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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The entire point of a captcha is to stop bots, so a Turnstile verification stopping bots would qualify

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is false. On Lemmy, upvotes and downvotes are the backbone behind the Hot and Top feeds.

The only ones where it doesn't matter as much are in Active, which is based on comments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wonder if Cloudflare Turnstile is any better

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FYI: phtn.app is the official instance and is probably faster than photon.lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's not a table that's a ta

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

(This isn't my opinion, just saying what I think they are)

They are saying it's not intelligent in any way though. It sees a bunch of words as numbers and spits out some new numbers that the prediction algorithm creates.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

A centralized, proprietary alternative to Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Photon dev here! The official website for it is phtn.app

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that's like calling having hair being the absence of baldness

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that not just the explore page? (Globe icon)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

every browser allows this

+ublock origin would let you do this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just added in v0.7.1

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What next? (lemmy.xylight.dev)
 

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

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Photon v0.4.9: new option! (lemmy.xylight.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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.

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A PWA was added! (lemmy.xylight.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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.
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Photon is a sleek web UI for Lemmy.

I was told by an admin I could post updates to Photon here, despite it being a web client?

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
  • Add federation links

Fixes

Administration tools will come in v0.5.0.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v0.3.3...v0.4.0

Github

Official app instance

Community: [email protected]

 

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

Administration tools will come in v0.5.0.

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

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[Beta branch] Moderation tools (photon-git-moderation-xylight.vercel.app)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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.

 

I was thinking about buying a domain name for Photon.

photon.app is taken, so what about phtn.app, kinda like vger.app?

Or is photon.xylight.dev fine.

 

I'm working on moderation features, and the modlog will have to be put on hold because er- this is how you retrieve it.

This is before rendering it, which means I'll have to make an individual case for EACH type of log, and i haven't even talked about sorting yet.

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