I wish there were a more old-reddit style theme option for Lemmy.

3 years ago by yelloh to c/lemmy

Lemmy is certainly a lot faster than new reddit, but I prefer the aesthetic and speed of old.reddit.com and hackernews. I like the minimalism and how everything defaults to the left of the browser rather than the center. I also really enjoy how I can expand the entire text of a post without actually clicking on the post's link.

Just my thoughts. Hoping to see more theme and front-end options emerge over time.

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Cosmic_Frog 3 points 3 years ago

If anyone wants to work on a web client for Lemmy, let me know. I'm thinking about it, but seems like a lot of works for just one person.

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UrbenLegend 4 points 3 years ago

Why not just send in PRs for the official lemmy web ui? I am sure many Lemmy users want similar functionality and it'd be great if they didn't have to resort to a third party web client.

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Cosmic_Frog 2 points 3 years ago

Let's say I start with something simple, like moving everything to the left of the screen instead of centering it. People like OP and me would like that, but from the POV of the lemmy devs, that's quite a shit PR, isn't it?

I would rather have a web client that can go in a different direction UI-wise, and if they like anything there, they can take it for the main web UI. And of course, there are many other advantages of a client, like using multiple accounts from different instances.

Edit: I also like the idea of a simple client anyone can fork and modify to their taste.

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irdc 2 points 3 years ago

I had been thinking about forking lemmy-ui and then tweaking the site to be more Reddit-like, but ran into build problems and a lack of time. But I’m still open to it.

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Cosmic_Frog 1 point 3 years ago

I took a look at lemmy-ui, but I'd much rather work on something more static and detached.

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ShittyKopper 1 point 3 years ago

The main issue you're gonna encouter is CORS. There is no real upstream decision on loosening the existing CORS permissions. The alternative is to proxy every request from everyone which will not only get you rate limited but also you will have to deal with storing people's authentication tokens which requires not only complete trust in every step of the way but also not accidentally messing things up and exposing them somewhere.

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Cosmic_Frog 1 point 3 years ago

Hmm... that's interesting, I didn't think about that. Definitely not gonna proxy, that's for sure, I wanted it to be serverless.

Welp, I don't know how it could be done then. I would ping Dessalines or Nutomic, but I haven't really decided to start working on this, so I won't bother them. But if anyone feels like going for it, I'll be happy to lend a hand.

Edit: I just saw there's an open PR to allow CORS. I guess we'll see how it goes.

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