Hey all, wanted to let you know about the stuff I’ve added in the last few days.
You can now configure your languages in the “Lemmy” tab in settings! Along with this Alexandrite now respects your instance/community’s configured discussion languages, as well as your language settings. If you ever saw a language_not_allowed error when trying to post or comment, this should fix it!
You can now create an account from within Alexandrite! From the login page just enter an instance and you’ll see a new button to create an account
And the account creation should have all the same things you’re used to seeing. Now if you’re introducing someone to Lemmy and send them a link to Alexandrite you won’t need to include a “well if you want to make an account go here first, then go back to this site” caveat.
Moderators! There are a couple changes for you too. First off when banning a user you can now do temporary bans, and can remove the user’s content just like in the official UI.
When viewing comments under a post, or when viewing posts on a community you will now see a badge next to comments/posts made by moderators. Note: the moderator list needs to be loaded separately for each community, which is why you won’t see the badges if you’re viewing from the home/search pages (it’s one server request to load a list of posts, if each list of post subsequently had to make 50 individual requests for communities that’d be pretty taxing on the servers so until you view a post from that community you won’t see “Mod” there).
A few bugs that were fixed:
- If you ctrl+click (or cmd+click on Mac) to open a post in a new tab, it will now do that instead of opening it in the overlay/column
- If a thread is locked you won’t be able to comment in the thread.
- Admins now can feature posts in Local
- Instances that have disabled downvoting (like Beehaw) won’t show the downvote button
- If you’re using Chrome, the “Reply” tooltip doesn’t get stuck open anymore.