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Photon Announces Revamped Design

We're thrilled to unveil a significant redesign of Photon, the user interface for the fediverse! Since its inception, Photon has strived to make the fediverse more accessible with a user-friendly design.

Mono-Light addresses a key request from our community: increased information density. This redesign allows you to view more content at a glance, streamlining your fediverse experience.

Here's a glance at our new design:

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As you can see, every UI element has been streamlined while still remaining beautiful. You can see so much more at once, with no sacrifice to usability. Got fat fingers? just cut a bit of it off.

You can expect this new design to roll out by the end of today, April 1st.

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I don't really like Nord themes so I won't personally use this but here you go:

{"other":{},"primary":{"100":"#8fbcbb","900":"#5e81ac"},"zinc":{"50":"#eceff4","100":"#e5e9f0","200":"#d8dee9","400":"#d8dee9","500":"#e5e9f0","700":"#4f586a","800":"#4c566a","900":"#434c5e","925":"#3b4252","950":"#2e3440"},"slate":{"25":"#eceff4","50":"#e5e9f0","100":"#d8dee9","200":"#d8dee9"}}

v1.28.0

• Add custom theme support
  • Access from the settings page or clicking "Color scheme" in main menu
  • Instance themes are coming later
• add pasting images directly into comments
• fix sidebar collapsing stuff

Try a theme

To import/make a theme, go to settings > theming. You can also click "color scheme" in the main menu.

I made a catppuccin theme for photon. Import this:

{"zinc":{"50":"#cdd6f4","100":"#bac2de","200":"#a6adc8","300":"#9399b2","400":"#7f849c","500":"#6c7086","600":"#585b70","700":"#45475a","800":"#313244","900":"#1e1e2e","925":"#181825","950":"#11111b"},"primary":{"100":"#a6e3a1","900":"#7287fd"},"other":{"white":"#ffffff"},"slate":{}}

and voila! This theme only changes dark mode colors right now.

This theme only works in dark theme for now

Theme (importable in Photon v1.28.0+)

{"zinc":{"50":"#cdd6f4","100":"#bac2de","200":"#a6adc8","300":"#9399b2","400":"#7f849c","500":"#6c7086","600":"#585b70","700":"#45475a","800":"#313244","900":"#1e1e2e","925":"#181825","950":"#11111b"},"primary":{"100":"#a6e3a1","900":"#7287fd"},"other":{"white":"#ffffff"},"slate":{}}

This was mostly a bug fix and polish update

• Fix assymetrical buttons on mobile
• Make posts that fit maximum height expanded by default
• Fix and close #248 (Highlighting text and clicking link should wrap text in link)
• Add community and user banners
• Performance: make docker server use bun instead of node
• Migrate to Sveltekit 2
• Improve post vote hitboxes
• Add a loading spinner for photon instances where SSR is off
• and more!

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.26.0...v1.27.0

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What's Changed

• Add phtn.ngn.tf to the instance list by @ngn13 in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/230
• Upgrade mono-svelte to v0.4.3
• Redesign main menu
• Add icon and banners to admin config
• Fix community settings button appearing when it shouldn't

New Contributors

• @ngn13 made their first contribution in https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/pull/230

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.24.1...v1.25.0

Alt text: a Christmas inflatable decoration of a snowman on top of a mug labeled "hot cocoa"

The Photon community has moved from lemmy.xylight.dev to lemdro.id, because it's getting difficult to have to keep my old instance online.

All updates and questions should go here from now on!

I have a few questions, please comment if you match all of most of these:

• Do you use an RX 6000 series GPU?

• Do you experience random freezes when playing games?

• Are those freezes a "page fault"? (Use journalctl to check)

• Do these issues occur in OpenGL games?

• Are the page faults a GCVM_PROTECTION_FAULT?

• What mesa version do you use?

• What Linux distro do you use?

I've been having frequent freezes and it renders my operating system nearly unusable. I have to restart my computer to recover, and I lose all of my unsaved work.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Do you use an RX 6000 card on Linux but have not had this issue?

Photon now supports viewing YouTube links, in app!

• feat: YouTube embeds
  • in order not to wreck your bandwidth, you must click to view (configurable)
• Feature: allow instance selection on modlog page by @0xCmdrKeen in #199
• feat: fix and re-add crosspost combining
• docker: switch to node-alpine image for faster builds

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.21.0...v1.23.0

sorry for no updates in a while, took a bit of a break

• feat: Combine crossposts in a feed into one post
  • A button will be visible to expand them
• feat: Setting to open posts in new tab
• fix: weird comment editing bug on ctrl + enter
• misc: switch docker image to node-slim
• fix: centering in post pages

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v1.20.4...v1.21.0

(does not reflect my opinion, just thought it looked funny)

Less hostile when in context.

Taken from a YouTube channel called Not Just Bikes.

Taken on a pixel 6 so not very high quality