p.d-blog/content/posts/20240709-tesseract.md

---
title: "New alternate frontend: Tesseract. Photon now semi-supported"
slug: "tesseract-2024"
date: 2024-07-10
author: "Ategon"
categories:
  - Programming.Dev
tags:
  - Tesseract
  - Photon
  - Release
  - Alternate Frontend
---

We now have a new alternate frontend for our instance, Tesseract!

Tesseract is a fork of Photon with some differences displayed on the [project's GitHub page](https://github.com/asimons04/tesseract).

The overall main features being:

- Full Media Support in Feed and Posts
- Community Browser / Enhanced Discovery
- Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC) Integration
- Fediseer Integration
- Distinguished and Sticky Comments
- Keyword Filtering
- Multiple Account Support
- Improved Moderation Tools

You can find the Tesseract frontend at https://t.programming.dev

Along with this, Photon is currently only semi-supported as opposed to being one of our main Alternate Frontends. Due to a recent swap in Photon's tooling we are unable to update to later versions of Photon. As such, for now the alternate frontend will exist frozen and will continue to exist in the future until either: a new lemmy version breaks that version of the frontend or the issues are fixed and upgrading becomes possible again.
Create tesseract release post 2024-07-09 19:49:51 +00:00			`---`
			`title: "New alternate frontend: Tesseract. Photon now semi-supported"`
			`slug: "tesseract-2024"`
Update date 2024-07-10 17:22:56 +00:00			`date: 2024-07-10`
Create tesseract release post 2024-07-09 19:49:51 +00:00			`author: "Ategon"`
			`categories:`
			`- Programming.Dev`
			`tags:`
			`- Tesseract`
			`- Photon`
			`- Release`
			`- Alternate Frontend`
			`---`

Add tesseract post 2024-07-10 17:22:42 +00:00			`We now have a new alternate frontend for our instance, Tesseract!`
Create tesseract release post 2024-07-09 19:49:51 +00:00
Add tesseract post 2024-07-10 17:22:42 +00:00			`Tesseract is a fork of Photon with some differences displayed on the [project's GitHub page](https://github.com/asimons04/tesseract).`

			`The overall main features being:`
Create tesseract release post 2024-07-09 19:49:51 +00:00
			`- Full Media Support in Feed and Posts`
			`- Community Browser / Enhanced Discovery`
			`- Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC) Integration`
			`- Fediseer Integration`
			`- Distinguished and Sticky Comments`
			`- Keyword Filtering`
			`- Multiple Account Support`
Add tesseract post 2024-07-10 17:22:42 +00:00			`- Improved Moderation Tools`
Create tesseract release post 2024-07-09 19:49:51 +00:00
Add tesseract post 2024-07-10 17:22:42 +00:00			`You can find the Tesseract frontend at https://t.programming.dev`
Create tesseract release post 2024-07-09 19:49:51 +00:00
Add tesseract post 2024-07-10 17:22:42 +00:00			`Along with this, Photon is currently only semi-supported as opposed to being one of our main Alternate Frontends. Due to a recent swap in Photon's tooling we are unable to update to later versions of Photon. As such, for now the alternate frontend will exist frozen and will continue to exist in the future until either: a new lemmy version breaks that version of the frontend or the issues are fixed and upgrading becomes possible again.`