We added an extra UI for our users. Photon by Xylight is an interface with a sleek, modern look and has all the bells and whistles you would need. Moderator tools included! You can access the UI from https://photon.lemmy.world.
Visit Photon’s project page on github or get in touch with the developer in the [email protected] community. If you want to use photon on other instances you can do so from https://phtn.app.
Update: @Xylight has set up a donation link so if you like photon as much as I do, show him some love! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xylight
The fact that the login UI has username, password, and 2FA code all on one screen means this immediately wins. I hate this new trend of “put in your email, now go to another screen, put in your password, now go to another screen…” Ugh. My password manager can autofill more than one box at a time, you know!
I don’t know why websites do that, it doesn’t look better, is probably more confusing and in general just slower for everyone
It’s a small piece of a security gate to slow down bots trying to login
Its probably also more difficult to program the functionality into multiple pages as well.
I’ve never seen this separated into multiple actual pages. As long the “multiple pages” are done in JavaScript, they don’t add much complexity.
It allows you to direct users with specific usernames/domains to specific login pages. For example for Single Sign on.
Maybe I’m confusing instances but I was almost positive they all have all those on the main screen?
Not 2fa code. The Lemmy apps have all of those on the sign up page, and so do alternative UIs
DAAYYYUUUMMM. That is stunning! Lemmy should make this theme the default across the verse!
Of all the new test UIs, I’ve enjoyed this one the most so far
Need to add an easy way to open images in full size.
This UI is very good for desktop users , It solves the problem of official UI . it does not makes sense to not show bigger images in posts in official web UI . Thumbnail views are great when you are searching for stuff , not when you want to actively read posts while scrolling.
This makes distinguishing between nested comments much easier IMO. That’s been my biggest gripe with the default UI so major thanks to the dev!
Does it support infinite scrolling?
you could have tried yourself but there is a “Load More” button
Unfortunately no due to an issue with sveltekit’s router :/
i might make this an SPA soon which will support infinite scrolling though.
Please keep the paged view as an option though. Helps me keep up with where I was
if you’re getting a 502 on photon.lemmy.world, you can still try Photon at phtn.app
I love your project so much!
Ok this is my new main way to access Lemmy on both desktop and mobile. Beautiful job.
*edit: After a little bit of using it, I’ll probably stick with it for mobile for a while longer, but I’m going back to the default lemmy GUI for desktop.
Where can I find full list of installed alternative UIs?
I want to know this too, but here are all the front-ends I know of:
Can we just take a minute to appreciate that we’re on a platform supporting so many different frontends?
In the sidebar on the LW main page
Haven’t seen anyone else mention this yet, but this seems to be the only app (installed as PWA) that has mod options. Well done!
Looks fantastic, thanks to the dev for their great work on this!
There’s been a lot of lemmy web UIs as of late, but I think this is my favorite so far.
Very nice. I’ve been using the various apps but so far nothing has really stuck so I’ll probably just stay with the web version.
Too much text. I much prefer a compact view so I can easily scroll past posts that are irrelevant to me