Did you know Lemdro.id hosts some slick Lemmy interfaces? Currently hosting Photon, Mlmym, and Voyager!
nu.lemdro.id
If you've paid careful attention to our sticky, you may have noticed Lemdro.id hosts a few slick web app interfaces for Lemmy. Give them a try!
These are active projects, so please do report any bugs to their respective GitHub pages linked below.
What do you think of them? What kind of tools would you like to see for Lemmy?
Lemdro.id Interfaces
- Familiar for iOS redditors: m.lemdro.id powered by Voyager
- Familiar for desktop redditor: old.lemdro.id powered by mlmym
- Something new: nu.lemdro.id powered by Photon
I'm honored to have Photon a part of this list!
Just installed Photon on my instance (photon.fanexus.com) this morning and it's beautiful!
It's surreal that some random project i made because i was bored is now gaining some traction and is being hosted on large instances
and we're delighted to host you! what a wonderful little project!
Photon one looked best!
just tried and it looks pretty good.
nu.lemdro.id looks very interesting
Agreed. It's my favourite design. I'm looking forward to seeing how things progress!
Unfortunately I can't login no matter what neither on my laptop nor smartphone:(
Are you typing lemdro.id into the box? Keep it all lower case. What is it showing you?
"incorrect_login" Also I can't type 0 (zero) in the 2FA code box but can paste the code even if it contains a zero
Tagging @Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev for awareness :).
Could you send a screen recording of what happens?
Sure here is one (I tried uploading the screen recording as a gif here and got this error message:
SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'R', "Request er"... is not valid JSON)
Anyway here is the screen recording uploaded to mega link
The bug with not being able to type 0 in the 2fa will be fixed in version 0.2.4 (check version by clicking on the profile picture)
Still can't login, I get the same error message on version 0.3.4
Could you show me the response of these steps?
404 and the error message is: {"error":"incorrect_login"}
The only possible error is that
Yep. They are all great. Photon is my favourite so far. Sleek & Fast with a Black & White theme. But they are still a Work in Progress amd lack features. I tried them a week ago. I always end up reverting back to lemdro.id
You can always suggest new features on the GitHub!
Is lemdro.id just a frontend? Is it not attached to a particular instance?
Lemdro.id is an instance but each instance can host mutliple frontends if they like.
It is an instance. This post is in the !android@lemdro.id community of the lemdro.id instance, for example. There’s also !askandroid@lemdro.id or !google@lemdro.id, to name a few
As mentioned by others, it's a specific instance but with multiple frontends. The main LemmyUI is just one of them!
lemdro.id is just a frontend, however it does have a special shortcut to the backend that allows it to function better under heavy load (on lemdro.id specifically)
Can you elaborate?
Yes! There are 3 different "types" of Lemmy backends in our infrastructure. "scheduled" types, of which there can only be one, run scheduled federation traffic as well as some smaller load balanced load of requests. The "external" type handles generic requests same as "scheduled" except without scheduled federation tasks. These can spin up or down all the way to 0, as sometimes the scheduled instance can handle everything on its own.
Finally, there is "internal". These are dedicated backend instances that are not publicly exposed and therefore do not handle any federation traffic at all. Lemmy-ui communicates with this internal backend, meaning that our UI has a path that is entirely separate to the federation traffic and should stay responsive no matter what!
I think they mean whether the entirety of lemdro.id is just a webapp like vger.app, rather than an instance as well.
ah, well this is why you usually do the communications stuff haha, I misunderstand people
It's okay, you have +100 technical wizardry stats!
I love this. So much choice, glad the 3rd party app community fully embraces lemmy.
Nice!
I'm a little confused. Those aren't Lemmy Themes, are they? Instances that use them still use the Lemmy default look by... default, right?
They're not themes, but entirely different web apps for accessing the Lemmy frontend. The default Lemmy-UI is just one of them and could be replaced outright.
...okay, that's a bit confusing but okay.
I have two questions:
To be fair, the default Lemmy-UI doesn't really look that far off from Old Reddit in terms of organization, only in styling.
Especially with this script.
These are all open source projects, so you can indeed fork the code to implement your own changes. You can visit the GitHub pages in the OP to see whether it looks like something you'd be comfortable with doing - but it's all definitely possible.
You could fork Lemmy-UI and build in those changes, but it would be pretty messy. These are separate projects being developed using different languages/frameworks/design philosophies. It's a bit like how there are many different Reddit apps on Android. You could theoretically just fork and reskin an existing project, but there's a lot to be gained from having something purpose-built.
Forking=/=Theming.
Being open source does not make it easy to theme it. Reddit was closed source, but the tools to create a subreddit theme were far simpler than having to fork the actual visual code of reddit.
There are also open source projects that allows you to edit just the visual files in a simple manner, for instance, KDE's Plasma is relatively simple to create new themes without having to fork the entire Desktop Environment, because it was made with theming in mind.
Yeah, I'm not suggesting it's easy. They're completely different web apps and Lemmy-UI is its own project that isn't setup to be themed in such a drastic way.
Lemmy is built to interact well with a wide variety of web and native apps, so I don't think we'll see much effort putting into trying to make Lemmy-UI the answer to everything. Once the other options mature enough, instances could just switch their default web apps altogether.
However, Lemmy-UI accepts CSS themes. If Old Reddit could have significant changes between subreddits using CSS, then it doesn't seems out of place that the same should happen with mlmym, or even Lemmy-UI.
It could, but I anecdotally think folks on the Lemmy side are more interested in using various apps and interfaces with completely different experiences beyond layout and theming. You may want to consider posting on the Lemmy-UI or mlmym GitHub project pages though.