YSK how to theme Lemmy's UI to replicate old.reddit's compact layout using Monkey scripts

You Should Know@lemmy.world – 6 points – 1 years ago

GitHub - soundjester/lemmy_monkey: *monkey scripts for Lemmy

Why YSK: If you previously preferred browsing old.reddit for its compact and information dense web layout, you should know that this theme can be replicated for Lemmy using monkey scripts.

For more information on installing browser extensions to use scripts linked by this post, checkout:

https://greasyfork.org
https://violentmonkey.github.io/
- Recommend given recent context:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34830903

Jesus christ, that's so much better. The insane amount of negative space in the default lemmy look was extremely annoying to me.

For posterity, I later stumbled upon the authors original post here:

Tamper/Greasemonkey script to reformat interface to a style recalling old.reddit
- https://sh.itjust.works/post/53395

The community that this was posted from also looks interesting:

Lemmy Plugins & Userscripts
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/plugins

Bless! I really like this layout, it's great. Thanks for sharing.

I like it so much that I could consider including it as the default for the lemmy instance I am building.

Looks like the script author is asking for advise on how to provide it as a theme. Perhaps you might be able to help them with just that:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/304585

Huh interesting. I'm pretty new to this but I'll have a look.