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Why does Lemmy only have one frontend? (self.programming)

submitted 2 years ago by CinnamonTheCat to c/programming

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I saw a post today from beehaw's admin talking about the new UI? Why are we limited to the UI being as it is? Why aren't there alternative hostable Lemmy frontends?

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[–] trekz 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why aren’t there alternative hostable Lemmy frontends?

Likely because no one is working on it. But there most certainly can be alternative frontends.

[–] CinnamonTheCat 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is there a demand?

[–] remington 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There likely will be soon.

[–] CinnamonTheCat 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I would work on it, but I have little to no help and suck at css

EDIT: my ADHD brain really wants to so if anyone wants to help/has ideas pls msg

[–] AnarchoYeasty 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sucking at CSS isn't that huge of a deal. You can use utility frameworks like tailwindcss to avoid writing css directly, and if you use react you can use component libraries like Mantine (https://mantine.dev) which is both customizable but also looks great out of the box and provides most any component you'd need to work on something like this.

[–] CinnamonTheCat 1 points 2 years ago

ehhh I have a love hate relationship with those, they sometimes look great but they also don't

[–] crank 2 points 2 years ago

As of june and july 2023 very likely