Alexandrite UI: https://a.lemmy.world

3 years ago by Antik 👾 to c/lemmyworld

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!

curious_illusions 49 points 3 years ago

Huh, as soon as I went to the link I got banned by the server admin and rate limited?

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antik 57 points 3 years ago

Rate limits are being tweaked to combat ddos. You might experience some issues while they are being optimised. Apologies

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p03locke 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I tried to reload the page because it already showed an error.

I did get a successful hit on the web page. It's good that they are finally tackling the screen width issue. It also comes with auto-reloads as well.

My only complaint is that the items are a bit too tall. It could be shrink down to a more compact space to fit more items per screen-full.

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miket 45 points 3 years ago

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.

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antik 16 points 3 years ago

Rate limits are currently being fine-tuned so yes there may be some issues at the moment while our team sorts things out

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BlueEther 2 points 3 years ago

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

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antik 2 points 3 years ago

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BlueEther 1 point 3 years ago

Well maybe not.

I guess ill have to look at why, it works from home

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alokir 29 points 3 years ago

Thanks for adding these UIs as an alternative. Especially m.lemmy.world, it feels like a native app.

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LazaroFilm 27 points 3 years ago

The m. Is voyager app. You can actually make a shortcut on your phone and it turns into an app.

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mtciii 11 points 3 years ago

Also an app app now, available in beta.

https://lemmy.world/post/2250485

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LazaroFilm 3 points 3 years ago

Wow! Thanks! Installed to my ever growing folder of Lemmy/Kbin apps

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Luftruessel 5 points 3 years ago

Using it right now! But since I do, I wonder how (why) this works? What keyword would help me find info about that?

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Carnelian 18 points 3 years ago

Progressive web apps!

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i_r_n00b 21 points 3 years ago

It's really great that you are moving so quickly and supporting your community in this way, but I wonder if all these front ends are potentially going to create a bit of a long term maintenance headache? How are we certain that they don't introduce any new vulnerabilities and how are we staying on top of those when they happen? I worry that each new frontend adds burden to an already small community for a potentially minor practical gain.

Don't get me wrong, you guys are doing awesome stuff, and I'm consistently impressed with this instance. That's just the first thing that comes to my head having done software for many years myself.

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antik 28 points 3 years ago

Maintenance in regards to updates is not an issue. All the extra frontends we added run in docker and are automatically updated twice a day to make sure we are always running the latest stable versions. All apps are using the Lemmy api's just like the 3rd party apps and should anything break we have ways to contact the developers.

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nix 4 points 3 years ago

How did you set them up to automatically update? Have you done a write up on how you set these up? Would be great for other admins to be able to do the same

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antik 11 points 3 years ago

We use docker compose in scripts and crontabs

/scripts/update-alexandrite.sh:

cd /opt/alexandrite
docker-compose pull
docker-compose down
docker-compose up -d

Then use crontab -e and add this line:

00 05,00 * * * bash /scripts/update-alexandrite.sh

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LukeSky53 3 points 3 years ago

Are you concerned at all with auto updating containers that some updates can break stuff?

I’ve had issues with watchtower and auto updating containers in the past breaking config files and stopping containers.

Changing the update rate in cron can help offset any broken / vulnerable updates that get pushed.

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nix 0 points 3 years ago

Sweet thanks, do you have this and scripts to keep the other front ends updated on GitHub somewhere?

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notun 20 points 3 years ago

What I really want is a design that shows me twice as many posts at a time, there's too much wasted space.

A comparison photo with old.reddit.

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shashi154263 25 points 3 years ago

If you want old reddit, just use https://old.lemmy.world

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notun 7 points 3 years ago

That's pretty handy to know.

But I kinda like the way Alexandrite looks, I just wish it was more compact.

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ruud 1 point 3 years ago

Compact, like this? https://photon.xylight.dev/...

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CommunityLinkFixer 3 points 3 years ago

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

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notun 3 points 3 years ago

Looks exactly the same size.

