 26 22","950":"25 20 16"},"primary":{"100":"255 245 235","900":"122 48 0"},"other":{"black":"25 20 16","white":"255 252 248"}}

To import, go to Main menu > Themes > Click the + to make a new theme > Import > Paste and import