Why are the sidebar pins gone? That kinda kills the whole user experience for me :(
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
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~~Aw man, you removed docking the top bar... :(~~
It's been great, thank you for your work :D
I've noticed a bug in the application tab, where it is constantly refreshing; it slows down the page and seems unnecessary, so i assume it's unintentional? (didn't happen in the last version)
I feel photon is nearly perfect, but i have some stuff that i may as well put here:
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Moving the applications tab outside "admin". I like how tesseract does it, personally; puts notifications, reports and applications all under the inbox under different colors. Though as long it's more accessible i'm fine with it.
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Template denials, i have to switch between tesseract and photon a lot, because tesseract has this very crucial feature, which is denial templates. Click a button, and deny; as easy as that
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View voters. This is entirely optional, and i can see why you wouldn't want to implement such a small feature, but i use it a lot for checking spam downvoters (strangely, happens more than you think lol)
I think that's it, photon would be pretty much perfect imo with these features. I know you do all of this work for free, and it's great too so i hope i am not sounding pushy; you're not obligated to listen to me at all. but maybe you will find these findings useful?
Navbar customizability was reduced because it caused the navbar to require tons of javascript calculations, rather than being a nice efficient css.
- Id like to redesign the layout of the navbar, but last time I did this people didn't like it. I'll try and experiment more with that.
- I have removal reply templates, so sure, I'll try and add them to application deny templates.
- That'll probably be in the final 2.0 release, again this is not the true release yet
Navbar customizability was reduced because it caused the navbar to require tons of javascript calculations, rather than being a nice efficient css.
That's fair, it's not a dealbreaker so it doesn't matter too much anyway.
The confirmation of those last points tho makes me very excited. Thank you!
Thank you for your work !
Seems cool so far 👍
Quick feedback on an issue I noticed: when you are browsing a thread with a lot of comments and need to press the load more comments link it jumps to the bottom of these newly loaded comments and it can be a bit difficult to find again where you left off.
I think that's an issue in old versions too, mostly due to the virtualizer (for performance). I'll look into it
thanks for all the work! 2.0 is a lot snappier than the previous version, no more weird hangs on my phone.