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!
That seems to work really well. I logged in as a few of my accounts and was able to navigate around, interact with content etc. Confirmed that profile information is isolated and doesn’t spill over between them.
I’d second the above request for different hues per account, just to make it more obvious which one you’re looking at. Otherwise, this will be an awesome addition that will make lemmy.world’s regular afternoon breaks more bearable ;)