Xylight

The way I choose my icons for Photon is I kinda just scroll the list of my library and pick one that fits.

That’s an option. You can change the thumbnail alignment to the left, then use compact instead of list mode. OP is using bad settings.

Hi everyone, I’m the dev. Reading all these comments really hurts when it’s something you’ve poured your heart and soul into for over a year.

There’s reasons I do everything I do in this UI, and my primary goal is to make Lemmy accessible for everyone.

This is the “cozy” view as well, but there’s a “compact” view for people like me who enjoy more information density. Again, my end goal is to make Lemmy accessible. I don’t do this for the sidebars for convoluted reasons I won’t get into.

I’m not the one trying to advertise it, and I’ve never really tried to because of the fear of disapproval. I think I should advertise it myself now because then I can showcase the best parts and not get misunderstood. This screenshot uses the “list” view, imo the worst one, with some cursed chrome scrollbars.

Now that I see that the majority of users believe this sucks, I’m not sure if my mission is worth it or if I’m even doing it right.

I’m probably being too sensitive to criticism which I should expect from any project. But this project is the only one I used to feel proud of, then people chiming in claiming it’s the ugliest thing they’ve seen. I don’t know im blind to design which is the only thing I considered myself “good” at in terms of web dev.

If there’s an epic games game you want but don’t want to use the epic launcher or you’re on Linux, Heroic Games launcher id a good choice

That’s a good point, i didn’t consider the value of the content it creates

why the hell do websites even have those 6 separate input fields? you can just have one and style it differently

to play devil’s advocate, from reddit’s view those third party apps were just using server resources and making them no money.

i’m pretty confused why people here understandably hate DRM, monopolies, and billionares, but are fine with steam and Gaben

I need to add language settings to communities and profiles. I really dislike how lemmy handles this though.

If you change it in lemmy-ui, it will propagate to Photon because it’s an account wide setting.

Why not?

Photon is available for any instance at https://phtn.app.

Alexandrite is available for any instance at https://alexandrite.app.

I don’t like when instances will host photon for anything other than the default interface, as then it’s just a more limited, outdated version of photon and another point of failure.

Hey, I’m the Photon dev. I’d like to know which parts Photon incorrectly displayed, so far I only see tables rendering incorrectly. I’ll have this fixed soon.

Update: fixed table displays, pushed to main

Could this be updated now? 🥺 (you can test here)