Looks pretty. I'm not entering my login credentials though. Lemmy needs an app token system or something.
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While looking good on desktop (based on screenshots), it is definitely not designed for mobile. See below
Yes it’s designed exclusively for desktop.
You guys bring your desktops with you when you shit?
That's true dedication to shitposting.
Don't you guys have desktops?
Is there a way to use this as a total replacement for the lemmy-ui as an instance admin?
This is something I'd really love to see, as well. While I'd say that the default UI on Lemmy is "functional", in that it gets the job done...I would love if the backend could support alternative bundled frontends. This is something that Pleroma supports, and it's a great feature. It's something I wish more Fediverse software could officially support.
It's defeinitely possible with lemmy.
Check out endlesstalk.org, they have three frontends!
m.endlesstalkfor voyager,old.for the old reddit web ui andnew.for alexandrite.
Not to mention lemmy.world that also provide m.lemmy.world for voyager (formerly wefwef).
I think the dev is working on that by making a docker image(?)
the dev is @sheodox@lemmy.world and they have a community for the app at !alexandrite@lemmy.world
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I really need hoverZoom+ to work on Lemmy. I will use anything that allows that, and this may be great, but I'll never know because no hoverZoom.
hoverZoom+
This is really good feedback. I wonder what that would take? 🤔 Is this something where the app needs to be updated with some property, or does this need to be fixed on HoverZoom+'s side?
I don't know, I know it works in a lot of places automatically, but I'm not sure how it works. Maybe if the thumbnail has some sort of pointer to the real image?
You know what's funny? I would never use something like this (my own Lemmy client is absolutely terrible in comparison!). But I'm so happy that Alexandrite exists: it's proof that programming and web development can still be experimental and loads of fun. Congrats to the developers!
Honestly, I think this is the real selling point of the fediverse, at least for developers. There's no incentive to force people to use Official Mobile Clients™. You can literally spin up something (meaning a fediverse server) locally, if you want, and test against that until you have something that works. And as long as you stick to the API, you can build whatever you want.
Woah, is that a Plan9 / 9Front client?! 🤯
Yes - well, almost! I made a read-only filesystem interface to Lemmy then wrote a small program for one of the Plan 9 text editors/programming environments to access it.
The real thing would be to serve that filesystem interface over the Plan 9 file protocol (9P). Not quite there yet!
Using this now, and yeah, it's really lovely.
As good as wefwef/Voyager is (particularly in helping to transition from using Apollo to access Reddit), it kinda falls apart on a desktop browser because it's built around swipe gestures, and lives squarely in the middle of the screen. So Alexandrite for desktop, Voyager for mobile seems pretty sound.