Happy to announce we've finally setup some alternative frontends.
- https://p.feddit.uk (photon)
- https://a.feddit.uk (alexanderite)
- https://old.feddit.uk (mlmym)
Photon might be flaky, we're on a release candidate because of issue I was running into using it in Firefox. It's also what I'm using to write this. If you notice any issues, feel free to let us know.
Nothing related to deployment, but I've noticed photon doesn't let you escape markdown like other clients do.
E.g. This:
\>watches french thing \>gets mad when it's subversive and weird ???
Get's displayed like this in photon:
*removed externally hosted image*
I'll look into that. Markdown is absolute hell to make work.
Absolutely get that, I've been doing some stuff with markdown lately and I didn't realise I could hate a file format so much. Best of luck, friend.
While I have you on markdown, this:
> test
>
> testIs currently displaying like a line break with no extra space between the two, rather than as two different paragraphs.
Other than that - great work. It's clearly the biggest hit of the frontends that we've added.
Yay. Photon is by far the best imo
Also strongly recommend Photon users change the theme to Catppuccin, it's such a lovely colour scheme
Catppuccin is very easy on the eyes, so cheers for the reminder to change it here too.
How do you change themes? On the themes page the import button doesn't work.
Click on your username/avatar at the top right, then Theme, then just click on Catppuccino
It scrolls! Dammit. The scrolling on Photon is a bit of a PitA when trying to make longer posts and it looks like it has caught me out here too.
Yeah, the text box getting its own scroll window instead of expanding is annoying. It can be expanded, but I imagine that's a pain to do on mobile.
@Emperor@feddit.uk I'll update photon soon to increase the size of the text box as you type.
I'll also tweak parts of the UI to make nested scrolling places more obvious. You can always mention me about this stuff, I want to keep this UI intuitive!
For anyone else annoyed by this, I've created a userscipt to auto expand the textarea. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.
// ==UserScript== // @name Autoexpand textarea // @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts // @match https://p.feddit.uk/* // @grant none // @version 1.0 // @author flamingos-cant // @description 06/08/2024, 21:05:31 // ==/UserScript== function updateHeight(textarea) { var text = textarea.target.value; var lineHeight = 1.25 * parseFloat(getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).fontSize); var taHeight = textarea.target.scrollHeight - 16 * 2; var lines = Math.max(Math.ceil(taHeight / lineHeight), 8); textarea.target.rows = lines; } setInterval((function () { let textareas = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea"); for (let textarea of textareas) { textarea.addEventListener("input", updateHeight); } }), 2000);
Oh, that's interesting. Another user has said in reply to my comment they have the option too. I'm using Brave Browser but I don't have Stylish or anything installed
Ooo Photon looks nice. Do you have any troubles using these as a PWA (Progressive Web App)?
And it has full search!
Having tried many of the alternative front ends, Photon is definitely my favourite when accessing Lemmy on my PC/laptop. I shall change my bookmark forthwith! 😄
Big fan of old.feddit, before this offering i've been using this frontend: https://o.opnxng.com/feddit.uk/ - but now that you've made old.feddit official, i'll be switching to that.
Yer, it was the best to me too. I want to see a good chunk of the list, so I don't like the picture being very big. I like your no pictures interface link, I'll try it. Thanks. 😃
Just a small thing. When you go to login on the alexandrite frontend, the instance is autofilled with lemmy.world, instead of feddit.uk.