Figured it was time for another status update. Will try to keep it brief.
System/Infrastructure Status
We are within allowances for all metered resources (bandwidth, disk, etc) and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. Translated: it still isn’t costing me any extra money to host DubVee.
Image Uploads Have Been Re-Enabled (With Limits)
Image uploads have been re-enabled but with a limit of 150kb. This is mostly to support setting your profile avatars, but I don’t have enough granular control to limit it to just that purpose. As such, you can add images to posts/comments as long as the file you’re uploading is less than 150KB.
Consolidating Lemmy Frontends
For quite some time, I’ve offered just about every alternative Lemmy front-end available. Logs have shown some to never be used, including by me. To simplify administration, I’ve removed Voyager and Photon from the offerings.
The remaining options are:
If there are any promising newcomers, I’m open to considering them. Nothing against Voyager app or its dev team. It’s just that no one was using it, and I’m in housecleaning mode.
New Default UI
If you’ve noticed the main DubVee interface is much more sleek and elegant, it’s because we’ve demoted Lemmy-UI from the apex domain and promoted Tesseract to be the new default. Lemmy-UI is still available at a subdomain (lemmy.dubvee.org) if you prefer to use that.
Tesseract used to be my custom build of Photon until I decided to make it an official fork so I could do larger, more comprehensive changes (backporting my customizations to each upstream release was something of a bitch).
For that reason, there’s little need to continue hosting Photon which is why it was also removed from the offerings. You can learn more about Tesseract on its GitHub page or ask questions in the Tesseract Support Channel community.
Thoughts, opinions, gripes, bugs? Leave 'em below.