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sheodox 17 points 3 years ago

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.

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CharlestonChewbacca 5 points 3 years ago

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.

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clgoh 3 points 3 years ago

I agree. For now, as I find everything to be a bit too big, I put the zoom at 90% in my browser.

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notun 1 point 3 years ago

I wish my browser would remember zoom settings for different sites.

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setInner234 1 point 3 years ago

Are you on Firefox? I use an extension called PagezoomWE or something like that. It remembers the zoom level for you.

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notun 1 point 3 years ago

Vivaldi.

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eager_eagle 1 point 3 years ago

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CamelCase 19 points 3 years ago

That's how it should work! Click on post and instantly see the content and comments, without loading a whole page

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coconutxyz 17 points 3 years ago

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daninet 15 points 3 years ago

Am I missing smthing? If I open vygr or old I see posts. When I open a.lemmy I can only see a generic post about lemmy nothing else

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sheodox 19 points 3 years ago

(dev here) Sorry! The post forgot to mention Alexandrite is meant to be a alternate UI for desktop. There are a lot of issues if you try using it on mobile at the moment, because I haven't done the work to support it yet. I would keep using whatever you've been using on mobile.

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antik 8 points 3 years ago

Yes I should have mentioned that. I updated my post

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mtchristo 3 points 3 years ago

maybe it is because it is set by default to local, try clicking on all instead.

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daninet 8 points 3 years ago

I found the arrows that toggle sidebar and setting it to All shows this in android Firefox:

If I close the sidebar all I can see is this

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antik 2 points 3 years ago

It's actually more for desktop. I updated my post

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breadsmasher 15 points 3 years ago

Immediate rate limit. Opened home page, pressed communities.

Rate limited.

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antik 22 points 3 years ago

Rate limits are being tweaked to combat ddos. You might experience some issues while they are being optimised. Apologies

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Blaze 8 points 3 years ago

Thank you for your work!

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Regna 14 points 3 years ago

I want to add my praise to the heap.

I'm pretty happy with Voyager on mobile, but when writing something, it's not ideal.

The generic Lemmy UI is more than OK on desktop, but the lack of error code reporting to the user was frustrating, at times I tried to resubmit posts and comments and the spinning Submit button just kept on going, for some communities in particular. So I stopped posting in these communities.

Now, with Alexandrite, I feel like this is a good UI that I really like. And I love that you write out the background error message for why posting or commenting fails!

Really nice job!

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Katana314 3 points 3 years ago

Lack of error codes is something I see often even in professional website development. Even Windows has run into that issue now; Click button. Button loads. Button stops - no action. Or, the application just closes.

I think with the separation of product design and engineers in modern teams, it ends up being really hard for everyone to settle on a good path for errors on every single little thing - and including that in the design can make you "feel" your product is error prone, even if 99% of people never see any of those.

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Regna 2 points 3 years ago

Well pointed out.

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mkhopper 14 points 3 years ago

Anything that gets nearer to a RES-like experience from Reddit is an absolute plus. This UI is brilliant.

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aleph 9 points 3 years ago

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.

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oolong 4 points 3 years ago

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.

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reinar 5 points 3 years ago

yes, goes well together with Voyager. From app subdomain I route mobile clients to Voyager and desktop to Alexandrite, feels amazing.

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twotone 4 points 3 years ago

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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Shazbot 14 points 3 years ago

Just dropping in to say this UI is beautiful and the features are superb. Thank yous for all the lemmy world staff and Sheodox for the time and dedication!

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fidodo 14 points 3 years ago

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.

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antik 6 points 3 years ago

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.

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OrangeCorvus 12 points 3 years ago

I like the UI so much more than the standard Lemmy. This should be the default UI. Hopefully he makes a light version.

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orphiebaby 7 points 3 years ago

I need a light version.

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eager_eagle 12 points 3 years ago

I love the side-by-side view. No more opening posts in new tabs for me.

