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!

  • Rreeddeerr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years 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)

  • Metz@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    okay, yes, i dig it. especially the much better arranged comment trees. and the content on the right side is actually a quite nice idea. after hiding the sidebar you can basically scroll and consume in a endless loop. This may or may not be something good…

  • miket@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Wow, thank you. I acutally was hoping you were going to add this becasue Alexandrite is the best desktop UI for Lemmy so far.

    It also means Lemmy.world is turning into the best instance already because they’re the most user-friendly and customizable one.

    Great work!

    FYI: I got rated limited on the first link but the second time worked right away. There might be some glitch there.

      • Holyginz@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I initially downvoted since I love dark theme, but changes to upvote because everyone has their preferences

        • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          No worries, I don’t understand the dark theme lovers either. I guess you have to put up with more light themes than I have to put up with dark themes so you get this one, lol.

  • varoth@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • sheodox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.

  • mkhopper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Anything that gets nearer to a RES-like experience from Reddit is an absolute plus. This UI is brilliant.

    • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The genius thing about it is the way it fully utilizes the whole width of a display, with the post content appearing in between the list of posts and the sidebar. I haven’t seen another Lemmy/Kbin UI that does this.

      It might only be suitable for widescreen desktop use, but it does that one thing very well.

      • oolong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It definitely could use a bit of work on the mobile screen sizes, but it looks very promising!

        Hell, I’m a web developer, maybe I’ll try to contribute.

    • reinar@distress.digitalEnglish
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      2 years ago

      yes, goes well together with Voyager. From app subdomain I route mobile clients to Voyager and desktop to Alexandrite, feels amazing.

    • Two@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      There is https://old.lemmy.world, which I am using. It even has a dark mode! It does have a few missing features. The message field doesn’t have any formatting buttons, you can’t change the shortcuts up top, the submissions don’t have alternating colors (but comments do!), and the preview button for messages sends your message to the server, which breaks often and deletes your message.

  • SKLC@lemmy.world
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    2 years 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!