It makes it easier to prioritize what I work on if I know someone’s wanting a feature. What sort of stuff do you wish Alexandrite had? Especially talking about missing features from the main UI.
If you can, please provide some explanation for why you would like that feature and what problem it would solve for you (unless of course it’s a feature that Lemmy has already but Alexandrite doesn’t support yet). Knowing what problem you want solved helps me work with you to brainstorm ideas for the best solution (see the XY problem).
I would love a way to have the main post images be larger so I don’t have to click to expand from the thumbnail for every single image; something more akin to the mobile applications.
Additionally, I’m not sure if it just hasn’t been implemented yet but the color changer in the settings doesn’t work for me :) I’m browsing on firefox, FYI.
Yep, I planned on overhauling how I handle images so you can just click them and it’ll show full size in an overlay like on chat apps like Discord. Is that what you’re looking for?
Do you happen to have the Dark Reader extension? I’ve noticed with Dark Reader enabled that happens!
No I’m looking for an app that has the images already pre expanded to a visible size, much like on mobile you (on most apps by default) don’t need to click the thumbnail to view the image; it’s already automatically at a legible size.
Does that make sense?
Gotcha. On each row in the list there’s a little “show content” button that shows the attached image/post body/link preview stuff right there, would a setting that defaults that to open automatically be what you want, or would you prefer if it only auto-shows attached images?
I think auto showing images, and maybe if it’s a text post a preview of the body, or like embedded images for links and stuff. A more card based view is what I was looking for! A setting for that would be pretty amazing :) You can take a look at Nemmy’s desktop view to see kind of what I’m talking about. It’s very early in development (and I’m hoping to help with it actually) but it gives a good idea of a type of desktop experience I think is currrently missing
Gotcha, yeah I was planning on doing something like that card layout stuff sometime soon probably. I’ve been working on an alternate feed layout that lets you view a post side-by-side with the feed, and having extra options for how things show in the feed would be nice.
(btw, if you want to try out this column view thing you can view the preview verison, still might have some bugs, and the defaults right now probably squishes things unless you have a high resolution screen but if you close the sidebar it should look nice at 1080p, also you have to go to the settings page to change your page layout to “Columns”, accessible from the user button in the top right).
That looks great and I love that idea! Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
By the way I found and fixed some bugs with the theme stuff so hopefully it works all the time now! Not sure if it was Dark Reader causing the color change issues for you or that other bug, but it should work now!
The bug was that occasionally things would load in a different order and your chosen color would apply too early and wouldn’t actually override the site’s theme. I could really only get it to happen occasionally and by completely clearing localStorage and signing in again, so it was a little difficult to track down.
FYI if you didn’t see it already, I released that column view update and a bunch of other stuff. Announcement post.