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[Discussion] Consider Using My Modern Lemmy UI Theme (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/agora
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Please consider using my theme on this instance, so that everyone could enjoy a more more modern, efficient UI when browsing sh.itjust.works. It works with Lemmy 0.17, 0.18 and 0.18.1rc. It has a light theme variant, dark theme or both (auto).

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Repository with more screenshots: https://github.com/pkrasicki/lemmy-modern-ui-theme-addon

Theme files for download: https://github.com/pkrasicki/lemmy-modern-ui-theme-addon/releases

It's also a Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-modern-ui-theme

The only downside would be maintenance. Whenever a new version of Lemmy breaks the theme, someone will have to fix it. But I believe that together as a community we can easily maintain our own theme.

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[–] WheeGeetheCat 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh it looks nice, I have nothing specifically against it, however:

  • in general I dislike this type of self-promotion post on agora

  • if we are going to discuss this, I think people should be free to post any themes they've seen that they like and we can discuss all the themes at the same time and choose 1 for awhile, rather than having a discussion like this each time someone wants to promote a new theme.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something needs to be done about Lemmy's UI. Currently multiple developers develop their userscripts independently. But if big instances chose one common theme, it would be a lot easier to maintain it and most people could enjoy a nice UI without having to install anything.

It doesn't have to be my theme, so feel free to post alternatives. I don't know of any modern looking ones. I've seen some nice userscripts though and maybe they can be turned into a Lemmy theme.

I think those would be nice if we changed the backgrounds, but I don't think they are maintained anymore: https://github.com/2xx04/lemmy-ui-themes

[–] WheeGeetheCat 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess I have a few questions:

  • you mention that any independent theme would need to be maintained. Do you have multiple contributors to your project? Or would you be open to? Are you trying to be in this for the long haul yourself or would you be looking to hand it off to someone to maintain?

  • does the theme impact the accessibility at all?

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

I'm currently developing the addon myself. I will be maintaining it as long as I use Lemmy. The addon needs to work with multiple versions at the same time, so making changes and testing them is more complicated. It would be nice if all instances just used this theme (or any other modern theme), because then the addon wouldn't be needed anymore. We could just have a simple theme to maintain and I want other people to contribute, so that it doesn't just rely on me. This theme depends on the default litely and darkly themes. So it doesn't have thousands of lines of CSS like other alternative themes, which hopefully makes things simpler.

The theme improves accessibility a little bit, because some of the default text colors have poor contrast and don't meet accessibility guidelines. I don't think it affects it in any other way. Here is the default contrast in 0.18.1RC on some elements:

[–] WheeGeetheCat 2 points 1 year ago

okay thanks for your replies so far. Good to know you checked the color contrasts.

I don't have strong feelings so I guess we will see what the community does with this topic

[–] goat 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the difference?

[–] Brunette6256 2 points 1 year ago

The dark theme uses more black and darker colors where as the light theme uses white and more lighter colors.

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

There are less bright and distracting backgrounds, which should make the site easier to read. Here are some screenshots from the default theme:

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[–] LudwigvanBeethoven 2 points 10 months ago

I think we shall make a UI Discussion in general. I might actually make it.