We just added Alexandrite to the server, it’s an alternative desktop UI for Lemmy created by Sheodox who worked tirelessly to make the necessary changes to we could host it ourselves here. So go to https://a.lemmy.world and have a look!
He continues to update it constantly, you can follow the development on his github page or in his community. If you like what you see and want to support him, why not buy him a coffee? :)
For those who don’t have Lemmy World as their home instance and want to use Alexandrite, either ask your instance admins to add it or go to https://alexandrite.app!
Edit: I should probably have mentioned that Alexandrite is meant for desktop!
I want to caution that every new ui is a potential security risk. When it’s a mobile app then it’s entirely on the user to decide if they trust it, but when it’s hosted the host is implicitly giving a seal of approval so I think at least a bit of a code audit should be done, especially since xss is much more of a risk on the web.
There’s already been one security breach on the default Lemmy skin, so I think it would be a good idea to do an audit for every new hosted ui and include a section for it on these posts. You don’t necessarily need to crawl through every line of course, but it’d be good to cover what framework and rendering engine it uses and acknowledge any risks associated with them.
We have the devs of all but one of the alternative UI’s on our discord server. We try to provide options for our users as well as give some extra exposure to the Lemmy developers community by hosting these on LW. It’s actually pretty cool to see that devs from different apps are going through each other’s code and are being helpful. And other community members are actively helping the developers test (and request) new features.
So that is one of the things that we did to “play safe”. But I understand your concern and I’ll have a talk with the team how we can organise something like a code review of the UI’s we host.
We have one more UI to be announced soon. And that will most likely be the last one we will add.
Such a nice interface!
That’s how it should work! Click on post and instantly see the content and comments, without loading a whole page
Wow, thank you. I acutally was hoping you were going to add this becasue Alexandrite is the best desktop UI for Lemmy so far.
It also means Lemmy.world is turning into the best instance already because they’re the most user-friendly and customizable one.
Great work!
FYI: I got rated limited on the first link but the second time worked right away. There might be some glitch there.
I’d just like to say that some of us smaller instances have had both old.* style and Alexandrite active for a a few weeks ;)
- old.lastname.nz (0.18.3 has broken this for now)
- my.lastname.nz
Well maybe not.
I guess ill have to look at why, it works from home
Great work Sheodox. Its beautiful!
Thank you for all your hard work.
Huh, as soon as I went to the link I got banned by the server admin and rate limited?
Rate limits are being tweaked to combat ddos. You might experience some issues while they are being optimised. Apologies
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Unusable in mobile, which in this day is rather big oversight.
Yes, that’s mentioned twice in the announcement. Bit of an oversight that you missed that 😁
“meant for the desktop” and “unusable on mobile” are 2 very different things.
Couldn’t agree more and the way the admin replied to you is far from elegant.
Meant for the desktop means it’s not meant for anything else. It’s mentioned twice and if you read this thread you see that both myself and the developer made some comments about it already.
If you want to have something that works well on mobile either stick with the default UI, check out Voyager at https://m.lemmy.world or try Photon at https://photon.xylight.dev. We provide options and you make the choice if that works for you or not.
Yes, I’ve read the original post. I’ve also read the reply, where your second sentence ironically demeans the user’s opinion. You can think it but certainly shouldn’t write it, as an admin.
This is such a huge improvement over the base Lemmy theme. I just need a light theme now!
This, dark themes are gross. You can change the hue but not make a light theme?
While I absolutely 100% disagree, I respect your preference and your ability to achieve it.
What I really want is a design that shows me twice as many posts at a time, there’s too much wasted space.
If you want old reddit, just use https://old.lemmy.world
That’s pretty handy to know.
But I kinda like the way Alexandrite looks, I just wish it was more compact.
Compact, like this? https://photon.xylight.dev/c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !selfhosted@lemmy.world
I agree. I hate the trend of moving away from information density. It may seem silly, but it’s the number one reason I can’t use an iPhone.
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.
I agree. For now, as I find everything to be a bit too big, I put the zoom at 90% in my browser.
I wish my browser would remember zoom settings for different sites.
Are you on Firefox? I use an extension called PagezoomWE or something like that. It remembers the zoom level for you.
Vivaldi.
wow, this ui is sick :)
Is there a way to disable the community sidebar when opening a post?
Yes, you can click on the “Toggle sidebar” button on the top right
I like this very much, so much indeed that I would like to be able to install it as a web application on my phone like I was able to do with Photon (install button is not showing up however)
I love the side-by-side view. No more opening posts in new tabs for me.
