Happy to announce we’ve finally setup some alternative frontends.

Photon might be flaky, we’re on a release candidate because of issue I was running into using it in Firefox. It’s also what I’m using to write this. If you notice any issues, feel free to let us know.

    • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Nothing related to deployment, but I’ve noticed photon doesn’t let you escape markdown like other clients do.

      E.g. This:

      \>watches french thing  
\>gets mad when it's subversive and weird  
???

      Get’s displayed like this in photon:

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          While I have you on markdown, this:

          > test
          >
          > test

          Is currently displaying like a line break with no extra space between the two, rather than as two different paragraphs.

          Other than that - great work. It’s clearly the biggest hit of the frontends that we’ve added.

        • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Absolutely get that, I’ve been doing some stuff with markdown lately and I didn’t realise I could hate a file format so much. Best of luck, friend.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
    5·
    3 months ago

    Ooo Photon looks nice. Do you have any troubles using these as a PWA (Progressive Web App)?

    And it has full search!

  • Streamwave@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Yay. Photon is by far the best imo

    Also strongly recommend Photon users change the theme to Catppuccin, it’s such a lovely colour scheme

      • Streamwave@feddit.ukEnglish
        21·
        3 months ago

        Click on your username/avatar at the top right, then Theme, then just click on Catppuccino

            • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
              3·
              3 months ago

              It scrolls! Dammit. The scrolling on Photon is a bit of a PitA when trying to make longer posts and it looks like it has caught me out here too.

              • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukOPEnglish
                2·
                3 months ago

                Yeah, the text box getting its own scroll window instead of expanding is annoying. It can be expanded, but I imagine that’s a pain to do on mobile.

                • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukOPEnglish
                  3·
                  3 months ago

                  For anyone else annoyed by this, I’ve created a userscipt to auto expand the textarea. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than nothing.

                  // ==UserScript==
// @name        Autoexpand textarea
// @namespace   Violentmonkey Scripts
// @match       https://p.feddit.uk/*
// @grant       none
// @version     1.0
// @author      flamingos-cant
// @description 06/08/2024, 21:05:31
// ==/UserScript==

function updateHeight(textarea) {
  var text = textarea.target.value;
  var lineHeight = 1.25 * parseFloat(getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).fontSize);
  var taHeight = textarea.target.scrollHeight - 16 * 2;
  var lines = Math.max(Math.ceil(taHeight / lineHeight), 8);
  textarea.target.rows = lines;
}

setInterval((function () {
  let textareas = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea");
  for (let textarea of textareas) {
    textarea.addEventListener("input", updateHeight);
  }
}), 2000);
                • Xylight (Photon Dev)@lemm.ee
                  3·
                  3 months ago

                  @Emperor@feddit.uk I’ll update photon soon to increase the size of the text box as you type.

                  I’ll also tweak parts of the UI to make nested scrolling places more obvious. You can always mention me about this stuff, I want to keep this UI intuitive!

          • Streamwave@feddit.ukEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            Oh, that’s interesting. Another user has said in reply to my comment they have the option too. I’m using Brave Browser but I don’t have Stylish or anything installed

  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Having tried many of the alternative front ends, Photon is definitely my favourite when accessing Lemmy on my PC/laptop. I shall change my bookmark forthwith! 😄

    • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Yer, it was the best to me too. I want to see a good chunk of the list, so I don’t like the picture being very big. I like your no pictures interface link, I’ll try it. Thanks. 😃

      • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
        1·
        3 months ago

        Cheers, I’ll give it a go when I’m next on desktop. Doesn’t sound very intuitive though. Other than that I’m quite enjoying it.

          • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
            2·
            3 months ago

            I think it just needs a little + / - button (or some visual representation) to show the comment can be collapsed, I didn’t expect the deadspace to be clickable.

            Unreleated, but I’ve also noticed that sometimes I can’t log in using Photon until I’ve logged in using the “default” web UI, and then coming back to Photon and refreshing fixes it.

            • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukOPEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              Unreleated, but I’ve also noticed that sometimes I can’t log in using Photon until I’ve logged in using the “default” web UI, and then coming back to Photon and refreshing fixes it.

              This is probably due to some server instability we’ve had lately. We’ve resolved it, so hopefully it shouldn’t happen again.

  • florge@feddit.uk
    1·
    1 month ago

    Just a small thing. When you go to login on the alexandrite frontend, the instance is autofilled with lemmy.world, instead of feddit.uk.