i fixed it

I hate google as much as the next guy but ya must admit Chromium is quite fast

I know some optimization techniques and will get to it soon.

Photon uses svelte which is pretty fast. Not sure what's going on with your phone. It could be Firefox, as I have a very smooth experience with Chrome on a Google Pixel 6.

Edit: tried it out on Firefox and it’s slow as heck. It could be that Firefox is just slow? It seems vger.app is fine though…

Next update will be a big optimization update.

You can install photon as a PWA, which is basically an app. On the website, click the three dots and click “install as app”

The server and the client render differently.

If SSR is enabled, the initial page load will be loaded by the server then sent to the client. Then, the client router will take over and load pages itself after that.

PUBLIC_INSTANCE_URL is the instance URL for photon to use. Sometimes, you might want the server to use something like localhost, so you can make the server have a different instance URL than the client.

While I believe that this may be a hostile decision, it was inevitable. A lot of YouTube's revenue comes from ads. Use piped or something

You can ban them (if you’re an admin), but the ban won’t federate to other instances.

Update: fixed in v1.18.0! making an update post now!

Thanks for all that you do! I donated :>

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