This is a complete, ground-up rework and recreation of Argon. The older version was extremely clunky, slow, and was really difficult to work with due to questionable code decisions. This rework should hopefully feel a bit nicer and function better, and will allow me to more easily add features.
I mean, I’m just going off of vibes, hopes, and dreams, but Argon should now feel much faster than before. A lot of the functionality should be optimized, and I’ve switched over to a better framework, Astro, which should be more optimized for how Argon works.
Before, the tag input (search bar, etc) was incredibly clunky and barely held together by duck tape and bubble gum. Now, I’m using an actually good search bar that should be a lot nicer to use and actually work better and more consistently. Also, it has chips which I always wanted but couldn’t figure out how to do.
Now, in the Tags List page, there’s a short little blurb explaining everything you need to know about tags. APPARENTLY, not having any kind of explanation or description led to a lot of people getting confused and needing to ask me for help. Who’d’ve thunk it.
I figured it’d be nice to have a page with all the changelogs, rather than just pinning changelog messages repeatedly in the Argon thread in the Discord.
I found the Upload page to be… lacking, to say the least. It was incredibly clunky and lacking many features. The most important feature being that you couldn’t specify tags upon uploading, but had to edit the post afterwards to add tags. Anyways, you can do that now, and with a new and improved menu.
The options menu has now gotten a HUGE overhaul, with much more functionality. With categories, more option types, descriptions, and an over-all nicer UI, the options menu is now much, much better… for the two people who bothered even opening it.
Added a tags list page. Here, every tag is listed, sorted by their types and usage count. This is to be used as a reference for what tags are currently used for when you’re tagging a post.
You can now press a button while on a post’s page to bookmark it! This saves it into your bookmarks, which can be viewed by pressing the bookmark button on the home page.
Argon now (barely) supports mobile. Keep in mind this is just very barely functional, but just enough to get Kace to shut up for now.
Not sure what to search for? Feeling lucky? Now there’s a button to take you to a completely random post.
The options menu can be used to configure Argon to your liking. No longer will you be plagued by porn jumpscares.
When adding a tag, now you can put ’!’ at the start to mark it as unsafe. This will cause the post to be treated as if it were NSFW.
Now you can click on autocomplete suggestion in order to add it to your search. Before, only arrow keys and enter could be used to interact with the autocomplete.
Clicking on the “logo” (if you can call it that) now refreshes the page, which will clear the search and bring you back to the main page
I FINALLY was able to finish Argon enough to actually release a version out into the wild. Have fun and here be dragons.