overview for Xylight

The app will essentially be the same thing, with a different library. I don't think there's a need to keep an old branch since I'm just migrating the app, not rewriting.

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Svelte 5 migration (self.photon)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Xylight to c/photon

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Approximately 70% complete

Photon uses Svelte.js as the main JS framework for the UI. Photon uses Svelte 4 currently, but Svelte 5 was released and has a lot of benefits for the codebase. It's also a lot faster.

However, the paradigm for Svelte 5 is a lot different and almost the entirety of Photon might have to be rewritten.

Luckily, there's a migration tool that can do a lot of the work for me. However, I've still got to fix about 3,000 lines of code and 70 different files to work properly with Svelte 5. There's also gonna be a lot of hidden bugs I'll need to fix.

Because of this, I won't work on any new features for the next month or so, so that I can get this as done as fast as possible.

Generally you won't notice much other than slight behavior changes due to minor code structure changes, or maybe a bug or two.

Once I'm finished, I'll make another announcement and you might notice photon feeling a bit faster!

Once it's been confirmed stable I'll release docker images.

You can see my progress here

Other notes

Browser support drops

Very old browsers probably might break. I'm talking Internet Explorer (although I'm pretty sure that was already broken. I don't care if Photon doesn't work on IE.)

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[Theme] Pumpkin theme for Photon (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 months ago by Xylight to c/photon

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I usually don't like orange/brown themes but I think this one's cozy. I decided to make it for the autumn season.

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To import, go to Main menu > Themes > Click the + to make a new theme > Import > Paste and import

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sitting down calmly after 10 minutes of zoomies (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Xylight to c/dogs@lemmy.world

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3 years old!

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cozy cat (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Xylight to c/cat@lemmy.world

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hes my silly mainecoon

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[OC] cozy cat (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 months ago by Xylight to c/pics@lemmy.world

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Been posting a lot here, hope the mods don't mind

This is my 4 year old Mainecoon cat :>

Taken on Pixel 8

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[OC] Golden hour waves (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 months ago by Xylight to c/pics@lemmy.world

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I took this in September 2022 on a Pixel 6 at 7:00pm, in Newport, Oregon.

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[OC] A photo of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 months ago by Xylight to c/pics@lemmy.world

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Taken on my phone so nothing special. Thought it looked cool!

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[2024/8/10] Photon roadmap (self.photon)

submitted 3 months ago by Xylight to c/photon

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I used to ask these a lot during Photon's early development, but I decided to do one now.

Are there any major features you'd like added or issues you'd want fixed?

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[Theme] Emerald theme for Photon (lemdro.id)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Xylight to c/photon

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Saw people on slrpnk.net were looking for a photon theme so I decided to make one. I'm not necessarily expecting this to be used at slrpnk.net, but I like the theme so I'll be using it. It has a nice light theme too.

It's pretty similar to a recent post for a "wintergreen" theme, this one is less saturated.

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Photon survey 2024 (forms.gle)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Xylight to c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world

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Even if you don't use Photon and have only heard of it, your answers can be useful for some questions!

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/13579151

I'd like to learn about the community that uses Photon, so I've decided to make a survey! You can answer it if you like. In about a week I'll collect the responses and see if anything's interesting, and then I'll make a post showing any discoveries.

The survey just has a few questions about demographics, Lemmy usage, and knowledge of Photon's features.

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Photon survey 2024 (forms.gle)

submitted 4 months ago by Xylight to c/photon

3 comments fedilink

I'd like to learn about the community that uses Photon, so I've decided to make a survey! You can answer it if you like. In about a week I'll collect the responses and see if anything's interesting, and then I'll make a post showing any discoveries.

The survey just has a few questions about demographics, Lemmy usage, and knowledge of Photon's features.

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Need suggestions, potential security issue? (self.photon)

submitted 4 months ago by Xylight to c/photon

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this security issue can only be triggered by users fault, but it's up to the UI designer to prevent user mistakes causing potential credential leaks.

The login page

The login page is designed to be as simple as possible. Only 1 page, no extra steps. It'll validate whatever instance url you type in to ensure it's actually a Lemmy instance.

The problem

If the user mistypes the instance url to a typo squatting instance, your credentials were just sent straight to them. Bad. For example, I could setup an instance named lemmu.world, and if someone accidentally mistypes lemmy.world as that, I get their credentials for free.

Potential solutions

I'm not sure which one would be best as they all have problems.

Require you to type the instance before you can start typing your credentials.
- This complicates things and adds an extra step. This also wouldn't completely solve the problem.
Add an auto complete list
- This will work for popular instances as they'll know that they have the wrong url because it disappeared from the auto complete. However, I'd need to keep this list updated and id prefer photon to have minimal external ties. This also wouldn't work for small instances.
Add typo checking
- This has the same problem as above as I'd need to keep common misspellings updated and I want photon to have minimal external ties.

Any ideas? For now, this isn't a problem as long as you double check the instance you're logging in with, and there's no cases of this AFAIK.