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mlemmer 11 points 3 years ago

Wow that is really cool, I hope you can add photon https://photon.xylight.dev/ at some point, it is super beautiful too

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DuskyRo 2 points 3 years ago

Just go to settings and change the instance

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Xylight 6 points 3 years ago

I mean, same with Alexandrite.

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Leyla 1 point 3 years ago

+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 😊

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AcesFullOfKings 11 points 3 years ago

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sheodox 5 points 3 years ago

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.

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MrPoopyButthole 4 points 3 years ago

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.

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MaximilianKohler 2 points 3 years ago

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.

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dimspace 4 points 3 years ago

I’m so confused by this.

as in, desktop pc's, laptops etc, NOT mobile

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NatoBoram 2 points 3 years ago

What's a computer?

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Leyla 1 point 3 years ago

Maybe in perspective of website here, something that has wider display (horizontally) and not display that are longer(vertically) ?

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MaximilianKohler 1 point 3 years ago

I meant that I'm on desktop and that UI is terrible for me. I would have assumed it was targeted towards mobile.

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NatoBoram 10 points 3 years ago

Seeing custom web UIs being deployed officially and directly on the same domain as Lemmy instances is incredibly encouraging. I wonder if my Leanish will be polished enough to be published that way eventually.

One can dream!

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mvmnts 10 points 3 years ago

This is such a huge improvement over the base Lemmy theme. I just need a light theme now!

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Falmarri -2 points 3 years ago

This, dark themes are gross. You can change the hue but not make a light theme?

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CharlestonChewbacca 5 points 3 years ago

While I absolutely 100% disagree, I respect your preference and your ability to achieve it.

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AndreTelevise 9 points 3 years ago

I'm in love! Smooth, modern, and simple. One thing to note - the "hue" option for the theme in the settings is not very obvious at first or comfortable. We need some kind of visible color pallete or some squares with color options.

Also, Ctrl+Enter should allow me to post my reply immediately, but it doesn't.

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Luckyfriend222 9 points 3 years ago

I love this, thanks.

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SpiceMerchant 9 points 3 years ago

As soon as I click on a link I get rate limited. That may need to get adjusted.

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ruud 4 points 3 years ago

Ah. Will look into that.

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ruud 4 points 3 years ago

Does this still happen?

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babeuh 1 point 3 years ago

I just had it happen

Edit: but now I can use it

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Dankry 1 point 3 years ago

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AustralianSimon 8 points 3 years ago

Is there a post with all the different enabled UIs?

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antik 7 points 3 years ago

They are listed in the sidebar

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AustralianSimon 3 points 3 years ago

Thank you sir!

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Hans5958 1 point 3 years ago

I don't see it. Where is it?

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ewe -1 points 3 years ago

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

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Alexandrite 8 points 3 years ago

Whoa, reading this title was really trippy.

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leraje 7 points 3 years ago

This is excellent news :) I've been using Alexandrite since u/sheodox announced it so I'm very pleased to see it added as a dedicated front end for .world :)

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Swarming 7 points 3 years ago

Such a nice interface!

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HiroNase 7 points 3 years ago

I love the Alexandrite UI

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UltraBlack 7 points 3 years ago

My experience:

First load errored out over ... something
Second page load: I'm greeted with a rate limit. Nice.
Load: finally worked

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necrxfagivs 1 point 3 years ago

Same for me.

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davetansley 7 points 3 years ago

Great stuff! I've been using Alexandrite for the last few weeks and it's become my default UI. I love that you can pin the navigation bar open and favourite communities (click on the icon to star it).

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gon 7 points 3 years ago

Looks fantastic!!

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Skepticpunk 7 points 3 years ago

Yooo, this is dope. Looks great, responsive, and good use of screen space. I love the retractable sidebar.

