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Photon v1.15.0 comes with Lemmy v0.19.0 support, and is backwards compatible with v0.18.0 instances.

• feat: add v0.19.0 support

• feat: add seasonal logo colors

  • I plan to add some colors on hover depending on the month. Since this month is spooky month, it's an orange to purple gradient!

• design: make search buttons look much better

• misc: fix some signup issues

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.15.0...v1.15.1

I made a Matrix space for Photon, you can join here.

For Discord users, you can also join here.

They are bridged, so it does not matter which platform you use.

Photon now supports viewing YouTube links, in app!

• feat: YouTube embeds
  • in order not to wreck your bandwidth, you must click to view (configurable)
• Feature: allow instance selection on modlog page by @0xCmdrKeen in #199
• feat: fix and re-add crosspost combining
• docker: switch to node-alpine image for faster builds

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.21.0...v1.23.0

sorry for no updates in a while, took a bit of a break

• feat: Combine crossposts in a feed into one post
  • A button will be visible to expand them
• feat: Setting to open posts in new tab
• fix: weird comment editing bug on ctrl + enter
• misc: switch docker image to node-slim
• fix: centering in post pages

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.20.4...v1.21.0

Some selfhosters with PUBLIC_SSR_ENABLED set to true might want the instance url to be different for the server.

I'm assuming that SSR is Server Side Rendering but I'm not sure how that applies to me, a self-hoster. Do I want to turn this on?

Then how does the internal setting play into it?

Thanks :)

Can you make an android app

Try it out at https://photon-git-themes-xylight.vercel.app/settings/theme

coming soon (if i dont give up on this)

you can make cursed abominations like this

• fix: main content is off center by a few pixels
• feat: show community card in the sidebar
  • Found a decent way to do this!
• feat: improve community page performance
  • I removed a few unnecessary requests
• feat: specify admin additions and removals in modlog
• feat: filter by user in modlog
• feat: (for admins) filter by moderator in modlog

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.17.6...v1.18.0

I don't know if this is possible, or maybe there is some reason that the right sidebar only shows the info about lemmy world? I would much prefer to see info from the community i'm visiting, instead of needing to click on the three dots at the top. Speaking about the three dots; in a sidebar with community info, the info to subscribe, create a post or block could be listed there as well. I personally do not really care for those three dots. If that lemmy world bar has to be there for some reason; maybe it can then be shared with community info? That you see the community, but if you scroll down, you still see the lemmy world information?

Btw, don't get me wrong; i really like Photon and it is what i almost always use.

You can now automatically generate a title from a URL! Click the book icon after entering a URL to pull the embed title and body from that webpage!

A lot of changes have been made recently, unfortunately some of my posts weren't federated to other instances correctly :/

That's been fixed now, though.

Anyway, here's the changes:

• fix: failing image uploads
• feat: add embed support
• feat: add support for unproxied image uploads (available in lemmy v0.19.0 instances)

I've seen a few people complain about this (which if you dislike something about an app, make feedback!)

I've been thinking this too, but got used to it. The default tailwind colors are here. Photon, for the site background in dark theme, uses zinc at level 950. 900 is too light, should I change the background color to something in between?

• feat: new, centered layout

  • all of the posts are in the center rather than the center of the right of the screen!
    • If that sounded confusing, that's what I tried to fix :p
  • community things were moved from a sidebar to a ... button

• fix: Lemmy v0.19.0 dates were broken

I'm still wondering what i should put on the right of the layout. Let me know of any ideas!

If you have any suggestions, even minor, let me know in a comment.

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Photon is one of the "hot" apps on lemmyapps.netlify.app! Just thought it was cool and wanted to share

Becoming a member would support this amazing dev. 1$ a month is enough if enough people become a member. Go support this person as much as possible! You are doing gods work Xylight!

It looks like v0.19.0 support will keep photon compatible with v0.18.0. I just need to send both query parameter and a header, so that v0.19.0 will accept the header and v0.18.0 will accept the parameter. I thought v0.19.0 would deny the query parameter, returning an error. Thankfully, the Lemmy devs were sane.