I’d like Lemmy to attract a wide range of folks who contribute to a diverse range of communities. While the official web UI is very rich in features, I think it might be a bit intimidating for non-IT people.
So I figured: why not try to be the change I want to see in this world? Here’s my attempt, implemented in SvelteKit.
Works for me! Let us know when it’s ready to test drive…
Awesome. Read-only browsing is fairly stable at this point, but I think I’ll need to have basic account interactions like upvote, downvote and comment implemented before I have a minimum viable product. In general, I prefer to polish the experience before expanding the feature set.
A readonly prototype is available at https://lemminator.netlify.app/ right now ;)
Ooh, purty… 😎
This looks great! Nice job
Will there be a compact mode view? One of my favorite things with Alexandrite and mlmym is that they maximize screen real estate, instead of forcing a vertical mobile app type of view on a desktop. Great work and I’m looking forward to testing it out when it’s ready!
I’ll take it into consideration! My first focus will be on enabling more basic functionality like upvoting, downvoting and commenting. Right now it’s still read-only.
I loved it, I hope it is implemented as soon as possible. I hate the current interface.
This looks nice, could it be used in any browser? I use Safari and it has a pretty dumb support for extensions.
I don’t have macOS/iOS available to test on, but in theory it should. I have a prototype up and running at https://lemminator.netlify.app/.
Thank you, I am gonna check it out!
I tested it and I think it looks lit, all I want from a Lemmy web UI for desktop is to mimic how good the apps for Android/iOS does, in the meaning of having big ass images without clicking anything else to expand them every single time, I mean, you would think most folks have big ass monitors in use already (I don’t but at least is bigger than my smartphone screen).
Only feature I have yet to see on this kind of frontends is the ability to mark posts as read while you scroll and hide them as well (like you can with Summit and Voyager).
Another thing I am not a fan of the dark mode, maybe if you could tweak the interface would be good.
Overall I think I’m gonna be rocking your frontend when it gets released because I think yours fit more with my taste and needs :)
Love it !
is there a public beta, i would love to try it
The prototype is live at https://lemminator.netlify.app/ now! You’ll notice that it’s still readonly, so not quite ready to be a daily driver, but gotta start somewhere.
it seems like my comment was deleted. what is the link again?
The link is https://lemminator.netlify.app/. While it’s still very much a work in progress, basic navigation and upvote/downvote are already working.
thanks
Awesome stuff! More is better, and webUIs are, I think, a better avenue for UI diversity than mobile apps.
Not to detract from your work, but it seems somewhat similar to
alexandrite(see their community here), both in the general layout and using svelte. I bring this up just in case you weren’t aware and there’s any possibility of the two projects being merged or pooled or at least learn from each other in some way.Otherwise … awesome work! I’m a fan of columnar layouts!
I think this UI looks neat, totally room out there for both of them! :) I think it actually looks a bit closer to Photon. I’m always down for more apps because we all benefit from new ideas.
Prior to starting my own web UI I considered becoming an Alexandrite contributor. I like how colorful it is compared to the regular web UI. My vision is too different from a technical, design and UX perspective though, so I still think it’s worth pursuing a separate effort. I hope it’ll pay off.
Awesome! Best of luck!
I like it a lot, but would be cool to have a 2 column layout as an option like Mastodon app trunks.social has.
I like it, except for the rounded edges. Very cool
If it doesn’t have at least 20px of border-radius, is it really modern?
