Xylight

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[–] Xylight 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jokes aside, I'm excited to see where this project goes.

[–] Xylight 2 points 1 day ago

Generally a result of decentralization is that subjectively bad instances can arise, but the entire point of decentralization is that they can exist. I don't consider it a weak point.

[–] Xylight 2 points 1 day ago

Part of Gen Z and almost all the people my age I know are heavily conservative. It's pretty isolating.

[–] Xylight 5 points 6 days ago

If I unironically monetize photon in any other way than donations, shoot me.

[–] Xylight 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i added that tier after you sent this to me

[–] Xylight 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the cat and their invaders are taking over Photon. i will fight back.

[–] Xylight 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Photon Premium™️ members will receive more incredible revolutionary unprecedented amazing features soon©️ on April 1st

[–] Xylight 2 points 1 week ago

How about no

[–] Xylight 3 points 1 week ago

marking an inbox item as read just does $notifications.inbox--, but the number only updates every 5 minutes, so when you go to an inbox with unread items before it updates, and mark one as read, it does this

i could easily fix it but i always forget right as i open the editor

[–] Xylight 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I did. In the long run it's better for me to write my own since it's easier to update and debug

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

I'm definitely gonna have to write my own virtualizer. I tried using Tanstack Virtual but it definitely has too many issues with my setup to work well.

[–] Xylight 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  1. If Photon hangs on load and the screen never goes away, that means its' crashed or it's taking ages for the server to load the posts. I think it's a rendering error, do you have infinite scroll off? If so, rc5 should have fixed that.
  2. rc5 should fix that. I assume you're not using infinite scroll
  3. I removed them because it complicated settings more, and all the "shortcuts" were available in nearly one click everywhere anyway.
  4. I've seen this issue for a while but it would require some pain to fix, and I consider it low priority

I've been busy and haven't worked on photon for a bit, but i'll make sure to fix all these before merging v2

 

It's been on a separate URL for a while now but it is now on phtn.app.

It hasn't been merged to main yet and has not been put as stable release, but i believe it is stable enough to bring to my URL.

Once the stable release is out, I will write release notes. This is the svelte 5 version.

 

You have become the very thing you swore to destroy

 

So the overall layout won't change, and if you're using default navigation settings, you'll barely notice any difference.

Instances using Photon with SSR have rightfully complained that there's a layout shift between server load and hydration. This happens because the current navbar's position isn't determined by CSS, but by calculations in JavaScript. This is pretty messy and bad.

I rewrote it to be CSS based so that this shift won't happen, and it also simplifies the code quite a lot. However, there's one downside, you won't be able to manually customize the position: the navbar will be a top panel on desktop, and a bottom dock on mobile.

One new feature in this is that on mobile, the bottom dock will hide when you scroll down and re-appear when you scroll up at all. You can disable that in settings.

I consider Photon an opinionated client (of my opinion), but I also want to make sure this isn't a dealbreaker for anyone.

Github Link

Preview URL

 

I use Lemmy for bigger news and all that, but sometimes I like to showcase little things I've done in Photon or tweaked. Maybe even hold polls there.

Should I post mini updates there? Lemmy will still be reserved for the big ones.

@photonlemmy@mas.to

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my dog (part 2) (lemdro.id)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Xylight to c/aww@lemmy.world
 

image may take a bit to load

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Xylight to c/photon
 

The Svelte 5 migration has progressed enough that I think it's safe to release betas now.

Docker tags are released for 2.0.0-beta.2, and you can access the latest beta yourself at https://svelte-5.photon-8na.pages.dev/.

I've made a few UX changes to match the new codebase, I hope that this release is good for you.

Please let me know of any major issues.

Issues I've noticed (I will fix as soon as I am available:

  • Post mutations don't save when you navigate, when you go back, they are reverted.
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Svelte 5 migration (self.photon)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Xylight to c/photon
 

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.)

 

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

{"slate":{"25":"255 248 240","50":"253 244 232","100":"251 236 221","200":"246 220 198","300":"240 195 165","400":"219 162 122","500":"196 133 89","600":"133 108 89","700":"89 72 59","800":"66 54 44","900":"44 36 29","950":"33 27 22"},"zinc":{"50":"255 243 230","100":"250 228 207","300":"227 186 156","400":"204 144 105","500":"181 102 54","600":"120 96 79","700":"82 66 54","800":"61 49 40","900":"41 33 27","925":"33 26 22","950":"25 20 16"},"primary":{"100":"255 245 235","900":"122 48 0"},"other":{"black":"25 20 16","white":"255 252 248"}}

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

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Xylight to c/dogs@lemmy.world
 

3 years old!

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cozy cat (lemdro.id)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Xylight to c/cat@lemmy.world
 

hes my silly mainecoon

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[OC] cozy cat (lemdro.id)
submitted 5 months ago by Xylight to c/pics@lemmy.world
 

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

This is my 4 year old Mainecoon cat :>

Taken on Pixel 8

 

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

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