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MakeItCount 6 points 3 years ago

Looks great but really needs a light theme

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PeleSpirit 1 point 3 years ago

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Holyginz 2 points 3 years ago

I initially downvoted since I love dark theme, but changes to upvote because everyone has their preferences

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PeleSpirit 2 points 3 years ago

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Holyginz 2 points 3 years ago

For me the light theme hurts and tires out my eyes more over time.

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T156 0 points 3 years ago

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gon 6 points 3 years ago

Wow it looks amazing!!

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abominabledrh 6 points 3 years ago

Nice! Thank you.

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XIX 6 points 3 years ago

This is amazing.

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Double_A 6 points 3 years ago

I kinda like the general layout, but that color scheme is annoying. Can I change it somehow?

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sheodox 8 points 3 years ago

There's a slider in the settings for the hue used for all the background/borders/text etc, so you can change it from purple to other colors, like:

Eventually I plan on adding more customization so you can change the colors of links/votes, and I need to make a light theme because so many people want that too.

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leraje 5 points 3 years ago

Yep, just go to 'Settings' under the Profile icon, top right.

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SomethingBurger 4 points 3 years ago

You can change the colors but not remove them entirely. It's not possible to have it entirely white on black.

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nanny07 5 points 3 years ago

I like it but one thing I would change is the position of my subscribed community: from the left self-hiding sidebar to the righ always visible one

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sheodox 5 points 3 years ago

There's an option in the settings that makes the left sidebar not auto-hide if you just want to always be able to see them.

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nanny07 2 points 3 years ago

Wow, I didn't know that!

Thanks for share, now I like it even ore because with this option the post column is narrower

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nanny07 1 point 3 years ago

But I found a bug, it start hidden even with the option checked: you have to open it at least one time

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Nioxic 5 points 3 years ago

Great work Sheodox. Its beautiful!

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Techie 5 points 3 years ago

Looks really nice!

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null 5 points 3 years ago

rate limited wtf

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TrismegistusMx 5 points 3 years ago

Doesn't work. It says I'm temporarily banned.

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mayo -1 points 3 years ago

Turn off your vpn?

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drasticpotatoes 3 points 3 years ago

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TrismegistusMx 2 points 3 years ago

I don't use a VPN.

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mayo 4 points 3 years ago

Looks like they are rate limiting. I managed to get through by disabling VPN but I'm unable to comment.

It looks nice though. You can preview comments in a thread without having to reload the web page, same way you can with post images in the native app.

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Zana 2 points 3 years ago

I really wish a lot of websites wouldn't automatically block you if you have a vpn

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personalife 5 points 3 years ago

Says I'm rate limited, then on refresh, banned. I don't think any other person in my household uses lemmy.world at all, so I wonder if it's just the high amount of traffic going to it from Comcast users.

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mihnt 3 points 3 years ago

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antik 2 points 3 years ago

Should be better now!

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kokesh 1 point 3 years ago

Got the same, all fine after refresh.

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valen 5 points 3 years ago

And the developer is quick to add features. Highly recommended for desktop.

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orphiebaby 4 points 3 years ago

Looks great, but I need a light version. (Don't hate :P )

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davetansley 4 points 3 years ago

@antik Amazing! Alexandrite has become my absolute favourite way to browse lemmy over the last few weeks. Great to see it become part of .world!

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antik 9 points 3 years ago

Yep, loved it so much I contacted @sheodox@lemmy.world to help us add it to the instance. He added some changes to Selfhost, put it all in a docker container and made it all happen in a couple of days ❤️

I'm sure more admins will be adding it to their instance!

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gon 4 points 3 years ago

looks great!!

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kalanthil 4 points 3 years ago

Thank you for all your hard work.

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CrypticFawn 4 points 3 years ago

Looks good! Sadly I can't seem to login with my lemmy.dbzer0.com account though.

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antik 5 points 3 years ago

No, this is only for lemmy.world accounts but you can go to alexandrite.app and login there with any instance account.

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CrypticFawn 2 points 3 years ago

Yes I'm aware; I did that. Couldn't login.

