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 [email protected] 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 cool!
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!
Maybe I’m confusing instances but I was almost positive they all have all those on the main screen?
Not 2fa code. The Lemmy apps have all of those on the sign up page, and so do alternative UIs
I don’t know why websites do that, it doesn’t look better, is probably more confusing and in general just slower for everyone
It allows you to direct users with specific usernames/domains to specific login pages. For example for Single Sign on.
Its probably also more difficult to program the functionality into multiple pages as well.
I’ve never seen this separated into multiple actual pages. As long the “multiple pages” are done in JavaScript, they don’t add much complexity.
It’s a small piece of a security gate to slow down bots trying to login
Need to add an easy way to open images in full size.
Too much text. I much prefer a compact view so I can easily scroll past posts that are irrelevant to me
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!
Thanks a ton for hosting this!
502 Error but I look forward to checking it out, sounds like its quite an improved interface.
Nice to have some variety and choice, and this is certainly a very solid first version! Always room for improvement, of course. :)
- How to log in the first time is not at all obvious. If that empty circle was not in the corner where most Lemmy instances have a login link I would never have found it. At least this is only necessary to find once, but still, there’s room to put “Login” text in that space.
- I like that the left sidebar with my subscribed communities is collapsible, but the community sidebar on the right is not collapsible. I think the latter is much less useful or commonly used for most users, so this is an odd choice IMO.
- Three vertical scrolling areas is not super great. I also get a horizontal scrollbar in the community list when collapsed. Why make the left and right panes “sticky” and scroll with the main column, then remain in place with further scrolling. If the right sidebar was collapsible, I don’t see why scrolling with the main column would cause problems.
I’d prefer to keep the empty circle, but an icon to put there would be better. Should I put the login icon in the empty circle?
Yeah, I think an icon of some kind would be great! Another option is having a text “Login” link visible by default, but once logged in just use the circle.
I’ve added a hamburger menu icon there. Should hint that it’s a menu better
Alternatively you could have the log-in symbolic icon
That wouldn’t look great though, as it’s a menu, not exclusively a log in button.
oh true, forgot about that
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.
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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
I don’t hate it but I’m still preferring Sync.
Yeah, this is desktop-first, and meant to be a replacement for lemmy-ui, not mobile apps like Sync.
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Actually it looks great on mobile too!
Sure… I get that… I just almost never actually browse the internet from a PC anymore… At least currently…
Works great on desktop!
Q: On mobile, how to quickly access subscribed communities?
I pressed the globe top right and then subscribed
It works but there could exist an easier approach like a folded side menu?
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.
It looks awesome! 👏🏼
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.
