Hey 👋
Just started self-hosting photon app a few days ago and am very interested in your experiences?
Running on v2.0.0-rc.4 and just love the UX in comparison to lemmy native. I am experiencing some issues though. Nothing too major. Some issues might be due to me being inexperienced self-hosting. Also don't want to clog github issues with unwarranted claims.
Hope some of you can chime in with your experience here and help me find the root cause. List ordered by personal preference:
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Random loading issues when sorting by Hot/Twelve hours. Might be related to my main instance lemm.ee. I think they did change some server settings (cloudflare, DDOS IIRC and downtime a few days ago) and around the same time the issues started. I click my bookmark for the photon front page and the screens stays black with only the logo in the center. If I manually remove the sort setting from my browser local storage it starts working again, but can not select Twelve hours. Happens a few times a day at random. Other times it works. Have not tried to reproduce in phtn.app when it happens, but will the next time. Browser console says failed requests, might be some server-side blocking of lemm.ee? Would be great if photon did catch the exception and show at least the UI instead of the loading screen. You can not navigate anywhere / fix the UI when it was opened with a direct link.
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Posts don't refresh after changing sort params, only after hard page refresh. Seems to be an issue - saw it on github already and a comment that this was fixed a few hours ago. => Is there an easy way to run master branch bleeding edge instead of tagged releases? Currently only self-hosting for myself and nobody would notice restarts / downtimes.
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Pinned custom menu items gone since the latest stable version. Might have just been dropped on purpose? Could not find an explanation or issue on github though. Was a nice feature.E.g. there seems to be no way to go to the front page other than clicking the photon icon in the top left corner. Or a quick way to jump into my own submissions, etc.
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Custom favicon not working I think I set the param right and I see my favicon path inserted into the source code. Path works and image is served if I open it manually in browser. Maybe only if photon is not tied to a single instance?
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Minor personal preference: on really large screens it would be great if the top navigation bar would not stretch full screen width, but start and end with the main sidebar & content area. The top left logo and buttons in the top right corner disappear to the very far edges and make photon harder to use.
Looking forward to hear about similar experiences and find out what I'm doing wrong / raise valid issues & feature requests on github.
Edit: Also automatic "mark read" of the inbox notification badge seem to be wonky. Have not had time to debug in detail, but it only works some times. Not that big of a deal though as there is a dedicated "mark all read" buttons.
Edit 2: 2.0.0-rc5 was released a few hours ago and fixes the major two issues. Thank you @[email protected] !
Thank you so much!****
#1 and #2 are great. Yes... infinity scroll off... can't stop otherwise.
Everything else is not important. Was writing it down here to clear some mental bandwidth.
Excited about RC5.
Thank you so much for your effort! Lemmy web is so much better with your interface.