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s0phia 4 points 3 years ago

Very nice looking

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dimspace 4 points 3 years ago

Working for me now.

just needs "alexandrite" in the header changing to lemmy.world i think, and maybe the logo changing

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sheodox 6 points 3 years ago

Yep, I'm actually working on making those changes now.

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worsedoughnut 4 points 3 years ago

Wow, I love this a lot. Initially chuckled at the theme color slider in the settings, but it's unironically a great way to edit that haha.

My instance (lemdro.id) has Photon as their modern look alternative, which also looks pretty sleek IMO, but I think I'll be using this going forward mostly because it's more desktop-looking than Photon's more mobile-centric layout.

Fantastic work on this, can't wait to see how it grows going forward.

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Xylight 1 point 3 years ago

Photon dev here, what's mobile-centric about it? I actually aimed for it to work well on both. The reason the pages don't span the whole distance is for legibility reasons.

I actually aimed for this to be desktop first, that's why i use buttons instead of gestures.

Your decision is good though, I personally think Alexandrite is much better than Photon.

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worsedoughnut 1 point 3 years ago

It definitely functions well on both, I don't mean to suggest that it's meant for mobile. But yeah, I think it's mostly the fact that all the content is only on the center 1/3 of my screen. To me, that just feels a lot like a mobile view compared to something that uses the whole area of the browser.

A lot of social sites on the modern web look this way now, and generally it's a result of them trying to prioritize mobile uses first, so when I see it anywhere now it's just a "oh, this is a mobile site" in my mind.

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Xylight 1 point 3 years ago

An option was added to make everything span the whole screen, although it isn't very well optimized.

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Xylight 1 point 3 years ago

Try it now, I've made the design much better for desktop.

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drasticpotatoes 4 points 3 years ago

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sheodox 3 points 3 years ago

I do definitely want to make it work on mobile at some point! It'll probably be a while though.

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drasticpotatoes 3 points 3 years ago

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sheodox 3 points 3 years ago

Thanks! :)

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antik 2 points 3 years ago

That is something the Alexandrite developer @sheodox@lemmy.world can reply better than me. As far as I know the focus is on desktop use! And it does a great job at it imo!

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gon 4 points 3 years ago

looks great!!

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Blaze 4 points 3 years ago

Thank you!

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zerkrazus 3 points 3 years ago

Doesn't appear that I'm currently unable to add a comment on the a.lemmy.world version of posts, but I can on here just fine.

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sheodox 3 points 3 years ago

Did you sign in on there? The login session on lemmy.world and a.lemmy.world isn't shared, so you'll need to login on a.lemmy.world to post/comment on there.

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zerkrazus 2 points 3 years ago

Oh whoops, duh @ me. I've done that and now it's working. Thanks.

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Ab_intra 3 points 3 years ago

This is great! Going to be using this from now on! I would love it if the content was centered tho. Other than that this is what I've been looking for!

I also love that they added endless scrolling. This is really a must in any social networks nowadays.

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mmstick 3 points 3 years ago

The layout doesn't work very well with narrow window widths, or on mobile screens. It's only comfortable to use if you expand the window to at least a 1080p window width, so it's not very useful on a desktop using tiling window management.

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antik 3 points 3 years ago

No it's not optimised for mobile. I edited my post earlier about this

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mmstick 1 point 3 years ago

This is most definitely not suitable for mobile. The default Lemmy UI is optimized for mobile.

Similarly, this is what I see with Alexandrite on my ultrawide using a tiling window manager. Whereas Lemmy fits perfectly. And I really like how Lemmy's responsive UI shows the community sidebar when there's enough width to do so, which will often contain very useful info for members browsing posts on the community.

So no, I don't think this UI has been optimized for anything other than a maximized window on a FHD display.

