Not yet but I’ll add that eventually.

Ah right, totally forgot about that. It’ll be in the next release!

Thank you! Glad you like it!

This was the most glaring missing basic feature for so long, glad it’s finally in, I don’t have to go back to the default ui just to write my announcement posts anymore. It wasn’t possible to upload images from third party websites last time I was actively working on Alexandrite, and I think it’s been possible for quite a long time by now and I’m finally getting to it.

Glad there are people still here enjoying it! :)

Next update will include image uploading, here’s a preview:

I don’t think so, at least when I scroll my pixelfed feed it loads images from various domains.

I was feeling pretty bad about leaving it untouched for so long, but working on (any of) my side projects wasn’t interesting me for a while. However with all the general social media turmoil out there (Meta trying to be more evil, US banning TikTok, and billionaires in general being just the worst) I figured I should do my part to improve the appeal of the fediverse. Seeing lots of things I want to improve, and I’m remembering how much I like making things look nice.

Lol I was wondering how people would react to seeing it for the first time. Thanks!

I am still around, but I’ve always been a lurker. Just saw the notification so I’m a couple days late. I do see mentions!

If it works like blocking works for users/communities, posts from blocked instances shouldn’t show up in Alexandrite too.

Yep, this is a bug I’m aware of, for what it’s worth there’s also an issue on Github someone reported this in. You can track it here.

Yep, I would like to do that at some point, just haven’t been working on Alexandrite all that much lately, but it’s still on my todo list!

Or find and replace all the periods with ones that are slightly larger font.

Ooo I like that idea!

Actually it sounds like it might be possible to keep things backwards compatible so I’ll attempt to make it work for both versions. The 0.19 announcement post mentions it should be possible to stay backwards compatible.

Oops forgot to post links, I edited the post.

I host Alexandrite at https://alexandrite.app/ and several instances also host Alexandrite on their own domains, like https://a.lemmy.world

Yes, launching the game launches Ubisoft’s launcher and you have to sign into that to play.

Also if you use Proton it doesn’t auto close the launcher when you quit the game so it’ll run up your play time while the launcher is minimized to the system tray.

This is intentional, but I’ll probably be changing it.

When you click a post while in a feed it changes the URL so it’s easier for people to share links to posts, as people probably are most used to copying a URL out of the address bar to send to people. It causes a lot of issues though, like the one you mentioned, and the ‘back’ button on your browser basically doesn’t work either. Because of all of that I’m probably going to remove that feature, and make a more prominent “share” button somewhere.

I’ll probably end up waiting until one of the popular instances migrates to 0.19, then I’ll quickly work on migrating to 0.19 and release a new version. The main alexandrite.app site will use the 0.19 version once lemmy.world updates, because that’s its default instance. Exact specifics might change depending on how the rollout goes and how much free time I have around then, so this might change. If Alexandrite updates before your server updates you might just have to use the default UI until your instance updates.

For self-hosters who want to wait on 0.19, Alexandrite’s releases have version numbers nowdays so instead of using the latest docker tag, I’d recommend using the last non-0.19 version until you upgrade Lemmy.

The PR says “Analogous to the existing community block functionality, users can also block instances. This means that all content from communities which are hosted there is hidden. Posts from users of blocked instances are still visible in other places.” So it sounds like what you’re looking for.