I am still around, but I’ve always been a lurker. Just saw the notification so I’m a couple days late. I do see mentions!

If it works like blocking works for users/communities, posts from blocked instances shouldn’t show up in Alexandrite too.

Yep, this is a bug I’m aware of, for what it’s worth there’s also an issue on Github someone reported this in. You can track it here.

Yep, I would like to do that at some point, just haven’t been working on Alexandrite all that much lately, but it’s still on my todo list!

Or find and replace all the periods with ones that are slightly larger font.

Ooo I like that idea!

Card view has been out for quite a while! There’s a little dropdown in the top right of the feed that lets you switch, otherwise you can find it in the settings as “Feed Post Layout”.

Actually it sounds like it might be possible to keep things backwards compatible so I’ll attempt to make it work for both versions. The 0.19 announcement post mentions it should be possible to stay backwards compatible.

Oops forgot to post links, I edited the post.

I host Alexandrite at https://alexandrite.app/ and several instances also host Alexandrite on their own domains, like https://a.lemmy.world

Yes, launching the game launches Ubisoft’s launcher and you have to sign into that to play.

Also if you use Proton it doesn’t auto close the launcher when you quit the game so it’ll run up your play time while the launcher is minimized to the system tray.

This is intentional, but I’ll probably be changing it.

When you click a post while in a feed it changes the URL so it’s easier for people to share links to posts, as people probably are most used to copying a URL out of the address bar to send to people. It causes a lot of issues though, like the one you mentioned, and the ‘back’ button on your browser basically doesn’t work either. Because of all of that I’m probably going to remove that feature, and make a more prominent “share” button somewhere.

I’ll probably end up waiting until one of the popular instances migrates to 0.19, then I’ll quickly work on migrating to 0.19 and release a new version. The main alexandrite.app site will use the 0.19 version once lemmy.world updates, because that’s its default instance. Exact specifics might change depending on how the rollout goes and how much free time I have around then, so this might change. If Alexandrite updates before your server updates you might just have to use the default UI until your instance updates.

For self-hosters who want to wait on 0.19, Alexandrite’s releases have version numbers nowdays so instead of using the latest docker tag, I’d recommend using the last non-0.19 version until you upgrade Lemmy.

The PR says “Analogous to the existing community block functionality, users can also block instances. This means that all content from communities which are hosted there is hidden. Posts from users of blocked instances are still visible in other places.” So it sounds like what you’re looking for.

It should be coming soon, support for it is almost in Lemmy, once that’s released and servers are updated so I can test it I’ll add it ASAP! This is the Lemmy PR I’m waiting on.

You can link to communities/users by typing the full name/instance stuff out, but I don’t have any search/auto-complete stuff for either of those yet.

There is a lemmy setting to hide read posts fwiw, but it’s probably not exactly what you’re looking for. I’ve been thinking of making a toggle for it more accessible from the feed, but a lemmy feature to hide individual posts like you could on reddit would be nicest.

I’ve been considering something similar to that too, I’ll give it some more thought. Might end up switching those textboxes around. Also when I someday am able to add image uploading I might need to move things around anyway so anything here could change lol

Sweet, thanks for letting me know! This is definitely the kind of bug I like getting fixed ASAP!

Could you give me a little more detail on what problem this solves for you? I’m not opposed to the idea, just want to understand more. What’s inconvenient about the way it works now, and how would you use the site differently if this feature was added?

I went back and forth on this and I’m not sure what’s best. I think I’d prefer doing it automatically, but I also didn’t want stuff on the page to move unexpectedly, because it’s really annoying when you’re trying to click somewhere but miss because stuff moved around. That’s why it only does things when you click.

Also, on the post creation form on Alexandrite I put the “Title” input first, but the official UI has the URL first, which maybe makes it simpler to create a UI to offer these extra options (and the archive links), so maybe I’d need to reorder them and think about stuff a bit more?

If you have any ideas for some other place to put the link’s title and the “use this title” button I’m all ears!