What next?

In addition to what the others have said (particularly the Top sorting options and markdown toolbar), I'd like a way to link directly to a comment. We already have the thread view, so it would just be a matter of adding a link to each comment. (Update: Just made this PR #56)

Another easy and quick change is to add a preview button to posts bodies (just like comments).

For the PWA, you can consider adding notifications (optional of course), but I don't think this is a big deal.

I think handling of adding new communities could be better (or present at all). Right now, I have to use the traditional lemmy-ui to add a community that hasn't been visited yet and refresh a few times. This isn't the fault of Photon, but I would if it could make this process smoother.

Finally, I look forward to the completion of the admin tools such as approving new applicants.

Overall, I'm very happy with the state of Photon and have been using it daily on desktop and mobile :]

• An option to choose how far back the Top sort goes. Currently, it defaults to All Time, with no (obvious) option to change it without editing the URL.
• Maybe a cookie to save the toolbar collapsed stage?
• Limited markdown (or at least links) in post titles.
• An indicator (maybe similar to the Active/Hot/Top/New selector) to show which of the communities in the sidebar you are on.
• A button on posts marked NSFW to show a preview on the feed without opening the full post. As a random example, on https://photon.xylight.dev/c/[email protected], many posts are marked NSFW for spoilers. It would be nice to be able to click on the images to show them inline with the feed.
• This is totally unimportant, but I like how some clients fade off the text (based on vertical height) when truncating rather than simply cutting it off past a certain character.
• I know it's on the roadmap, but I also hope you can add a markdown toolbar.

Thank you for all of your work on this.

First of all, great job, this is now my new way to browse Lemmy on Desktop :)

I would like to make some suggestions for you to consider:

• Infinite scrolling, instead of pagination
• On Sidebar, present the instance / community mods (like in the OG lemmy frontend), being these ones clickable to go directly to their profile (useful to send messages to mods)
• On Sidebar, have the same markdown as Lemmy OG on the instance / community text / description (bold, italic, etc), since today everything has the same formatting and it's harder to read
• Togglable dark mode / light mode

thanks again for all your effort

I don't love the full-width design to be honest, I'd love to have the previous narrower view as an option. Also, like others mentioned, more Top sort options. Thank you for all the hard work on Photon!