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!
Looks great but really needs a light theme
I initially downvoted since I love dark theme, but changes to upvote because everyone has their preferences
Unusable in mobile, which in this day is rather big oversight.
Yes, that’s mentioned twice in the announcement. Bit of an oversight that you missed that 😁
“meant for the desktop” and “unusable on mobile” are 2 very different things.
Couldn’t agree more and the way the admin replied to you is far from elegant.
What I really want is a design that shows me twice as many posts at a time, there’s too much wasted space.
I agree. For now, as I find everything to be a bit too big, I put the zoom at 90% in my browser.
Are you on Firefox? I use an extension called PagezoomWE or something like that. It remembers the zoom level for you.
If you want old reddit, just use https://old.lemmy.world
That’s pretty handy to know.
But I kinda like the way Alexandrite looks, I just wish it was more compact.
Compact, like this? https://photon.xylight.dev/c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
Very cool! Can you add this to the list o’ themes in the settings please?
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.
This is most definitely not suitable for mobile. The default Lemmy UI is optimized for mobile.
Similarly, this is what I see with Alexandrite on my ultrawide using a tiling window manager. Whereas Lemmy fits perfectly. And I really like how Lemmy’s responsive UI shows the community sidebar when there’s enough width to do so, which will often contain very useful info for members browsing posts on the community.
So no, I don’t think this UI has been optimized for anything other than a maximized window on a FHD display.
