It’s not securely sandboxed like a Qube, but apps can have their permission to access files and such restricted. Malware can escape the sandbox, or apps may come with very permissive permissions.

Irrelevant but the embed thumbnail terrifies me. why is the android fuzzy

Padding is a very versatile thing in UI design, and none of it will make anything look terrible.

Even in your first example, the toolbar has slight padding on the edges and so do the buttons.

The reason there’s more padding now is because it makes it easier for new users to process everything.

Google UI devs will do anything but follow their own material guidelines

Just a tip, you can make those iamge links display inline by doing this:

![alt text (optional)](<image url>)

I like the layout but the design is worse, you have to reach even further up to access search. the colors also look slightly worse imo.

A feature that’s be nice is giving you a higher upload limit if you make your upload temporary.

photon doesn’t directly communicate with the backend, it’s not intended for that. but even then, lemmy-ui is almost entirely client side (for some reason) and it makes its calls to the API

<3

For mostly all of my app-launching things I always prefer searching for text than searching for an icon. In pixel launcher, I always use the app drawer search, but an even better solution is in something like Niagara launcher.

It looks like the state farm logo to me in small text.

I think you’ve got the entire thought of photon wrong. Photon is not an “app” that you “install”, it is essentially a website. The docker container includes a server runner, meant for instance owners to deploy photon on their own instance easily.

vger.app and alexandrite.app work the exact same way as photon for installation. You clone the app, build it, and run the server.

There is no team of “devs” who are out of touch with privacy, it’s just me. This is a web app to access Lemmy in a different UI, and it’d be pretty stupid to dedicate time to tracking people when I’ve got homework to do.

I could make a subdomain for phtn.app that does not proxy through cloudflare if you’d like.

9 crossposts is crazy

My PC is mostly foss, the exceptions being that I use YouTube and discord. still working on my phone though.

It’s just for receiving, like aliases.

Ads for a platform with political views that despise them. Ironic

What does Boost have over clients like Voyager?

Defenestrated is the best way to say removed Windows and I’m using that forever, thanks

• Hey, thanks! The official community for Photon is !photon@lemdro.id (lemdro.id has helped a lot with the project and feedback, so I decided they should be it’s home.)
• To search communities and only communities, you can either press the globe icon in the navbar (which is better for searching just communities), or you can use the search button and filter by communities.
• To join a community in Photon, you can click subscribe in the explore page (globe icon) or you can go to the community, click the three dots at the top right, and click subscribe. (On a wide enough screen, the subscribe button along with community info will be on the right.)

glad you like photon! :)