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.
Side note, if anyone also misses the Old Reddit style, lemmy.world also has an easy way to do that, just visit: https://old.lemmy.world/
For more info, visit the devs GitHub: mlmym - GitHub
Does old.lemmy.world have a toggle for seeing NSFW posts? I can’t seem to find it.
Both Photon and old.lemmy are missing that and the hide scores setting. They’re both better but the im disappointed they don’t seem to have feature parity with the default UI at minimum.
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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?
I’m a minor and can’t set up a donation link legally. Any bug reports are very useful though!
Doubly impressive!
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?
You haven’t thought about the drugs!
Dayum. I’m so jealous of you
DAAYYYUUUMMM. That is stunning! Lemmy should make this theme the default across the verse!
if you’re getting a 502 on photon.lemmy.world, you can still try Photon at phtn.app
Have been using your app on Desktop. Instantly upgrades the entire Lemmy experience for me. Thanks a lot for building it out.
I love your project so much!
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!
Alexandrite (https://a.lemmy.world) has those too
Awesome! For some reason I thought that one was desktop only since last time I tried it, it didn’t load well on mobile at all.
Oh yeah actually Alexandrite is not really suited for mobile. The developer is working on improving the mobile experience but it’s main focus is desktop.
BIG EDIT: Actually @sheodox@lemmy.world just released an update and it now looks pretty frickin sweet on mobile with a new cards layout.
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Good call, that does look quite nice.
100x better than previously
Ah that must be why it looks good on mobile now. I wonder if they’ll implement a way to install it as a PWA.
Does it support infinite scrolling?
you could have tried yourself but there is a “Load More” button
Thanks a ton for hosting this!
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 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
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.
and if people (like me) want old reddit, mlmym exists. nice for people to have options
is that a bad thing?
Not at all
It looks great!
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
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!
Not sure if I like this or Alexandrite better. Both are better than the vanilla Lemmy look.
Love it. Question: Does Photon not support opening communities link within the web app? When I click on the Photon community link in the post, it takes me to the instance lemmy.xylight.dev page
It does support instance links. It was linked wrong in the post.
I like that photon doesn’t use the user’s display name in place of just the user name. That’s an annoying twitter-like feature.
It’s actually because I forgot to implement it :^
I’ll make it an option.
