Alexandrite UI: https://a.lemmy.world
Alexandrite UI: https://a.lemmy.world
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!
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.
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.
What I really want is a design that shows me twice as many posts at a time, there's too much wasted space.
That's how it should work! Click on post and instantly see the content and comments, without loading a whole page
beautiful! and the fact that i dont have to open a new tab for comments!
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.
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!
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!
I love the side-by-side view. No more opening posts in new tabs for me.
Wow that is really cool, I hope you can add photon https://photon.xylight.dev/ at some point, it is super beautiful too
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!
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.
I love this, thanks.
Whoa, reading this title was really trippy.
Such a nice interface!
I love the Alexandrite UI
Yooo, this is dope. Looks great, responsive, and good use of screen space. I love the retractable sidebar.
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).
Looks fantastic!!
Wow it looks amazing!!
Nice! Thank you.
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 :)
This is amazing.
And the developer is quick to add features. Highly recommended for desktop.
Looks really nice!
Great work Sheodox. Its beautiful!
Looks great, but I need a light version. (Don't hate :P )
@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!
Thank you!
looks great!!
looks great!!
rate limited wtf
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.
Very nice looking
Looks good! Sadly I can't seem to login with my lemmy.dbzer0.com account though.
Thank you for all your hard work.
I checked it out in its early stages, but it's actually come a long way! Just set it as my default. Great job!
verycool interface
rate limited and banned from server message for me as well.
Looks great!
Nice, the more options, the better. This looks gorgeous in a tablet.
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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.
Looks pretty cool from the first impression.
wow, this ui is sick :)
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)
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.
That's rather nice looking! I might have to deploy this and try it out on my instance.
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..
Aaaaand, it's gone.
Noice
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
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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.
When I click "Subscribed" at the top, nothing happens.
