This is the first quality update for Planet. In this release, we focus on making the software more stable, easier to use, and cleaning up the underlying codebase.
- Download: Planet 0.21.0
New Welcome Screen
Upon starting the app, you will now see a new welcome screen that gives you a brief introduction to features. There's also a Follow Featured button to let you follow featured content sources.
Pixel Nomad
Pixel Nomad is a new site avatar set designed by Ann. You can click the smile face on the toolbar and select one as your site avatar.
Codebase
We cleaned up most compile warnings in the codebase, and optimized handling of some multithread scenarios. Overall, you should feel the app is more snappy.
Planet is an open-source native macOS app built with SwiftUI. If you are interested, here is our source code repo:
https://github.com/Planetable/Planet
Miscellaneous Improvements
- Added icons for the most used menu items when you right-click a Planet in the sidebar.
- Added a new form for setting
.well-known/farcaster.jsonfor Farcaster Mini App. - Improved stability when handling sleep/awake.
- It is faster now to follow Planets with ENS addresses.
- ipfs2.eth.limo is removed as an option for a public gateway as it is no longer working.
- Set the IPFS swarm connections to a lower value so the server uses fewer resources.