Alexandrite 0.8.19 - redesigned blocks page, instance blocking, better user/community/crosspost tooltips, 'frosted glass' card layout backgrounds - Lemmy.World
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25135715
[https://lemmy.world/post/25135715] > alexandrite.app [https://alexandrite.app/]
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[https://github.com/sheodox/alexandrite] > > Hey, got some new updates for ya! >
> I added instance blocking, and completely redesigned the page for managing
blocks. For all three categories you’re able to search, so you don’t have to go
to someone’s profile or find a post by them to find a block button to click.
Honestly this page looked awful before, the sizing was weird, if you blocked
something with a long name the ‘unblock’ buttons would be huge. I mostly copied
the features available on lemmy-ui (like the searching, and the fact that
instance blocks are a thing now). > > screenshot of the blocks page
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dcbd9488-1919-464f-8cb1-2fa3cb1b1cba.png] > >
Tooltips in a couple places got some big upgrades! > > User tooltips now show
the full ‘address’ of the user (which it did before, but it wasn’t super obvious
what you were looking at), and you can now see when they made their account. > >
screenshot of the tooltip shown when hovering over a link to a user
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7657ea7e-1d4b-40fe-9d75-0b19e509076b.png] > >
Community tooltips got the same address/origin date. > > screenshot of a tooltip
shown when hovering over a link to a community
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4c0d2471-072b-4475-956d-159094265484.png] > >
When you hover over a crosspost link it additionally shows the crosspost’s
title, who posted, when, the score, and comment counts. This should make it a
lot easier to see where other discussion is actually happening. > > screenshot
of a crosspost tooltip showing a different post title
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/356cb87f-9575-4cb0-9f51-b20b16edcff2.png] > >
The card layout has a new feature, a nice frosted glass background. This looks
similar to how Photon renders its link previews. If you’re not familiar with it,
this is what I’m talking about.
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e9ca209c-40cb-4672-b01d-dc4a1d148008.png]. The
effect is fairly subtle because it stretches over the entire card and it could
be distracting, I wanted to make sure a fully white image wouldn’t make the text
too hard to read. > > It’s on by default, but you can turn it off with the
“Frosted glass background” checkbox in Alexandrite settings when your Feed Post
Layout is set to Cards if you’d like. If you’re curious how it’s done, it loads
a low resolution thumbnail, places it with a low opacity behind the card, and
blurs it so it’s less distracting and hides how pixelated it is. It works
because all the gray background colors on the site (like all the gray
backgrounds on cards) are transparent so when stacked on other gray backgrounds
there’s always a contrast in color without any extra work. If you don’t want to
load extra images just for this, or if the blur makes the site lag on a low spec
device (didn’t notice any impact on my pc), then you might want to turn this
setting off. > > Screenshot of a card showing a photo of a bunny in some very
green grass, the colors from the image are visible
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3730776a-c686-4c94-8193-dd33cb77ccd6.png] > >
Besides that, I bumped the node version the docker image uses, and I think
that’s about it. > > Let me know if there’s any features Alexandrite is missing
that you’d really like! Especially interested in features you want that the
default Lemmy UI has that I haven’t added yet (like instance blocks until now,
community creation/editing, emojis, user/community search when typing a @ or !
in the markdown editor, etc).
