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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Xylight 5 points 6 months 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 6 months ago

Thanks, will try that now 👍

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 4 points 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago (1 children)

Looks great!

[–] Xylight 3 points 6 months 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 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Xylight 3 points 6 months ago

It'd be nice as an option though

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 1 points 6 months 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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thanks for sharing!

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

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Xylight 2 points 6 months 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 6 months 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