Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.
DraconicNEO
flamingo-cant-draw
travis-jeans
- Add Verdana and Arimo fonts to Litely and Darkly variables file before Helvetica (Issue 1537)
- Improve colour contrast of the mini-overlay in the top right corner of link or image post thumbnails
- Upvote, downvote, view source, and favorite icons become larger when pressed to improve visibility on grayscale screens
- Improve screenreader accessibility by adding a main element to more pages (issue #2891)
dessalines
- Been working on getting lemmy-ui up to date for 1.0.0 .
- Extracting pagination cursor utils into a trait.
Nutomic
- Removing aggregates tables (fixes #4869)
- Enable english for all users to fix language issues
- Ignore accept-language header if not site languages are specified
- Add more options for image uploads
- Use connection url to configure email (fixes #5472)
- Use version from git to indicate unreleased changes
- Add config option to enable json logging
- Also search url field by default
- Fix federation of unban action (fixes #5454)
- Get rid of
Option<Vec<_>>in api structs (fixes #2820)
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This is most likely cached images. For example emojis from your instance or other instances you’ve viewed as well as maybe other images but definitely emojis. Possibly other things like the images in post thumbnails which helps reduce costs by ensuring your instance doesn’t have to re-send you the same images over and over again each time you close the browser.
Lemmy doesn’t generate enough content yet daily that most people who check in twice a day and scroll a bit through pages won’t almost certainly encounter several posts with images they’ve already seen before. I’ve had many cases where just a bit of scrolling brings up 3-4 day old posts I’ve seen before so caching associated images could save in cases like those at least 3-4 transfers of those images per user which adds up for a non-profit no ads service like lemmy.