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Sublinks Home Page Progress (programming.dev)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/sublinks@discuss.online
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Hey everyone! Ill be starting to share updates on the frontend visuals here like I was doing with Pangora before it got merged into Sublinks

  • Edit: note for people who are wandering in here not knowing what Sublinks is. Sublinks is an upcoming fediverse link aggregator separate from lemmy. It will have api compatibility on release so frontends and apps should still work but the project will be focusing a lot on mod tools and federation updates once it reaches parity. This UI is the default frontend I'm designing for it

Starting off with some progress I've been making on the Home Page. Been taking things I enjoy from both alternate frontends such as Photon and Tesseract, as well as Misskey forks like Iceshrimp and Sharkey.

People who followed me as I was developing Pangora might recognize a lot of similar design decisions

Still in progress but ill try to share new progress at least every couple of days when I work on it with new additions

The left sidebar can be collapsed to show only icons for people who want a bit more space for post cards

Hovering over an option adds a popover saying what it is

In addition when you scroll down the navbar shrinks a bit to give you more space for post cards. On mobile the navbar hides completely when you scroll down and then shows again when you scroll up

The frontend is still heavily in progress so things may change a lot still before release as I refine it. If you've got suggestions feel free to give me them

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[-] simple@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Looks great. Love the clean design and it has good contrast without being annoying with the colors. Definitely keeping an eye on sublinks.

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 6 points 8 months ago

I really like the design so far! I see you've taken inspiration from photon for the site info card ;)

The side nav is one of the best navs i've seen in my life, good job!

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

Thanks! Yeah lot of design is an amalgation of things I liked from many different frontends

Photon, voyager, alexandrite, tesseract, iceshrimp, sharkey

Really liked how you structured site info so did something similar but added in some similar formatting from pangora so it has things like the banner at the top

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 8 months ago

Looks great!

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think you should put a brief intro to the idea at the very top. I read your whole post and thought it was another Lemmy front end until I read the community description, and most people aren't going to do that.

Otherwise looks good. It's always nice to have more platforms in the fediverse and API compatibility is great.

Does this work: !test_community@demo.sublinks.org

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

True ill edit that in in a sec

Demo instance doesnt federate atm

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Does the test instance basically run Lemmy? It still says Lemmy at the bottom of the page.

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

Backend is sublinks, frontend is lemmy

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

And this post is referring to a future alternative front end?

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

This is the future default UI for sublinks that will be used instead of lemmy-ui as the default on sublinks instances

Not ready to be used yet so lemmy frontend is there to show api compatibility and that the backend is functioning

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Neat. Thank you for laying it out for me.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

You can find more details here: http://sublinks.org/

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Way ahead of you, I've already registered for the demo, commented from Sync, then had it and my account removed lol.

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah the entire site resets every day or something

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Did you disable registration because of me? lol

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

nah think registration still works. Site just has issues sometimes
Sometimes when I go to look at it I catch it when its resetting everything

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

It works now. Before it said something like toast is cool

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

It is also a lemmy frontend I believe, it is compatible. Maybe instances that host frontends like lemmy.world should host it as it looks amazing. Maybe once it is complete other instances could host it instead of the default.

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Theoretically could be used with lemmy at least on initial release (im using it with my lemmy instance right now for testing). Might be some issues when the feature set gets expanded out

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Do you reckon the UI is close to feature parity? The UI looks really good, are you thinking of hosting a demo of it anytime soon?

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

Features wise could get parity relatively quickly (maybe a couple weeks of only doing features). Adding in design though so it looks good might take a month or a couple months

Think the plan was for us to host something once auth and the main features are in like the home feed which should maybe be both done this week or next week

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Only a couple months till it's caught up to lemmy-ui? That's super fast, I thought sublinks was like 2 months old? It will probably take longer to convince instance admins to host it.

Can you make a post in this community when the demo is live?

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The basic features of lemmy UI aren't that bad to add in and I had already done so with Pangora. Compared to gamedev this is extremely easy

Thats assuming nonstop work for two months though so probably would take longer since I do things like game jams

Yeah sure ill be making a post here

this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2024
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