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cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/33702937

This app is a small jewel:

• offline translation thanks to firefox translation engine
• OCR on images with tessercat
• overlay of translated text on the original image -> awesome!

It's still a young app, but it's really important to go towards de-googling!

Source code: https://github.com/DavidVentura/firefox-translator

a lot of design changes, not many new features

What's Changed

• impr: prefetch data from cached post feeds to display post pages instantly
• impr: sync post page changes to post feed
• impr: load initial post feed asynchronously to make sure people don't blame photon for the fact that the instance takes 81293578235792385 years to load the post feed
• fix: use /user endpoint for getting saved posts
• feat: improve image attachment prompt, allow inserting URL
• design: improve error containers & toasts
• design: allocate a bit more space for sidebars
• design: use secondary style buttons for post actions
• design: use a common list component
• design: make tab bars not look like actual human excrement
• design: better post consistency
• design: make menus 34.177825% more compact
• design: re-add description text to placeholders and also make them not look like actual human excrement
• design: move most community data to sidebar on desktop
• design: increase comment size on adequately sized screens to improve readability
• design: make pageination component not look like actual human excrement
• design: increase line height for markdown to improve readability
• design: make instances/federation page not boil your CPU and also make it not look like human excrement
• design: delay progress bar animation so that people think that the app is blazingly fast 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
• design: make sidebars not look like actual human excrement
• design: make settings page not look like actual human excrement
• fix: improve tab bar selected route detection
• i18n: remove flags from language names so my house doesn't get nuked from orbit for using a controversial or incorrect flag
• impr: switch menus to use Svelte attachment based event handling instead of a horrible, cursed, terrible, inaccessible, awful looking, web design violating, unreactive, garbage div wrapper
• impr: use a basic feature of every component library (components) for Fixate instead of duplicating the same thing 80x
• aria: improve semantics significantly for SEO and accessibility
• misc: add a default robots.txt
• impr: use a and for comment expansion so that it's actually CSS based and native instead of some javascript atrocity
• fix: context for comment links is wayy too tiny

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v2.0.1...v2.0.2

Piefed support next release!

There are lots of good FOSS options.

I would strongly recommend checking this site for the trackers in an app if you're at all concerned about privacy. Links to each app's exodus privacy report is also at the end of the table linked above.

FYI, Nova has been owned by a data mining company for many years and it is worth moving away from even if you think it is good enough now and doesn't need updates.

Hi, first of all thank you for all the work you put into photon! I really love the interface and have been using it for many months now.

Today, I noticed that the Favorites folder disappeared, and I was wondering if this was intentional or a bug.

For what it's worth, I will mention that personally, I am a huge fan of ways that help customise our feed - consequently, I loved this folder.

No matter what, thank you for all the work on beautiful photon!

I learnt about markdown from reddit and got to know more suff like ![img]() after joining Lemmy. Found Markor from a thread here or there.
Recently learnt about some features:

• Snippets/templates and controlling how and where the text entered should be:

  https://github.com/gsantner/markor/discussions/2221

• Creating charts and pie diagrams

  https://github.com/gsantner/markor/blob/master/NEWS.md#user-content-charts--graphs--diagrams-mermaidjs

• Katex for math

  https://github.com/gsantner/markor/blob/master/NEWS.md#user-content-settings

And a cool thing is that it supports rendering .html files(considering how Firefox doesn't show up in the list of apps capable of opening them). Was trying out Javascript bookmarklets and created an html file(with the js code in it) to make edits and try out stuff.

Making this post so that others can know of these features. I had Markor installed for more than a year, before I recently read their news.md and noticed these features.

Do you know of any other features or apps that'd be useful for more people to know of?

OC text by @Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org

This was posted by Kevin Barry, the original developer and founder of Nova Launcher.

So long and thanks for all the fish