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

As others have mentioned, there are alternatives like wefwef. The biggest hurdle right now is that Lemmy is configured to use something called CORS which is a security mechanism that ensures that the server on beehaw.org only responds to requests from beehaw.org, and not from just anywhere. This provides some minimal security, but not really a ton because only browsers are actually limited by it. Native apps and api calls are not :/

There is a PR (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3421) for Lemmy that will solve this issue, and once it is merged in, alternative web clients will become easier and more plentiful for lemmy.

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

Can't you configure NGINX to rewrite the CORS headers? I've done it before, so...

[–] AnarchoYeasty 2 points 2 years ago

An individual server host could yeah. But the client would only be able to work with that one server then. It's a flaw that needs to be addressed upstream.