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Alternative UI: Photon (photon.lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by antik@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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

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[-] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

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

[-] cottonmon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Does old.lemmy.world have a toggle for seeing NSFW posts? I can't seem to find it.

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[-] antik@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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!

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[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 31 points 1 year ago

if you're getting a 502 on photon.lemmy.world, you can still try Photon at phtn.app

[-] TheMadnessKing@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Have been using your app on Desktop. Instantly upgrades the entire Lemmy experience for me. Thanks a lot for building it out.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

I love your project so much!

[-] basskitten@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

The fact that the login UI has username, password, and 2FA code all on one screen means this immediately wins. I hate this new trend of "put in your email, now go to another screen, put in your password, now go to another screen...." Ugh. My password manager can autofill more than one box at a time, you know!

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

I don't know why websites do that, it doesn't look better, is probably more confusing and in general just slower for everyone

[-] XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's a small piece of a security gate to slow down bots trying to login

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[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

DAAYYYUUUMMM. That is stunning! Lemmy should make this theme the default across the verse!

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[-] maxk@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago
[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 25 points 1 year ago

Thanks a ton for hosting this!

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[-] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] antik@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago
[-] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] antik@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

BIG EDIT

Good call, that does look quite nice.

100x better than previously

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[-] Hikiru@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

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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[-] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Of all the new test UIs, I've enjoyed this one the most so far

[-] Dankry@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] lawrence@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Need to add an easy way to open images in full size.

[-] unifier@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Ab_intra@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Does it support infinite scrolling?

[-] Heineken40@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

you could have tried yourself but there is a "Load More" button

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[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok this is my new main way to access Lemmy on both desktop and mobile. Beautiful job.

*edit: After a little bit of using it, I'll probably stick with it for mobile for a while longer, but I'm going back to the default lemmy GUI for desktop.

[-] zikk_transport2@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Where can I find full list of installed alternative UIs?

[-] punseye@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Can we just take a minute to appreciate that we're on a platform supporting so many different frontends?

[-] antik@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

In the sidebar on the LW main page

[-] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Looks fantastic, thanks to the dev for their great work on this!

[-] victron@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's been a lot of lemmy web UIs as of late, but I think this is my favorite so far.

[-] shadowspirit@geddit.social 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] KrisND@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Okay, now that I can see it, its great! Is there no dark mode though :'(

[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 12 points 1 year ago

It does support dark theme, it uses your system theme. Browsers like librewolf will likely force it to light theme for fingerprinting reasons.

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[-] whiskers@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 9 points 1 year ago

It does support instance links. It was linked wrong in the post.

[-] isdfoa@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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)

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[-] Desistance@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure if I like this or Alexandrite better. Both are better than the vanilla Lemmy look.

[-] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] trachemys@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 9 points 1 year ago

It's actually because I forgot to implement it :^

I'll make it an option.

[-] Krachsterben@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Too much text. I much prefer a compact view so I can easily scroll past posts that are irrelevant to me

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