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!
That’s rather nice looking! I might have to deploy this and try it out on my instance.
Thanks for adding these UIs as an alternative. Especially m.lemmy.world, it feels like a native app.
The m. Is voyager app. You can actually make a shortcut on your phone and it turns into an app.
Also an app app now, available in beta.
Wow! Thanks! Installed to my ever growing folder of Lemmy/Kbin apps
Using it right now! But since I do, I wonder how (why) this works? What keyword would help me find info about that?
Progressive web apps!
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)
Yooo, this is dope. Looks great, responsive, and good use of screen space. I love the retractable sidebar.
Anything that gets nearer to a RES-like experience from Reddit is an absolute plus. This UI is brilliant.
yes, goes well together with Voyager. From app subdomain I route mobile clients to Voyager and desktop to Alexandrite, feels amazing.
The genius thing about it is the way it fully utilizes the whole width of a display, with the post content appearing in between the list of posts and the sidebar. I haven’t seen another Lemmy/Kbin UI that does this.
It might only be suitable for widescreen desktop use, but it does that one thing very well.
It definitely could use a bit of work on the mobile screen sizes, but it looks very promising!
Hell, I’m a web developer, maybe I’ll try to contribute.
There is https://old.lemmy.world, which I am using. It even has a dark mode! It does have a few missing features. The message field doesn’t have any formatting buttons, you can’t change the shortcuts up top, the submissions don’t have alternating colors (but comments do!), and the preview button for messages sends your message to the server, which breaks often and deletes your message.
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I assume there’s an API to allow individuals to develop their own front end if they wanted? Is there any documentation to this end?
Yes there’s an API (docs here), but the docs are little more than type definitions right now so it takes a bit of digging to figure out what you’re meant to do. You can look through all the methods on the LemmyHttp section of the docs, and watch the network tab in your browser’s dev tools to figure out which APIs are called.
Yeah there is a lot of push back for full API documentation. I get it, they want to move fast and not have to rebuild thier old CI tool. But being open source its going to stifle development in the long run. I almost started building my own front end for Lemmy a month ago when there was only Jerboa but I didn’t like some of the decisions of the core devs and I didn’t want an ongoing battle to keep a front end up to date when changes are made.
I’m very appreciative to the Lemmy devs and all the app builders but I’m also lazy and perfectionist when it comes to coding in my free time.
I gave it a try and that UI is not for me. I’ll keep using old.lemmy.world
I agree completely.
I should probably have mentioned that Alexandrite is meant for desktop!
I’m so confused by this.
I’m so confused by this.
as in, desktop pc’s, laptops etc, NOT mobile
What’s a computer?
Maybe in perspective of website here, something that has wider display (horizontally) and not display that are longer(vertically) ?
Is there a post with all the different enabled UIs?
They are listed in the sidebar
Thank you sir!
I don’t see it. Where is it?
go to the homepage: https://lemmy.world/
it’s on the section, bottom of the page. There are 4 links, 3 of them are different UIs:
https://status.lemmy.world/ - Lemmy World Status
https://a.lemmy.world - Alexandrite UI
https://m.lemmy.world - Voyager mobile UI
https://old.lemmy.world - A familiar UI
Whoa, reading this title was really trippy.
Very cool! Can you add this to the list o’ themes in the settings please?
This not just a theme, it is a totally different front end to Lemmy. You can only use by going to the url given.
I love the Alexandrite UI
Looks good! Sadly I can’t seem to login with my lemmy.dbzer0.com account though.
No, this is only for lemmy.world accounts but you can go to alexandrite.app and login there with any instance account.
Yes I’m aware; I did that. Couldn’t login.
I like the UI so much more than the standard Lemmy. This should be the default UI. Hopefully he makes a light version.
I need a light version.
Very nice, wonder if anyone will make a large media feed version of lemmy for desktop OS. I get the love of old.reddit but personally, I like a large image/video feed like in the apps.
Very nice looking
Wow that is really cool, I hope you can add photon https://photon.xylight.dev/ at some point, it is super beautiful too
Just go to settings and change the instance
I mean, same with Alexandrite.
+1 for this. I’m also excited to see photon being implemented as one of the frontends. Exciting times! And kudos to all the people working behind the scenes. Your works are really appreciated 😊
