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 !photon@lemmy.xylight.dev 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
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.
I can login to photon.lemmy.world I can login through the sync app to my lemmy.world account I cannot login into plain ol’ lemmy.world
what’s up with that?
I had similar problem and clearing cookies in firefox helped.
DAAYYYUUUMMM. That is stunning! Lemmy should make this theme the default across the verse!
existential crisis in progress
Looks fantastic. Only nag so far is I’d like the side-bar to be resizable as well as collapsible.
Both are possible already! You can resize with the little thing on the bottom right of the navbar, and the collapse button is on the top left of the navbar.
Thanks for pointing out the resize widget thing! I did see the collapse button, just worded that poorly I guess.
Took a while before we announced it but it was running on photon.lemmy.world for a while already. Love how fast you implemented the changes that were brought up by everyone that was testing. Absolutely amazing job. I think you are the first one to get the admin tools in too!
So where can I donate as a thank you?
You can now donate here
Done🫡
I’m a minor and can’t set up a donation link legally. Any bug reports are very useful though!
Update: you can now donate here!
Dayum. I’m so jealous of you
Minors can have cash app accounts legally as long as you have an adult’s account approve it
Cash app is only available in the US and UK afaik.
I think crypto wallet is way to go, isn’t it?
That donation money would still need to end up in a bank account to be usable in a convenient way IMO, since bitcoin ATMs are a very rare occurrence.
I can’t see how a crypto wallet would help otherwise, unless i’m missing something?
eh, there’s places you can spend crypto on the internet these days. But your point still stands
You haven’t thought about the drugs!
Doubly impressive!
Not sure if I like this or Alexandrite better. Both are better than the vanilla Lemmy look.
From what I was able to see it looks good on mobile but of course lemmy world went down before I could fully explore it.
if you’re getting a 502 on photon.lemmy.world, you can still try Photon at phtn.app
I love your project so much!
Have been using your app on Desktop. Instantly upgrades the entire Lemmy experience for me. Thanks a lot for building it out.
This is probably the closest to new reddit we have so far, lots of people won’t use Lemmy because it’s “ugly” so this would be good to recommend
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I think the only thing I find “ugly” about the default Lemmy UI is the green buttons and inconsistent border radii on them. Everything else looks rather decent and very functional.
is that a bad thing?
Not at all
and if people (like me) want old reddit, mlmym exists. nice for people to have options
I mean, even with RES, I’d argue that Reddit is also kinda ugly
Most people use new reddit and have gotten used to social media sites prioritizing looks over functionality
I like new reddit because of big pics and videos. Don’t have time for clicking every post. I’m here for scroll and giggles.
pretty sure the only reason why they didn’t go the extra mile to incorporate this to the old reddit is because they (unsurprisingly) want everyone to only browse the new reddit.
yeah, reddit has its own business. why lemmy force us to enlarge every picture in web version? all mobile clients have big pictures by default.
Looks great! Wonder is there a way to reduce the size of the sidebar? It takes up a huge amount of the space on web (while still keeping the names visible, the minimized view with icons isn’t super helpful)
You can resize the sidebar with the thing on the bottom right of the sidebar.
ohhh thanks - it doesnt seem like that setting saves on refresh of the page though :(
I made it as large as it is because it looks strange if the posts are nearly as wide as your monitor, it’s quite hard to read
Unfortunately this is even worse than the default lemmy UI with even more wasted space on desktop. But hey, more options for people is always nice and hopefully some will like this.
My preference is just the default UI with the compact theme, no wasted space at all! But hey more choice is better, the more UIs we have the merrier 😁
Someone else mentioned old.lemmy.world if you like the old reddit UI. That one is closer to what I want personally.
But yeah, options is great. Just need a way to save a preference now so it will use my preferred UI when logged in. Either that or throw together a redirect plugin.
I love the nostalgia of old.reddit as well, but alexandrite.app / a.lemmy.world is a more modern compact desktop interface that I’ve come to like and use as my default front end now.
If you prefer compact designs, you’d probably like mlmym
I am using it now with my local instance. It’s a godsend!
I do and it’s already available at https://old.lemmy.world for anyone who prefers it.
Thanks a ton for hosting this!
502 Error but I look forward to checking it out, sounds like its quite an improved interface.
I’m getting 502.
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Me too
Same here
Same here
Photon.Lemmy is down
Lemmy.world is having some serious issues lately. See https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/
I’m seriously considering switching to a different instance.
It’s unrelated to Photon.
You do what you want to do, you can still reach the communities here.
But let me repeat that these are DDOS attacks. There are a few who want to see this server go down and/or push us to ‘close registrations’. Also the deferation from the extreme right and left instances made us some more enemies.
They’re trying to make it look as if we can not handle the load for their own benefit. But it’s a targeted attack by people who know the inner workings of Lemmy.
Has there been any posts on this outside of discord? Anything we can do? It’s been noticable and I have an alt I can use when lemmy.world is down, but I didn’t even realize this was happening.
very well
