EDIT: This is now released on the main site, enjoy!
Original post:
I’ve got some big stuff I’m planning on releasing either later tonight or tomorrow, and I wanted some testers if anyone’s willing! The link is at the end of the post.
The instance you’re browsing is now in the page url, so if you’re logged in on lemmy.world, you’ll be (once released) on https://alexandrite.app/lemmy.world/.... Now you can share links directly to Alexandrite to friends and they can view it without needing to set a home instance anymore.
But the real cool feature is a new account switcher! This lets you switch between all of your accounts on the instance you’re browsing! You can also set a default account to use for that instance. Now you could be logged in on multiple accounts across multiple instances just in different browser tabs if you wanted.
Two clicks to switch which instance you’re using (based on what accounts you have)
If you have accounts on more than one instance you can pick which instance you see by default when you go to https://alexandrite.app with no instance in the url, or chose to login on any of the accounts you’ve signed in as.
You’ll need to login again because it’s a new url, but I wrote some code to migrate to the new way I’m handling accounts so you won’t be logged out when this is all released.
Please let me know if you find any bugs!
One very minor issue I’ve noticed.
When I switch account, a red rectangle error message appears in the top-right syaing “Network Error”. It’s very short lived and doesn’t seem to be accompanied by any actual errors or problems.
Yeah I haven’t been able to figure out why that happens. For some reason when you switch it tries reloading some data about the instance and because it’s navigating away it just gets cancelled immediately and you see the error popup. I’ll try and figure out what’s causing that before I release.
I take it back, I took another look after remembering I had similar issues earlier and found the issue, should be fixed now!