I don't know how best to provide one's hue ... I'm using the slider all the way to the left ... a dark burgundy red so that everything else pops! Works really nicely!!

Hope suggestions are appreciated here?!

Loving the columnar layout and the way I can have my feed on the left and just kinda work through it without losing my place or anything. And so the general idea behind this post is to lean into that dynamic as much as possible. In a way I'm thinking that taking inspiration from the mastodon or tweetdeck layouts might make sense.

Some more specific thoughts:

1. It'd be nice if the notifications view could leave the feed column intact so that one can go back and forth between viewing a post and reading/responding to replies
2. Posting to a community could similarly occupy only the space on the ~~left~~ right while leaving the feed column intact.

Perhaps taking this too far ... could there be multiple columns. Like 3? Feed - Post/comments - "Sidebar", where the sidebar can be the normal lemmy side bar, or, the notifications view, and maybe the post writing view too ... basically all the other stuff. And maybe it could optionally hidden or expanded, like the sidebar right now?

Otherwise ... loving Alexandrite and the columnar view!!

Edit I've deployed the new version that brings lemmy API calls to the client-side, let me know if you run into any issues!

Original post:

Hey everyone!

First, as you might have seen, lemmy.world, among others, experienced a hack. As part of their mitigation efforts they logged everyone out. I knew Alexandrite didn't yet handle expired sessions so I made a fix this morning. Now when you load Alexandrite it'll redirect you back to the login page if your session has expired.

Second I wanted to mention some of my ongoing work. I'm in the middle of a big rewrite! So far all of the interactions between Alexandrite and Lemmy (except loading images) happened on Alexandrite's server, but because of rate limits and hosting costs this is not as easy to scale, so I'm in the middle of rewriting it to move all of the Lemmy API usage to the client side. When this gets deployed hopefully in the next few days you'll have to log in again as the login token will be stored somewhere else. One downside of this is it bumps the minimum Lemmy version to 0.18.1, but most of the big servers should probably be updated by the time I release this, most already are. This effort should hopefully make it easier to self host Alexandrite, something I plan on exploring and documenting more later.

Besides having to log in again this should all be behind the scenes work, so you shouldn't otherwise notice anything different.

After all of that's done I had planned on working on either adding more of the missing features, or making some alternate post/feed layouts. I also plan on adding settings (both Lemmy and Alexandrite settings), the most flashy of which will be ability to change the hue of things on the website. Don't like all the purple? You'll be able to change that!

What can I try to troubleshoot this? I've tried clearing the cache.

It makes it easier to prioritize what I work on if I know someone's wanting a feature. What sort of stuff do you wish Alexandrite had? Especially talking about missing features from the main UI.

If you can, please provide some explanation for why you would like that feature and what problem it would solve for you (unless of course it's a feature that Lemmy has already but Alexandrite doesn't support yet). Knowing what problem you want solved helps me work with you to brainstorm ideas for the best solution (see the XY problem).