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Alexandrite UI: https://a.lemmy.world (a.lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We just added Alexandrite to the server, it's an alternative desktop UI for Lemmy created by Sheodox who worked tirelessly to make the necessary changes to we could host it ourselves here. So go to https://a.lemmy.world and have a look!

He continues to update it constantly, you can follow the development on his github page or in his community. If you like what you see and want to support him, why not buy him a coffee? :)

For those who don't have Lemmy World as their home instance and want to use Alexandrite, either ask your instance admins to add it or go to https://alexandrite.app!

Edit: I should probably have mentioned that Alexandrite is meant for desktop!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, I love this a lot. Initially chuckled at the theme color slider in the settings, but it's unironically a great way to edit that haha.

My instance (lemdro.id) has Photon as their modern look alternative, which also looks pretty sleek IMO, but I think I'll be using this going forward mostly because it's more desktop-looking than Photon's more mobile-centric layout.

Fantastic work on this, can't wait to see how it grows going forward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Photon dev here, what's mobile-centric about it? I actually aimed for it to work well on both. The reason the pages don't span the whole distance is for legibility reasons.

I actually aimed for this to be desktop first, that's why i use buttons instead of gestures.

Your decision is good though, I personally think Alexandrite is much better than Photon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It definitely functions well on both, I don't mean to suggest that it's meant for mobile. But yeah, I think it's mostly the fact that all the content is only on the center 1/3 of my screen. To me, that just feels a lot like a mobile view compared to something that uses the whole area of the browser.

A lot of social sites on the modern web look this way now, and generally it's a result of them trying to prioritize mobile uses first, so when I see it anywhere now it's just a "oh, this is a mobile site" in my mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

An option was added to make everything span the whole screen, although it isn't very well optimized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try it now, I've made the design much better for desktop.