Or find and replace all the periods with ones that are slightly larger font.

Hey, just wanted to let you know this should be fixed now!

There are a few moving parts here: instances have a list of all languages it knows about, admins can restrict what can be used on the site ("discussion languages"), and communities can further restrict what languages they allow (if no mods speak Swedish, no use allowing it because you can't moderate it), and on top of that you can select which languages you use in Lemmy's settings. Alexandrite now respects all these settings/restrictions.

Some communities only allow posting in "Undetermined", and Alexandrite defaults to selecting "English", so if it was in one of those communities that's why you were having issues. Should be good now though.

Some communities can restrict which languages you're allowed to post in, and I haven't yet made Alexandrite respect that list, I imagine that's what you're running into. Fixing this is on my todo list!

I'm planning on adding alternate post styles in the (hopefully near) future. A more compact style is one of the styles I want to add.

There's an option in the settings that makes the left sidebar not auto-hide if you just want to always be able to see them.

I assume there’s an API to allow individuals to develop their own front end if they wanted? Is there any documentation to this end?

Yes there's an API (docs here), but the docs are little more than type definitions right now so it takes a bit of digging to figure out what you're meant to do. You can look through all the methods on the LemmyHttp section of the docs, and watch the network tab in your browser's dev tools to figure out which APIs are called.

Did you sign in on there? The login session on lemmy.world and a.lemmy.world isn't shared, so you'll need to login on a.lemmy.world to post/comment on there.

Thanks! :)

I do definitely want to make it work on mobile at some point! It'll probably be a while though.

Yep, I'm actually working on making those changes now.

There's a slider in the settings for the hue used for all the background/borders/text etc, so you can change it from purple to other colors, like:

Eventually I plan on adding more customization so you can change the colors of links/votes, and I need to make a light theme because so many people want that too.

(dev here) Sorry! The post forgot to mention Alexandrite is meant to be a alternate UI for desktop. There are a lot of issues if you try using it on mobile at the moment, because I haven't done the work to support it yet. I would keep using whatever you've been using on mobile.