I’ll probably end up waiting until one of the popular instances migrates to 0.19, then I’ll quickly work on migrating to 0.19 and release a new version. The main alexandrite.app site will use the 0.19 version once lemmy.world updates, because that’s its default instance. Exact specifics might change depending on how the rollout goes and how much free time I have around then, so this might change. If Alexandrite updates before your server updates you might just have to use the default UI until your instance updates.

For self-hosters who want to wait on 0.19, Alexandrite’s releases have version numbers nowdays so instead of using the latest docker tag, I’d recommend using the last non-0.19 version until you upgrade Lemmy.

The PR says “Analogous to the existing community block functionality, users can also block instances. This means that all content from communities which are hosted there is hidden. Posts from users of blocked instances are still visible in other places.” So it sounds like what you’re looking for.

It should be coming soon, support for it is almost in Lemmy, once that’s released and servers are updated so I can test it I’ll add it ASAP! This is the Lemmy PR I’m waiting on.

You can link to communities/users by typing the full name/instance stuff out, but I don’t have any search/auto-complete stuff for either of those yet.

There is a lemmy setting to hide read posts fwiw, but it’s probably not exactly what you’re looking for. I’ve been thinking of making a toggle for it more accessible from the feed, but a lemmy feature to hide individual posts like you could on reddit would be nicest.

I’ve been considering something similar to that too, I’ll give it some more thought. Might end up switching those textboxes around. Also when I someday am able to add image uploading I might need to move things around anyway so anything here could change lol

Sweet, thanks for letting me know! This is definitely the kind of bug I like getting fixed ASAP!

Could you give me a little more detail on what problem this solves for you? I’m not opposed to the idea, just want to understand more. What’s inconvenient about the way it works now, and how would you use the site differently if this feature was added?

I went back and forth on this and I’m not sure what’s best. I think I’d prefer doing it automatically, but I also didn’t want stuff on the page to move unexpectedly, because it’s really annoying when you’re trying to click somewhere but miss because stuff moved around. That’s why it only does things when you click.

Also, on the post creation form on Alexandrite I put the “Title” input first, but the official UI has the URL first, which maybe makes it simpler to create a UI to offer these extra options (and the archive links), so maybe I’d need to reorder them and think about stuff a bit more?

If you have any ideas for some other place to put the link’s title and the “use this title” button I’m all ears!

Just to confirm, the issue you’re reporting is that NSFW images in the post list when using Cards are unblurred? I just released a fix for that, so let me know if you were having any other issues.

I totally meant for those to be blurred in the first place, but had run into issues during development and apparently forgot to go back and fix it, so no new setting either!