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+title: "New alternate frontend: Tesseract. Photon now semi-supported"
+slug: "tesseract-2024"
+date: 2024-07-09
+author: "Ategon"
+categories:
+  - Programming.Dev
+tags:
+  - Tesseract
+  - Photon
+  - Release
+  - Alternate Frontend
+---
+
+We now have a new alternate frontend for the instance, Tesseract! Tesseract is
+a fork of photon with some differences visible on the github page for it:
+https://github.com/asimons04/tesseract
+
+The main overall 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
+- Better Moderation Tools than Lemmy-UI
+
+You can find the frontend at https://t.programming.dev
+
+Along with this Photon is currently only semi-supported as opposed to being
+pushed as one of the main alternate frontends as we are unable to update to the
+most recent versions. There was a swap in some tooling which prevents hosting it
+on some versions of operating systems. For now the alternate frontend will exist
+frozen on a version and will in the future either break if a lemmy version
+breaks that version of the frontend or if the issues are fixed we will upgrade
+it and it will be fully supported again.