Lemmy v0.19.0 is introducing some breaking changes that, if I add support for in Photon, will break compatibility with instances before v0.19.0. If I don't add support for v0.19.0, instances with that version or higher will break. How should I proceed?

A: Keep an old version of photon available for people who need to use a pre-0.19.0 instance (medium difficulty)

B: Add a message to login saying the instance must be v0.19.0 or higher, nuke all backwards compatibility (easiest solution)

C: wait until most instances are on v0.19.0 to proceed with B

D: Add code to handle different versions (hardest solution)

I'd prefer that people be able to rely on Photon, and anything that prevents them from doing stuff on photon I see as a catastrophic issue. A looks the most appealing right now.

typing this from my phone so not the highest quality post but I've added some little tweaks since last update:

• fading out text now uses background clipping (no more janky transitions when changing background color)
• on a post page you can press the community icon to subscribe to it
• urls are now visible in list view
• fixed a few crashes

Versioning later

• Respect profile "hide scores" setting
• Disable downvote button on instances with it disabled
• optimizations
• fix crash when switching post page
• misc design tweaks

v1.8.0

• feat: completely rewrite report and inbox handling system, codebase is much cleaner
  • Private message reports are now visible in the moderation menu
• private messages are more consistent with other inbox items

Full Changelog:

v1.8.1

• comments and posts are finally consistent in compact/list mode
• added an option to align post thumbnails to the left in compact mode

I've implemented nearly all of the stuff I can think of. What should I add now?

I've tweaked the colors for light theme quite a lot. I think they look nice. It means I can make the background of buttons white, giving a clear separation.

• Tweak light theme colors
• Overhaul community page
• Add Inter font
  • I kept the default as System UI. You can enable Inter from the settings.
• Upgrade to Mono v0.3.2

obviously lots of these "just work" for most people.

An image of a dried up mummified "alien", likely hoax.

Captioned with "3am thirst be like"

With apple's recycled event, I've come to say I'm sick of phones.

Phones are already "perfected". They can call. Run apps.

We really need to focus on efficiency. E.g, lowering price, increasing battery life, improving software

But nooo. Add a bunch of extremely minor features with a 50% faster chip so you can watch ads at 1080p instead of 720p. I don't care! Give me a phone that'll last me 5 years and has a battery life that lasts a week. I don't need this crap every year. Why do we live in a situation where people think they need to buy a new phone yearly?!

I say a phone should get at minimum 5 years of software support.

I could try and find a way to condense crossposts in photon into single posts in your home feed.

(For example, if you see post x, and then later see post y, which is a crosspost of x, it'll be hidden. A little crossposts icons will be visible at the bottom of post x.)

I can't find an easy way to do this without a crossposts property in PostView though.