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  • Xylight@lemm.eetoPhotonare the low res images intended?
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    24 days ago

    Recent versions of photon should improve this (2.0). Based on what you posted before, you’re using an instance hosting an old version of Photon. (this sort of thing is why I complain about instances hosting photon a lot)

    Photon uses some obscure Lemmy API things to download images that actually fit the screen so you aren’t wasting tons of bandwidth on 4k images on a 32x32 profile picture.

    As far as I know, no other client does this when it really should. Because of this, Lemmy doesn’t really support what I do all that well, and so the downscaling algorithm Lemmy uses causes images to look really low quality.

    Are you using phtn.app or some instance’s hosting of it?















  • 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.