Thanks!

I generally prefer things to be on Github. I don’t get notifications when people make new posts on here so I just have to check it regularly, but if you make an issue on Github I get an email about it, and it’s easier to track.

If you have a bunch of ideas, it’d be nice if you separated them out into separate Github issues, so I can close the ones I’ve finished if I decide to take on the work!

Thanks for asking!

Oooh that’s an interesting idea. Maybe in the future!

Thanks! I’m glad everyone’s liking it! Pretty exciting actually having an audience for one of my side projects for once.

Just updated with a few fixes I found, probably going to release this soon!

I’m not familiar with Librewolf, but are there any extra settings you can change to allow localStorage? I think browsers usually categorize it similarly with cookies so I’d imagine your cookie settings should already cover it, but just in case.

Alexandrite stores all its data in localStorage. For Alexandrite-specific features that Lemmy doesn’t officially support itself (like favoriting communities), there’s really no other place for it to store your settings.

That’d be fine, but I’d prefer a Github issue if you can! Makes it easier to track things is all, but no big deal.

Yep I’m working towards mobile support! I still intend to be desktop-first, but I need to support mobile for a few reasons:

• If it’s desktop-only you can’t really easily share links to posts on Alexandrite to friends, because if I don’t support mobile any mobile users following the link are going to have a bad time.
• Some people mentioned being interested in replacing lemmy-ui on their instance with Alexandrite, in order for that to be feasible it needs to support mobile.
• I generally optimize things to look good on maximized browser windows on desktop, but some people use monitors in portrait mode, or with a tiling window manager. Working on optimizing for mobile means I’m checking basically every window size in between to make sure it always looks good, which would help those other desktop users too.

That’s why I’m working on it.

By the way I also added some hotkeys yesterday, and there’s a new setting to show post details in the “List” post layout similar to the Card layout. Haven’t made announcements for them yet.

I just added some hotkeys, you can find them on the new help page. I plan on adding another hotkey for going to the next/prev post when viewing a post. Any other ones you’d want in particular?

I plan on adding cross posts, just haven’t quite gotten there yet!

(I’m the dev of Alexandrite) Officially there isn’t yet a way to self-host it without modifying the code (unless you host it on one of a few specific cloud providers like the official Alexandrite site does), but now that people are self hosting anyway I think adding support for it is going to be higher up on my priority list!

I never had considered before a few days ago that someone would host Alexandrite alongside their instance so it never occurred to me that someone might first interact with Lemmy through Alexandrite. I will definitely add registration!

I really want this. I haven’t tried any of the apps (other than the one I made) yet because I don’t want to give anyone my password. Oauth support would be so nice.