I’m the developer of a desktop-first Lemmy client called Alexandrite.

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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • 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.















  • I just put in a change which:

    • when you enable that option in the settings, it will open the sidebar right away (or close it if you turn it off)
    • if that option is set, on page load it’ll start with it open.

    The monkey wrench in this whole thing is that the option doesn’t exactly do what it sounds like. It toggles between two different styles for the sidebar, one (the default) which shows the sidebar as an overlay that closes when you click outside of it or navigate, and the second being a sidebar that actually takes up space in the page as basically another column and doesn’t care if you click on anything.

    I could make it just remember if it was open last too, that’s totally doable, but I feel like automatically starting with it open is probably just as good.

    Btw, I also just made links in markdown that link to external sites open in new tabs.