Redesign navigation
- If you dislike the change, go to settings and press "Legacy Navigation Style". This will make the navigation similar to before
- You can see 5 of the most recent posts and communities for quick access.
Use your accent color in more places
- You can change your accent colors in the theme menu.
Improve design consistency
New font option
Change animation curves to be more bouncy
Add option to make featured posts more compact
Remove hooks.server.ts to make requests faster

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.28.4...v1.29.0

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is it possible to set the old navigation style as the default via an ENV parameter?

My first impression is that it doesn't work very well on desktop. Maybe on mobile it is better, but there are many other mobile apps for Lemmy...

Maybe there could be an option to only enable it on small screens?

[–] Xylight 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, you can set the old navigation style as the default.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you please document how (via ENV) in the readme? Thanks!

[–] Xylight 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure. For now, I've added it to the release notes on the Github. Instance admins should set PUBLIC_DOCK_TOP and PUBLIC_DOCK_PANEL to true.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, will try that now 👍

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda dont like the new navigation system. Would be great to have a option to get the old one back, not just to replace it with a similar looking one

[–] Xylight 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please read the post.

If you dislike the change, go to settings and press "Legacy Navigation Style". It is at the top of settings.

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, saw and tried that. The setting only changes the position and size and doesnt revert it to how it looked like pre 1.29 from what ive seen

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah same here, even with the "legacy on" its still different from before and very weird to get used to...

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks great!

[–] Xylight 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tesseract has infinite scroll, it makes me jealous because I can't find a clean way to implement it

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kinda like not having infinite scroll. Makes it less addictive.

[–] Xylight 3 points 1 year ago

It'd be nice as an option though

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 1 points 1 year ago

Lol, thanks. If it's any consolation, implementing that was a huge pain, and I would not do it again if I knew how much of a pain it was going to be.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for sharing!

I find this version better than the previous one, if that may help

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just wanted to say I love photon, only thing wrong with it is that its broken on safari.

[–] Xylight 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tested safari on an iPhone 15 running iOS 17 and could not find any issues. What OS are you on?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

I tested it on an iPad and an iPhone, I believe they were running iOS 16.4 (I say I believe because they're a relatives devices, not mine). The issue was that the page wouldn't end at the bottom, there would be a bunch of empty space you could scroll through