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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When I try to post anything with Alexandrite active I get told something about Language not Allowed or some similar alert. I like the look, but the inability to post is kind of a deal breaker.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hey, just wanted to let you know this should be fixed now!

There are a few moving parts here: instances have a list of all languages it knows about, admins can restrict what can be used on the site ("discussion languages"), and communities can further restrict what languages they allow (if no mods speak Swedish, no use allowing it because you can't moderate it), and on top of that you can select which languages you use in Lemmy's settings. Alexandrite now respects all these settings/restrictions.

Some communities only allow posting in "Undetermined", and Alexandrite defaults to selecting "English", so if it was in one of those communities that's why you were having issues. Should be good now though.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

rate limited and banned from server message for me as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The layout doesn't work very well with narrow window widths, or on mobile screens. It's only comfortable to use if you expand the window to at least a 1080p window width, so it's not very useful on a desktop using tiling window management.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I checked it out in its early stages, but it's actually come a long way! Just set it as my default. Great job!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is great! Going to be using this from now on! I would love it if the content was centered tho. Other than that this is what I've been looking for!

I also love that they added endless scrolling. This is really a must in any social networks nowadays.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Doesn't appear that I'm currently unable to add a comment on the a.lemmy.world version of posts, but I can on here just fine.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you sign in on there? The login session on lemmy.world and a.lemmy.world isn't shared, so you'll need to login on a.lemmy.world to post/comment on there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh whoops, duh @ me. I've done that and now it's working. Thanks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Looks great!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

wow, this ui is sick :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I like this very much, so much indeed that I would like to be able to install it as a web application on my phone like I was able to do with Photon (install button is not showing up however)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

verycool interface

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Looks pretty cool from the first impression.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to disable the community sidebar when opening a post?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very nice, wonder if anyone will make a large media feed version of lemmy for desktop OS. I get the love of old.reddit but personally, I like a large image/video feed like in the apps.

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