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antik 7 points 3 years ago

Yes that's what it says in the announcement. It's an alternative desktop UI. Haven't tried it with a tiling wm myself because frankly I don't like them. We provide options, you can make the choice 🙂

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ttmrichter 3 points 3 years ago

When I try to post anything with Alexandrite active I get told something about Language not Allowed or some similar alert. I like the look, but the inability to post is kind of a deal breaker.

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sheodox 4 points 3 years ago

Some communities can restrict which languages you're allowed to post in, and I haven't yet made Alexandrite respect that list, I imagine that's what you're running into. Fixing this is on my todo list!

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echodot 1 point 3 years ago

It would be nice if that was some way for them to just work out what language you're typing in.

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sheodox 2 points 3 years ago

Hey, just wanted to let you know this should be fixed now!

There are a few moving parts here: instances have a list of all languages it knows about, admins can restrict what can be used on the site ("discussion languages"), and communities can further restrict what languages they allow (if no mods speak Swedish, no use allowing it because you can't moderate it), and on top of that you can select which languages you use in Lemmy's settings. Alexandrite now respects all these settings/restrictions.

Some communities only allow posting in "Undetermined", and Alexandrite defaults to selecting "English", so if it was in one of those communities that's why you were having issues. Should be good now though.

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mtchristo 3 points 3 years ago

verycool interface

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dimspace 3 points 3 years ago

rate limited and banned from server message for me as well.

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SpidersArePeopleToo 3 points 3 years ago

Looks great!

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ubermeisters 3 points 3 years ago

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victron 3 points 3 years ago

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SKLC 3 points 3 years ago

I checked it out in its early stages, but it's actually come a long way! Just set it as my default. Great job!

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higgsone 2 points 3 years ago

Is there a way to disable the community sidebar when opening a post?

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symen 1 point 3 years ago

Yes, you can click on the "Toggle sidebar" button on the top right

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lorkano 2 points 3 years ago

wow, this ui is sick :)

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Aurix 2 points 3 years ago

Looks pretty cool from the first impression.

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emuspawn 2 points 3 years ago

That's rather nice looking! I might have to deploy this and try it out on my instance.

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ren 2 points 3 years ago

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.

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Rreeddeerr 2 points 3 years ago

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)

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VenutianxSpring 1 point 3 years ago

Love the UI, however when I go to another community from the homepage I cannot get it to go back to homepage (without clicking the Lemmy.world banner top left). The back button changes the URL to the previous page, but the page itself stays on whatever community I opened.

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Someology 1 point 3 years ago

When I click "Subscribed" at the top, nothing happens.

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meldroc 1 point 3 years ago

Very cool! Can you add this to the list o' themes in the settings please?

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BurntRiddles 3 points 3 years ago

This not just a theme, it is a totally different front end to Lemmy. You can only use by going to the url given.

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Imhotep 1 point 3 years ago

It's really nice.

One issue (already mentioned probably): the time with a minus sign confuses me, I keep thinking it represents downvotes.

Instead of -4 h, maybe 4 h ago?

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woelkchen 1 point 3 years ago

Aaaaand, it's gone.

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Metz 1 point 3 years ago

okay, yes, i dig it. especially the much better arranged comment trees. and the content on the right side is actually a quite nice idea. after hiding the sidebar you can basically scroll and consume in a endless loop. This may or may not be something good..

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solarzones 1 point 3 years ago

Noice

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ubermeisters 1 point 3 years ago

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ubermeisters 1 point 3 years ago

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trimmerfrost 0 points 3 years ago

I don't like it tbh

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Hurmeli -2 points 3 years ago

Unusable in mobile, which in this day is rather big oversight.

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antik 12 points 3 years ago

Yes, that's mentioned twice in the announcement. Bit of an oversight that you missed that 😁

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BradleyUffner 0 points 3 years ago

"meant for the desktop" and "unusable on mobile" are 2 very different things.

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OptiZonion -4 points 3 years ago

Couldn’t agree more and the way the admin replied to you is far from elegant.

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antik 6 points 3 years ago

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.

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