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The main feature of this release is just for moderators. If you're the moderator of at least one community you'll see a new "Vibe Check" section in the sidebar when viewing a user page which is meant to help you identify trolls. When you're viewing a user's profile page, as you scroll (loading additional posts and comments) it will total up everything you've loaded so far, and the scores in various communities. This might be useful if you're trying to gauge the intentions of a commenter and you want to see if they're frequently upvoted in certain communities, or if they're frequently downvoted in other places.

I'm limiting this to just a mod tool, because I know inc

alexandrite.app - !alexandrite@lemmy.world - Github

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).

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

alexandrite.app - !alexandrite@lemmy.world - Github

This time it's mostly UI changes I really wanted to make, and some things people have asked for.

All toolbar toggles and dropdowns are now these nicer looking dropdowns. They look a lot more consistently sized, everything has a label I also added "Moderator View" into that new dropdown.

The search page looks way nicer now, here's the before:

And now:

Added an option that lets you t

Smaller release, mostly focused on some styling changes and easy features.

In the settings you can now set a default comment sort, also added "Controversial"

Now in the community/user sidebar and community search results you will see the full 'address' of a community/user. Clicking the text or the button on the right side copies it to your clipboard. In search results this makes it a lot easier to see what exactly the community is, not just what the display name says it is.

![screenshot of a community search for 'games'](https://lazysoci.al/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F20a95a63-fb25-4988-abec-34a1

alexandrite.app - !alexandrite@lemmy.world - Github

Finally added image uploading, so this is going to be my first update post with images I'll be able to write all on Alexandrite :D

As mentioned in the post you can now attach images to things, this means both on the post via the file selector like on lemmy-ui:

Or you can attach images by pasting or using the upload button to insert an image in the markdown editor (post text, comments, etc).

You can also set your avatar and banner on the Lemmy tab of Settings

This release mostly is a redesign of the instance/community/user sidebars on the right side of those pages. Things are in clear sections, each in a collapsible section that remembers if it was open. So if you're tired of seeing your instance's description every time just close it and it'll stay closed.

Instances and communities now show their full stats, and there are now pages for the legal info and linked/blocked instances. The instance sidebar also shows the list of admins.

If you use the 'Redirect' feed layout setting added in the previous release it now responds to clicks directly on the image or the background of cards.

When looking at your own profile there will be an "Edit Profile" button at the top of the sidebar.

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Hello, it's been a while!

I did most of this release like 6 months ago but never got around to finishing it up until yesterday.

There's a bunch of small theme changes, biggest being a slightly different header bar, and in general a lighter light theme and darker dark theme.

There's now a search field in the sidebar which lets you quickly search through your subscriptions, with a link to a full community search. You can search for a community by name, or for example @lemmy.world to see all from a certain instance.

By defaul

It took me way too long to get around to this, but with the release of Lemmy 0.19.0 I finally added support for how auth is done differently now. Everything should work the same, but you'll now be able to use Alexandrite again on 0.19.0 servers.

There are some more features that 0.19.0 added, I'll be adding those later, just wanted to make sure things still work first!

If you're self hosting Alexandrite, the docker image probably won't be available for another hour or so after this is posted, the build takes a while! The main Alexandrite site is already updated though!

At the moment, it's difficult to go to a community based on its link. For example, if I paste https://programming.dev/c/game_design into the search box, it shows some search results that mention that community, but no way to actually get there. I think the link to the community should appear prominently in the search results, or, even better, if you search for a community link, it should directly take you to that community. In my example, it would take me to https://a.lemmy.world/programming.dev/c/game_design

Hi :)

A small, not very important request, but at the moment if I want to edit the Sidebar of the Community I mod, I have to use the default UI to do so. Are there any plans to implement the edit button/link into the Alexandrite UI?

It would be great if there was an extra option under settings "Keep navigation sidebar open" that could hide the text and only showing the icons for subsciptions/settings etc. That would save a lot of space. Thanks for a awesome site!

https://i.imgur.com/RYLJbi5.png

alexandrite.app - !alexandrite@lemmy.world - Github

Just a few things this time, the biggest is mod team management. You can now add and remove mods from the "..." menu on posts and comments. You can also find links to the modlog to see what actions have been taken against that user.

You can also remove mods or leave the mod team of a community from inside the "Moderation" area of the sidebar (note: the "Modlog" link moved inside this section too as it's not useful to most people)

Alexandrite settings will now automatically update in every tab instantly, so if you change the theme in one tab, when you switch to another already open

When navigating posts in the feed, the URL is changed to each active post. This means that when the page is reloaded, Alexandrite goes to that page instead of the active feed. In the above screenshot, I was browsing all, but refreshing the page left me on the post that was active.

Perhaps a fix might be to append the active post to the URL? Something like:

https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/all#post/5936117

The linked post and discussion from the Photon dev re: the lemmy 0.19 release got me thinking about how Alexandrite will handle the migration since the release includes breaking changes.

@sheodox@lemmy.world thoughts?

Am I misremembering or didn't there used to be a way to block users in Alexandrite...from their profile I think? I don't see a button for it now. I can block them in Eternity on mobile though.

While I appreciate being able to block individual communities, I feel like being able to block while instances would be really helpful.

I've been away on vacation but I'm back with a new release of Alexandrite!

The mod log is now implemented! At the moment you can see a community's modlog from the top of the community sidebar, and the instance modlog from the bottom of the instance sidebar (I'll likely change where these links are at some point). Now moderators should be able to do even more stuff without leaving Alexandrite.

Additionally there's a link to the modlog when viewing a user's profile (also in the sidebar), which lets you see the mod actions that have been performed on them. This should help moderators identify problematic users.

In both cases, you will see a content warning screen before being redirected to the actual modlog, but you can disable this for either all communities or for the ones you moderate in

One of the interaction menu options (where "Cross-post / Send Message / Report Post / Block user / Block Community" live)
OR (preferably)
perhaps even one of the external buttons (next to Comment / Save / Original Post -OR- next to Upvote / Downvote)
should be the ability to either hide or collapse a given post so the things you've already seen take up less screen space
(but shouldn't be permanently lost to you so you can go back to something if you decide you want to look at it again)

Also, apologies if this is already suggested, I tried to search, and either it isn't there or the search function isn't very good.

Just some quick features!

When creating a post there's now a button to suggest a title based on the URL you entered. Just enter a URL then click "Suggest Title"

Then if you want to use that title hit the button!

You can create a post without first visiting the community by clicking the new "+" button in the header. The menu looks a little bit empty right now, but I'll add more stuff here later.

Also:

• Added the ability to edit/delete/report private messages
• Links to external sites in markdown now open in a new tab
• If you have the "Ke

I've been loving Alexandrite, it's my go-to recommendation for Lemmy on desktop. Keep up the great work!