Dev update #18: Better Markdown, Inbox v2, Desktop instance sidebar & more

Hello everyone!

As always, all changes are on nemmy.app.

What changed

Better Markdown Support

Nemmy now supports a ton of different markdown options. Here is a Post on Nemmy showcasing the different options.

Better caching & comment caching

Most issues with the SPA post loading mod should be fixed now. Posts now open in a new tab, again, and comments are now cached as well.

Using these new techniques posts and their comments should now load in an instant. But this cache is only used for the last post visited. I did this because I don't want the cache to explode in size.

Improved Design principles

I upgrade the design specs of Nemmy and cards will now look better going forward.

Instance Info Sidebar

The instance info button in the sidebar doesn't make best use of desktop resources. So now, on wide screens, there will be a sidebar next to the posts.

Improved Explore Section

I further improved the design, although it's still not optimal for desktop.

Inbox v2

The inbox page has been improved, now showing the users comment which someone replied to. Users can now also open the comment chain showing only the context.

Comment should load better now

My fight with the damn comment trees goes on.

Work continues on the Bookmarks page

I now removed the extra page and moved the bookmarks to the user profile - like reddit and any other reddit-like app do.

The button is already there but is non-functional as of right now. It only breaks stuff :).

Meta

I've had very little time again over the last couple of days and this trend will continue into next week. So the next update will probably be sometime in the second half of next week.

Well, that's it for this update.