Alexandrite

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Alexandrite is a desktop-first alternative Lemmy client.

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What are your most wanted features? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It makes it easier to prioritize what I work on if I know someone's wanting a feature. What sort of stuff do you wish Alexandrite had? Especially talking about missing features from the main UI.

If you can, please provide some explanation for why you would like that feature and what problem it would solve for you (unless of course it's a feature that Lemmy has already but Alexandrite doesn't support yet). Knowing what problem you want solved helps me work with you to brainstorm ideas for the best solution (see the XY problem).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would really love to see a light theme. The current theme is absolutely gorgeous, but I'm one of those weirdos that just likes light themes better. During the day the eye strain on the dark theme is a bit much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I second this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have accounts on multiple lemmy servers (2 main ones, and one "alternate" one. I haven't decided which main one to use exclusively). I'd like to be able to swap between them the way I can on the various android apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's in now! Announcement post

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! That was fast. Running the new version now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was planning on implementing this soon! Because they are all pretty related I wanted to do an account/profile switcher at the same time as I also:

put the instance in URLs like Voyager does so links to Alexandrite are sharable and don't require you to be logged in to the same instance as the person sending the link
support self-hosting Alexandrite

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Great! Thanks!

[–] Paralda 2 points 1 year ago

Default comment sorting would be awesome. I usually sort comments by "top", and having to press that every time I load a new post is kind of annoying

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is there any plan to add the markdown image functionality of the base U.I, either the small picture icon to prompt an upload or the ability to paste an image into the post/comment box to have it upload and inster with the proper markdown?

Also any thoughts on adding the archive prompt for a url post?

I've been recommending this project to everyone i know online that uses the lemmyverse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Image uploading is something I really want to add because it's the biggest missing feature and I think it could be done better than the official UI does it. Unfortunately I can't add it quite yet because I'm not able to upload images unless I proxy them through Alexandrite's servers (which is what Voyager does). This is the issue on Lemmy's Github that I'm waiting on.

I was thinking of adding the archive links around the time I add the image uploading.

I’ve been recommending this project to everyone i know online that uses the lemmyverse

Thanks! It's been getting a lot of attention lately which is exciting and scary. This is by far the most attention any of my side projects have gotten, and it's pretty cool to see so many people enjoying something I made!