Pushed an update to https://beta.pangora.social that has the changes ive made to the site since the last alpha

Updates include:

• Lists of active and new communities on the sidebar
• Community names can have custom gradients
• The post feeds works with javascript disabled
• The posts in the post feed now have less transparency and the background on the post previews have less transparency
• The post previews have been centered more
• The URL now changes to match the post when looking at a post preview
• A system theme has been added to the theme switcher and should be set by default
• The icons in the post feed scope & sort buttons now are not trapped inside the button
• The community view now allows you to sort posts
• You can now view posts from multiple communities
• code block text size has been made larger (might not work for comments)

Viewing posts from multiple communities

You can view posts from multiple communities at once by setting them all in the url. Separate each community by a plus.

for example https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming+opensource will show you posts from both programming and opensource

If you want to add in a community in another instance add it in in the format community@domain

e.g. https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming+opensource+technology@lemmy.world+opensource@lemmy.ml

Wildcard

You can put a wildcard (star symbol *) instead of the instance domain to search for that community name in all instances

• note that this will only pull from the biggest instances for now due to limitations from this being only in the frontend currently

e.g. https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming@* will get all communities named programming in different instances

Wildcard instance exceptions

You can make a wildcard ignore a certain instance by first adding a minus sign after the wildcard (-) to mark a new rule, then an exclamation mark (!) to mark a negation, and then the instance domain

e.g. https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming@*-!programming.dev-!lemmy.zip will get all communities named programming in different instances except for the ones in programming.dev and lemmy.zip

Composition

You can combine the above as much as you want to get complex queries. You may run into rate limits if you add an extremely large amount of communities though

Example Query

WARNING

This is implemented only in the frontend currently so certain aspects will be broken

Hot and active sorts for multiple communities will not work