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.

Haven't done one of these for a while, so I'll list the changes from 0.5.2 to 0.6.5 (skipping hotfixes):

(Major changes will be in bold)

0.6.3/0.6.4

• Better load times
• Admin: Add post/comment purging
• Add default comment sorts

0.6.1

• UI polish
• Add option to mark individual inbox items as read

0.6.0

• improve menus when logged out, fix double login

0.5.9

• Moderation: Reply to submissions about why they were removed

0.5.6 to 0.5.7

• Add manual theme switcher
• Add display name support

0.5.4 to 0.5.5

• Add keyboard shortcuts to markdown editor
• Admin: more site config options
• fix delete data option for bans
• add hide read posts option
• UI polish

0.5.2 to 0.5.3

• Add more placeholders for forms
• More helpful error messages
• When going to the post page, autofill community input with last viewed community

If you're worried development slowed down, don't worry. I'm just a lot more busy now and all of your donations have motivated me a lot ❤️

Feature parity with lemmy-ui by 1.0

It would be for more than just photon, a serious longtime instance. with the $400 dollars i was donated (wtf) i can more than afford this.

Would you want one?

I thought "hey I'll make $20 and pay off the new domain" $405?!?!!

Thanks so so so so much to:

• Rooki of lemmy.world ($300 wtf man)
• MrCenny of lemmy.world ($15 holy)
• "Someone" ($30)
• Flip ($15)
• Antik of lemmy.world ($15)
• "Someone"? ($15)
• pnutzh4xor (major contributor) ($15)
• iJeff of lemdro.id ($15)
• ohmyiv ($15)
• Cole of lemdro.id ($9)
• thekingoflorida ($9)
• Xusontha ($6)
• Quinten ($3)
• another "someone" ($3)

I am still processing this, I am going insane thank you so so much

Can we have an option to adjust the font size? I'm on Brave Android PWA to be precise. I like to keep it as big as the Voyager App has in the screenshot

A lot of people were asking for this, so here we are:

buymeacoffee.com/xylight

Don't feel obligated to donate, bug reports on GitHub are helpful enough :)

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You can now comment the reason why a submission was removed easily!

There's randomized placeholders in a few places!

If you have any ideas, feel free to drop them here. I'll probably add them.

The title says it - any way to support your work via a donation? Either way: Thanks a bunch, your frontend is amazing and makes using Lemmy so. much. fun.

Is it possible to hide posts marked as seen instead of just fading the title?

Administration tools are here! You can:

• Edit site configuration
• View registration applications
• Edit taglines
• Ban users

Report issues on the Github

Photon is a web UI for Lemmy with a sleek design.

Photon v0.4.35

• There's now a markdown toolbar, and you can put images in it!
  • From now on, all updates will have screenshots associated with the posts.

• There's more sorting options!
  • A common complaint was that there weren't all the available sorting options. They weren't there because I couldn't find a way to make them look good. Then I realized, why not just use a dropdown?

Thanks for all the support with Photon! You can report any bugs or request features on the GitHub.

Photon looks like shit on mobile, basically Walmart Sync. These are the only things I can think of:

• Use a better font instead of system font (Cantarell)
• Move sort options up into the navbar

(You may have to wait a few hours before this domain works)

Photon is now accessible from phtn.app instead of the horrible photon.xylight.dev!

I plan on using this domain to death from now on

This instance doesn't actually exist yet. I was wondering if I should make my own public instance with the domain lemmy.tips.

Currently this is hosted on lemmy.xylight.dev which is a horrible name.

Or should I instead buy the phtn.app domain for Photon instead of hosting a new instance? Money is tight, I can only pick one.

You can now have multiple accounts at once!

Click the main menu (on the circle on the top right), and hit "switch accounts" (it'll say "Login" if you have no accounts). You'll be able to add accounts and switch between them on the sidebar or through that page.

I've implemented most of the requested features in the previous roadmap post.

I'm also working with the lemmy.world admins to get photon hosted there 👀

I made this post to ask, what do you want to see in photon now?

• New desktop layout: a sidebar with your subscribed communities!
  • The option to span full width was removed, as it is now the default.
    • To make it look not like garbage, a community sidebar was added.
• Fix big(-ish) issue #48
• Fix more layout issues
• Add about page
• Use closest size for avatars to improve network usage

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v0.4.9...v0.4.10

Update: Removed in v0.4.10, on by default (but better.)

Admin tools are coming in v0.5.0!

For all the people who complained about the content not spanning the whole page, there's now an option just for you.

I still don't see why you'd want this as it looks horrible, but whatever.

I've removed SSR in v0.4.7, so you should no longer see a flash between a different instance and your current instance.

You can now install Photon as a PWA. (Doesn't work on Firefox)

Click the three dots on mobile, and hit "install as app". On desktop, there will be a little install prompt in your url bar.

Let me know if any issues or features you want.

Branch:

https://photon-2ttkqzv4k-xylight.vercel.app/

Update: thanks for your responses! 2 is what we're choosing.

I could localize Photon as I have experience with a good localization library, and since the project is decently active I could get a few translators.

It would take away from working on other features though. Put your vote in the comments:

• 1: Work on localization
• 2: Focus on other features for now, but localize once stable
• 3: I want features as fast as possible, don't localize for a while.

Photon is a sleek web UI for Lemmy.

This release brings basic moderation tools to Photon, as well as a bunch of quality-of-life tweaks.

Features

• Add moderation tools by @Xyphyn in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/33
  • Add post submission removal
  • Add comment submission removal
  • Add report viewing and resolving
  • Add thread locking
  • Add post pinning/unpinning
• Add initiating message conversations
• Add better pagination to lots of pages
• Add sorting to user pages
• Add user blocking

Fixes

• fix: allow long usernames to wrap by @pbui in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/32
• misc: lots of optimizations
• fix: fix post dialog size

Administration tools will come in v0.5.0.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v0.3.4...v0.4.0

This beta branch might be buggy, although you should be fine.

Moderation tools are confirmed for Photon! Try the beta branch out here.

Github PR

Finished!

• ✔️ Add post removing/restoring
• ✔️ Add comment removing/restoring
• ✔️ Add report viewing/acting
• ✔️ Lock posts
• ✔️ Pin posts

I'm going to hold off on implementing user banning as i want to make it as efficient as possible.