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Tesseract: An Advanced Lemmy Client

The goal of Tesseract is to address as many things in Lemmy that annoy me as I can. I also trawl various "is there any way to [blank] in Lemmy?" posts to get feature ideas. Both of those lists are pretty extensive, so Tesseract has accumulated quite a few features.

Github: https://github.com/asimons04/Tesseract/

Hosted / Demo Instance: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/

Note that the hosted instance defaults to Lemmy World, but it is unlocked to be able to connect to any Lemmy server.

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A couple of questions on Tesseract behaviour and UI (feddit.nl)
submitted 4 months ago by reddwarf@feddit.nl to c/tesseract@dubvee.org
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Hi All,

First of all, love this UI for Lemmy and the functionality it brings!
Thanks to all involved!

I have 3 questions regarding Tesseract and perhaps people here can help or explain things.

Is there a way to have the margins disabled in Card view?
Right now I always click that button “Disable margins” to achieve this.
Would be nice to not to have to do the same default action every time.
If I use the view “Wide compact” or “Reader” then the margins disappear automatically.
If the “Card” view would have this option (or generally this offered as an option for any view type) then that would be great.

Comments button does not open in a new tab, clicking on the link of post does open it in a new tab I have the option “Open Posts in New Tab” set to ‘on’.
My expectation would be that any click on a post would open that post in a new tab, comments button included.
Only votes buttons would not show this behaviour as that would not be the expected outcome I think.

When I am in a community (say c/tesseract@dubvee.org) and click the plus button to add a post, the community field is empty.
I would expect the community field to have “tesseract@dubvee.org” pre-filled.
You can search by typing in that field but it makes more sense to have it pre-filled if I am already inside a community.

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Is there a way to have the margins disabled in Card view?

Sure. I re-wrote all the renderers in the upcoming release, and still need to adjust the existing views to account for those changes. I can add a "Wide Card" view since I'll be working in that section anyway.

Comments button does not open in a new tab

That's fixed in the current dev branch (1.4.30). I noticed that myself not too long ago and fixed it yesterday.

When I am in a community...and click the plus button to add a post, the community field is empty

That was kind of an intentional choice on my part. The community sidebar button "Create Post" will pre-fill the community, and you can click the community name and chose "Create Post" with the same pre-fill behavior. My thought was that if I was in community A, and thought of something for community B, I should have some button available that would not pre-fill the community so I could select one.

That said, I agree with the point you're making. I'll see if there's a clean way to address both. The only hiccup is there's no way for the options in that button to know if the community is restricted to mods posted, so that may cause a soft bug.

[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the insane quick response! 😀

Thanks on points 1 + 2, that helps and I am looking forward to see those implemented.
On the last point, I cannot find that "community sidebar button "Create Post"". On the left I see a panel with "Home", "Explore communities", my list of subscribed communities, that kind of thing. I cannot see a new post button. For now I can only see the big plus button on the top-right of the screen and that does not pre-fill the community, as you explained. So if I can train myself on finding and using that button that will pre-fill the community then I'd be set.

...now on the hunt to find that darn button you talk about....

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Are you using it on mobile or desktop? On mobile, the sidebar is hidden for space constraint reasons, but if you click the community name on the post or in the card at the top of the community in the banner, it'll bring up the Community Modal with lots of options.

On Desktop, the community sidebar needs to be expanded. That sidebar also hides itself unless the window is wide enough. When it collapses itself, the community card (With the community name, stats, etc) moves above the feed. When viewing a post in that community, there's no access to it except by clicking the community name in the post header.

c/community Feed Has the Community Card at the Top

Clicking the community name there will bring up the option modal:

The community names in posts/comments will also bring up that modal (e.g. if you're already on a post in that community)

Community Profile Modal

Maybe I can add the "Create Post" and "Unsubscribe" buttons to the mobile-view card? I had them there at one point, but felt they made things a little too "busy".

I have added a "Create post in {community}" button to the navbar "Plus" menu, but without adding a bunch of extra support state variables to track the last seen community, it can only show when you're on the /c/community feed (e.g. not when viewing a post in that community). It also can't know if the community is restricted to mods, either.

Not sure if I'm going to keep that or wait until I have some way to address those two issues.

[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm using Voyager on mobile and started to use Tesseract on desktop. I'm also hosting Tesseract on my own server with Docker.

I seem to see a different UI then you do for some reason:

The community card is always on top it seems, at least for me, in any view type I choose. You can also see that the right sidebar/panel is empty:

I did realize that when clicking the community details you get the option to post in the community itself. I just thought it would make sense that when in a community, I get a button/option to create a new post in that community and not have to fill in the community name. For me it makes way more sense to have a button in the posts list/view (any type tbh) that you can always access no matter where you are in that list of posts. It's debatable if that function would make sense when viewing a post.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think what you're running into is that either your window or screen resolution is below the 2xl breakpoint which what's causing the sidebar on the right to remain hidden.

2xl is defined in Tailwind as @media (min-width: 1536px) so a minimum width of 1536 px.

The community details (rules, mods, etc) are available from the profile modal when that's hidden, but it would be easier to have dedicated convenience buttons for creating a post, etc. I've added those to the area below the banner when the community sidebar is hidden:

[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Indeed, making the browser larger then shows the community sidebar and that button to hide it. Guess that is clear then. Ideally that space would re-size with what is given, up to. point where it cannot show anymore community sidebar info but hey, at least now I know why it was/is hidden!

Those buttons below the banner make a lot of sense!

[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Flickering of video player when partially shown

I noticed this behavior, the video player starts flickering when partially hidden. So whenever I scroll and that video player starts to get hidden, it detracts my attention due to that flickering. Nothing functionally wrong, just annoying 😀

Edit: gave up on posting mp4, mov, webm, gif, via imgur, etc. Gods, sharing media is horrible in Lemmy.

Why for (example) would this not work?

![Flickering of video player when partially shown](https://imgur.com/sFygK2J)

Imagine a webpage where 2/3 of a video player is visible and it flickers