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 !photon@lemmy.xylight.dev 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
Side note, if anyone also misses the Old Reddit style, lemmy.world also has an easy way to do that, just visit: https://old.lemmy.world/
For more info, visit the devs GitHub: mlmym - GitHub
Does old.lemmy.world have a toggle for seeing NSFW posts? I can’t seem to find it.
Both Photon and old.lemmy are missing that and the hide scores setting. They’re both better but I’m disappointed they don’t seem to have feature parity with the default UI at minimum.
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Took a while before we announced it but it was running on photon.lemmy.world for a while already. Love how fast you implemented the changes that were brought up by everyone that was testing. Absolutely amazing job. I think you are the first one to get the admin tools in too!
So where can I donate as a thank you?
I’m a minor and can’t set up a donation link legally. Any bug reports are very useful though!
Update: you can now donate here!
Doubly impressive!
Minors can have cash app accounts legally as long as you have an adult’s account approve it
Cash app is only available in the US and UK afaik.
I think crypto wallet is way to go, isn’t it?
That donation money would still need to end up in a bank account to be usable in a convenient way IMO, since bitcoin ATMs are a very rare occurrence.
I can’t see how a crypto wallet would help otherwise, unless i’m missing something?
You haven’t thought about the drugs!
eh, there’s places you can spend crypto on the internet these days. But your point still stands
Dayum. I’m so jealous of you
You can now donate here
Done🫡
if you’re getting a 502 on photon.lemmy.world, you can still try Photon at phtn.app
I love your project so much!
Have been using your app on Desktop. Instantly upgrades the entire Lemmy experience for me. Thanks a lot for building it out.
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!
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’s a small piece of a security gate to slow down bots trying to login
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 allows you to direct users with specific usernames/domains to specific login pages. For example for Single Sign on.
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
DAAYYYUUUMMM. That is stunning! Lemmy should make this theme the default across the verse!
existential crisis in progress
Thanks a ton for hosting this!
502 Error but I look forward to checking it out, sounds like its quite an improved interface.
I’m getting 502.
Same here
Same here
Me too
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Haven’t seen anyone else mention this yet, but this seems to be the only app (installed as PWA) that has mod options. Well done!
Alexandrite (https://a.lemmy.world) has those too
Awesome! For some reason I thought that one was desktop only since last time I tried it, it didn’t load well on mobile at all.
Oh yeah actually Alexandrite is not really suited for mobile. The developer is working on improving the mobile experience but it’s main focus is desktop.
BIG EDIT: Actually @sheodox@lemmy.world just released an update and it now looks pretty frickin sweet on mobile with a new cards layout.
BIG EDIT
Good call, that does look quite nice.
100x better than previously
Ah that must be why it looks good on mobile now. I wonder if they’ll implement a way to install it as a PWA.
This is probably the closest to new reddit we have so far, lots of people won’t use Lemmy because it’s “ugly” so this would be good to recommend
I mean, even with RES, I’d argue that Reddit is also kinda ugly
Most people use new reddit and have gotten used to social media sites prioritizing looks over functionality
I like new reddit because of big pics and videos. Don’t have time for clicking every post. I’m here for scroll and giggles.
pretty sure the only reason why they didn’t go the extra mile to incorporate this to the old reddit is because they (unsurprisingly) want everyone to only browse the new reddit.
yeah, reddit has its own business. why lemmy force us to enlarge every picture in web version? all mobile clients have big pictures by default.
and if people (like me) want old reddit, mlmym exists. nice for people to have options
I think the only thing I find “ugly” about the default Lemmy UI is the green buttons and inconsistent border radii on them. Everything else looks rather decent and very functional.
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is that a bad thing?
Not at all
Of all the new test UIs, I’ve enjoyed this one the most so far
This makes distinguishing between nested comments much easier IMO. That’s been my biggest gripe with the default UI so major thanks to the dev!
Does it support infinite scrolling?
you could have tried yourself but there is a “Load More” button
Unfortunately no due to an issue with sveltekit’s router :/
i might make this an SPA soon which will support infinite scrolling though.
Please keep the paged view as an option though. Helps me keep up with where I was
Need to add an easy way to open images in full size.
This UI is very good for desktop users , It solves the problem of official UI . it does not makes sense to not show bigger images in posts in official web UI . Thumbnail views are great when you are searching for stuff , not when you want to actively read posts while scrolling.
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.
