Photon has had a lot of progress made recently. From a new design system to becoming a drop in replacement, changes are made constantly.

This is not everything that has changed, but there’s a lot.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/245558

I’ve added the following:

  • password resets
  • verify email routes
  • option to change password when logged in
  • a warning message when your session expires

Photon can now be used as a default UI with (hopefully) no issue!

However, Photon cannot setup a new instance currently. This only works on instances that have already been setup with lemmy-ui, you can swap it out.

v1.15.0 will add a UI to do this.

instance admins, a docker image and setup instructions are available here. It is recommended you set the PUBLIC_SSR_ENABLED env var to true to let search engines crawl the site.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/237690

Lots of updates were pushed today, here’s the changes since v1.10.3:

v1.12.0

  • feat: multiple removal reply presets
    • you can now have multiple presets for removal replies/messages.

v1.11.2

  • feat: add voting animations
  • misc: add warning toast when trying to vote while not logged in

v1.11.1

  • feat: add a route indicator in the top left

v1.11.0

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/233948

Yet another view type has been added: cozy

It is essentially just the card view, but without a background. I quite like it.

  • feat: made images slightly more round
  • feat: add lemmy version to site card
  • upgrade: mono-ui: 0.3.3 -> 0.3.5
  • feat: copy community id to clipboard when clicked
  • feat: only show comment form when you click “create comment”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/203455

I’ve tweaked the colors for light theme quite a lot. I think they look nice. It means I can make the background of buttons white, giving a clear separation.

  • Tweak light theme colors
  • Overhaul community page
  • Add Inter font
    • I kept the default as System UI. You can enable Inter from the settings.
  • Upgrade to Mono v0.3.2

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.xylight.dev/post/176453

What’s new:

  • feat: Add ability to manage federated instances
    • You can even upload a CSV!
  • feat: Add markdown to post titles
    • Since this is a rare occurrence i didn’t turn the title input into a markdown editor.
  • feat: Use notification date instead of submission date for inbox
  • feat: Expand images on click
    • I’ve made this an option since some people might dislike it.

Other stuff I haven’t mentioned from previous updates:

  • fix: Subscribed text being cut off
  • change some wording
  • Add a back button and reload comments button to post pages
  • Add error handling to RelativeDate

Thanks for all your support on Photon! I’m still working on localization.