Any news on a fix for long text posts? Seems to me that's a huge issue that needs to be fixed ASAP if Lemmy is going to continue to grow.

Also, I'm not a developer and I know it's a lot more complicated than this...but still, like, 50k characters is like 50kb of data. Even a small .jpg is much more than that. To be fair Lemmy isn't the only site that struggles with this, but it's weird that posting a few pages of text is a struggle anywhere in 2023.

Not brighter at startup, but being fully regulated makes up for it a bit. You have the D18 at ~14,000 lumens with SST-20 5000k/6500k and the M44 with 9520 lumens. That's a noticeable but not massive difference in perceived brightness, and once the batteries get down to ~3.8v (which happens faster on the D18) the M44 will still do 9520 lumens, or very close to it, while the D18 drops to ~9000 lumens and will continue to drop as the battery drains. The M44 would beat the D18 even more with the batteries at ~3.6v.

Additionally, the M44 will likely sustain higher brightness long term due to the more efficient driver that handles heat better. The D18 sustains ~1800 lumens, and the M44 will likely sustain over 2000, perhaps ~2400. But both lights are so small I wouldn't expect more than that due to thermal limitations. Also the M44 will have ~20% better battery life.

Still, I'm with you. It would be nice if he kept the D18 in production, so you have the more 'functional' M44 option and the more 'hot rod' D18 option.

Ooof that's a big swing. It might even be more or less throwy than XP-L HI/XHP35 HI depending on the flux lottery.

Plus with 3000k/4000k high CRI SFT-40 coming out there's going to be even more competition for warm/neutral, high CRI throwy goodness. Of course I wouldn't expect the tint to be much better than SST-20 4000k (fingers crossed, but it is luminus we're talking about here lol). Maybe there will be something similar to the FA4 bin.

So, biggest advantage I see 719A potentially holding on to is consistency in tint. XP-L HI has some consistently awesome bins, but also some bad ones, and I don't know if theres a lot of 90 CRI ones with good tint, only 80 CRI. XHP35/.2 HI is much more of a lottery than XP-L HI in my experience - some fantastic, some pretty green. There might be a consistently good bin, but afaik there's still availability issues with finding consistently good tinted XHP35 HI's in large numbers, especially in 80 or 90 CRI.

So if 719A can have the same consistently good tint that other nichia LEDs manage, then it makes a good case for itself, as long as it can get close to as throwy as XP-L HI/XHP35 HI.

But yea, if the performance isn't there, or is wildly inconsistent, then that could really make it meh central.

But if ZL are putting in the successor to the sc64w HI, then my hopefully guess is that performance is at least competitive.

"Estimated ship date: mid July"

Do you know the timetable for Simon getting 719As in his lights? Last I heard it was supposed to be ~May-June. He might beat zebralight to the punch with the first 719A light.

'Sup Lemmys. Just made an account here.

I actually hated the move from digg to reddit, mostly because I thought digg having post previews was so much better for readability and avoiding clickbait than reddit. But now Lemmy has them!

The interface is a bit of getting used to, but I'm already noticing lots of nice features.

Like, did you know you don't need a multi-billion dollar company in order to make a functional mobile site? Crazy!