What’s Changed

• feat: add piefed support
  • you can log into your Piefed account and browse all available features in the API
  • some piefed exclusive features are available too, like user/post flairs, feeds, and topics.
• perf: optimize code bundle size – initial bundle from 780 KB -> 620 KB
  • cool, tf does that mean
    • ok bub this basically means that theres less code loaded initially so stuff loads faster.
  • I rewrote some bad libraries that were bloating up the javascript
  • yes im embarassed the bundle is this high. im getting it lower every update i swear
  • at least its still smaller than lemmy-ui
  • in addition i restructured the entire file tree of the app, and wrote nearly 3000 import statements manually because i have a human soul and i lowk felt filled with determination
• impr: rewrite feed handling, cache more things
  • post feeds, post pages, communities, feed feeds, topic fe
  • wait a second, feed feeds?? this naming is getting out of hand.
  • ok, in piefed there’s “feeds”. that’s pretty cool. but now the “main feed” can either be the main feed or the main feed.
    • what?
• impr: use native css for more things
  • this is partially because i am embarassed that i use tailwind
  • i am migrating common components to use vanilla css but with some advantages of tailwind
  • like i can use a compile-time design system and it has nice @variant things
  • this also makes the DOM tree smaller so theres probably some benefit elsewhere…maybe
• impr: automatically mark inbox items as read when you click jump
• design: make the modlog not look like absolute buns
  • it actually fits on one screen now and looks nicer. you can now observe the insanity of Lemmy’s moderation with more comfort.
• design: make the mobile navbar not look like absolute buns
  • i made the tap targets bigger too. next update i will make them cover the whole screen
• design: make the accounts page not look like absolute buns
• impr: i made the things that should be radio groups actually be radio groups. no problem
• impr: expandables and comments now use <label> so that it uses browser native html
• fix: admin detection is better. lemmy removed a property i used constantly for some reason. i fixed that though
• impr: this one makes me mad. for some reason, native CSS transitions absolutely ruin font rendering (on firefox at least). so i removed some animations or replaced them with svelte ones (js ew)
• impr: i preload a lot more things on hover/tap now. things will be like 100ms faster.
  • call me john locke in the way i be optimizing ts
• misc: the term “instance” has been replaced with “server”. let’s be real, talking about instances makes no sense

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/compare/v2.0.2...v2.1.0

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