[Suggestion] Option to hide the carousel view in Index

[PasserDreamer]

Please describe your suggestion, and the problem it'd solve.
Please add an option for show/hide "ancient chinese lithographies" in the settings.
Thanks.

[Difegue]

👋 Do you mean hiding the carousel UI altogether? The ancient lithographies thing is for the table/thumbnail view below it.

I don't plan on adding a toggle to remove the carousel for the time being since it doesn't take too much space when collapsed.
If you don't find it useful however, I'd like to hear opinions on how it could be improved/more useful, as it is still quite new.

[PasserDreamer]

Yes, I personally prefer simple clean and sad panda style UI.
The carousel is more like a complicated design IMO.

[pandafeliz]

the carousel seems to choke if you have a lot of untagged archives since it loads them all, and appears to be the same for the new filter, I remember the time I tried it caused a memory leak in the browser since I have around 3k or so archives still marked with the new tag.

I tried hiding it but it seems it still loads the data even collapsed and it doesn't remember the hiding status when you use the search.

[AbyssalMonkey]

I tried hiding it but ... it doesn't remember the hiding status when you use the search.

This is the most annoying thing to me. I use LRR to act as a host for my phone, and use external readers, since unfortunately, phone browsers are still prone to breaking at the slightest touch compared to desktop browsers and dedicated phone apps. As a result, if I'm using the LRR webapp, it's purely for database management, and the carousel is not helpful with that. So having to collapse it every time I perform a search is tedious.

[Difegue]

As of the latest commit, collapsing the carousel will now be remembered on further loads (I should've added this on initial release, but hindsight is 10/10 as they say), and the required API endpoints won't be called if it's collapsed/uninitialized.

As mentioned before, I don't plan on adding functionality to hide the carousel altogether; The redesigned index takes less vertical space than the previous version even with it present. You can use custom CSS on your end if you really want it gone I guess!