I am still around, but I've always been a lurker. Just saw the notification so I'm a couple days late. I do see mentions!
If it works like blocking works for users/communities, posts from blocked instances shouldn't show up in Alexandrite too.
Yep, this is a bug I'm aware of, for what it's worth there's also an issue on Github someone reported this in. You can track it here.
Yep, I would like to do that at some point, just haven't been working on Alexandrite all that much lately, but it's still on my todo list!
Card view has been out for quite a while! There's a little dropdown in the top right of the feed that lets you switch, otherwise you can find it in the settings as "Feed Post Layout".
Actually it sounds like it might be possible to keep things backwards compatible so I'll attempt to make it work for both versions. The 0.19 announcement post mentions it should be possible to stay backwards compatible.
Oops forgot to post links, I edited the post.
I host Alexandrite at https://alexandrite.app/ and several instances also host Alexandrite on their own domains, like https://a.lemmy.world
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