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Xylight‮@Xylight@lemdro.id

[Jul 26th 2026] Photon development update

Still going!

I’ve been exploring other projects recently but I still enjoy maintaining and improving Photon.

Lemmy v1

Support for Lemmy v1 (API v4) is complete as for all currently existing functions. I’ve finished a few of the new Lemmy features (post tags, multi communities) but still have some others to add.

This update also comes with a lot of technical improvements and UX improvements, and should fix a few long standing issues. I’m quite excited to merge it.

The way I implemented this update was to rebase the entire client on the API v4 schemas and structures. While this was great for my overall code quality, and helps me future proof this client, it means I now have to write a compatibility adapter to support API v3. To make things worse, I have to rewrite the entire Piefed adapter (unless I do some cursed setup like Piefed adapter -> v3 adapter -> v4/base).

Android app

You can now install an APK for Photon! It has a few minor issues but should be pretty usable, and it has edge-to-edge support unlike the PWA. You can get it from github.com/xyphyn/photon/releases, going to the latest one, and downloading app-release.apk. You can paste the GitHub link into obtainium, too.

Future

I have a lot of UX improvements to make, but I’m waiting until after Lemmy V1 releases to make them (I don’t want to bloat the PR too much). I want to make things more “reliable”, by fixing the way pages are cached, keeping scrolling states intact, adding “drafts” everywhere in case you accidentally delete things, and overall keeping everything in sync. Some changes in the API v4 PR provide the first step to achieving this.

I’m planning to make a “demo” version of Photon that has a heavily curated default feed (not for standard use! phtn.app will remain untouched) so that I can show it in my resume or something.

Closing

Thanks to everyone who uses this app! It was an important pathway to me becoming a better web developer (as much as I dislike that title). I’m rather surprised how many Lemmy servers host it now, and even strange obscure non-fediverse websites using it inexplicably. (Related to recent events, did you know Tesseract began as a fork of Photon?)

if you’d like to donate to support my work, you can do so here.

A faster, prettier, and nicer fediverse client. Contribute to Xyphyn/photon development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubReleases · Xyphyn/photonA faster, prettier, and nicer fediverse client. Contribute to Xyphyn/photon development by creating an account on GitHub.

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World Wide Web Consortium@w3c@w3c.social

35 years ago today, on 6 August 1991, @timbl shared about a project he called WorldWideWeb.

"The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system... Try it"
w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991

Thank you Tim and thank you to everyone who has helped make the web an open, powerful global information sharing system for all.
#WebAnniversary #WebHistory

historic image of Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. Text: "Try it." Sir Tim Berners-Lee introducing the web to the world, 6 August 1991"
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