I think it has less bugs too. I really like how it functions.
I like how on the comments, the "-" button was moved to the side. Much better placement.
just collapsed and expanded your comment 5 time to try it š
I just noticed that from your comment. Itās much better.
Testing if CTRL+ENTER works...
edit: it does.
what does it do?
Ctrl+enter posts the comment. It also works in other apps. Compose an email and press ctrl+enter and it will send it. It does on my email provider tutanota.com
Not enough compact for my taste
It's pretty bad. Given time and the open source nature of it, multiple view clients should arrive in short order. Have you checked out https://wefwef.app/ ? It's a web app (so can be loaded into any browser, mobile or desktop), and it's attempting to emulate Apollo I think.
Iām using it right now and itās pretty close to what apollo used to be.
In the comment section or post feed?
Post feed.
On desktop
Yeah normal view shows 6.5 posts on a 1080p screen. Compact shows 7.5 posts. you're right.
I like the new compact themes! I'm hoping someone contributes an old-reddit-lookalike theme soon š¤
I don't like the idea of my password being handled by a proxy.
(I hope those native apps don't do something like that...)
Iām in the same boat as you which is why I set up my own wefwef instance. Itās a docker container so you can build it and use or if you trust the author just use the one heās posting on ghcr.io
I'm not in position to self host anything at the moment (this whole Lemmy thing caught me between houses), but since everyone seems to want us to self host something, guess I can add this to the list. Ngl self hosting wefwef sounds cool, although by the time I'll get around to it, the regular apps will probably mature enough.
The whole thing took me about 30-40 minutes to set up from a scratch Debian 12 installation. The two main reasons I self hosted is because the instance hosted by the developer is getting rate limited and the second problem is thereās no IPv6 support. Privacy concerns were the least of my worries. The majority of the time I spent was configuring the other fun stuff, such as nginx ssh keys and firewalls. Other than offering you my own instance thereās not much I can do (which then again, is just trusting a different developer with your information)
For the time being I'll just live with a Chromium PWA, which at least doesn't crash unlike in FF. So that's not the worst.
The other things that could easily just be offline and yet have to have another computer somewhere, are more annoying. Like bookmarks or shopping lists.
I feel your pain. But wefwef won me over because itās the UI I had gotten to know and adjusting to something different sucks. The other āApollo-inspiredā apps are not there yet. Guess weāll see where we are in a month.
So far I'm quite liking Liftoff, which is veeeeery reminiscent of Infinity. It's also pretty far, because it's been in development for quite a while, albeit abandoned for a while. It's pretty crashy, but I imagine that will get sorted soon.
You can look at the wefwef and Jerboa code.
I'm not a programmer.
How can we know the live code is the same as whatās on display in github though?
Also use throwaway credentials and not get too attached.
Even if the host knows your password, it wouldn't really matter insofar as that password is only used there and nowhere else, and I hope no one is so super attached to their Lemmy accounts the way they were for their Reddit ones.
The "being attached" component is particularly notable here because due to Federation, instances can choose not to interact with each other, so ultimately one is likely to have multiple accounts on different instances depending on their situation (for example, it wouldn't surprise me that a number of people have a Beehaw account and then another account on a different instance).
I get the concern, but ultimately I see it as a non-issue.
you can selfhost it
This is phenomenal for a month or two worth of work. There are some dummy skilled engineers out there that got pissed off and acted on their anger - I love it.
My primary complaint about the ui right now is that on my iPhone when I click on a text box it zooms the whole view in so that the box no longer fits and I get horizontal scrolling. Itās a minor thing but pretty annoying.
Maybe something in the css about focus, seems maybe related to the highlight on the text box which sits outside of the box on all sides.
I like how on the comments, the "-" button was moved to the side. Much better placement.
just collapsed and expanded your comment 5 time to try it š
I just noticed that from your comment. Itās much better.
Testing if CTRL+ENTER works...
edit: it does.
what does it do?
Ctrl+enter posts the comment. It also works in other apps. Compose an email and press ctrl+enter and it will send it. It does on my email provider tutanota.com
Not enough compact for my taste
It's pretty bad. Given time and the open source nature of it, multiple view clients should arrive in short order. Have you checked out https://wefwef.app/ ? It's a web app (so can be loaded into any browser, mobile or desktop), and it's attempting to emulate Apollo I think.
Iām using it right now and itās pretty close to what apollo used to be.
In the comment section or post feed?
Post feed.
On desktop
Yeah normal view shows 6.5 posts on a 1080p screen. Compact shows 7.5 posts. you're right.
I like the new compact themes! I'm hoping someone contributes an old-reddit-lookalike theme soon š¤
Here
Thanks for the link! Looking at the screenshots though, they don't seem particularly old-Reddit-like to me, though, unfortunately.
Wow looking good
Mobile is a bit too cluttered with small elements for my taste.
WPAs crash like mad. Now I have to start using apps.
try https://wefwef.app
I don't like the idea of my password being handled by a proxy.
(I hope those native apps don't do something like that...)
Iām in the same boat as you which is why I set up my own wefwef instance. Itās a docker container so you can build it and use or if you trust the author just use the one heās posting on ghcr.io
I'm not in position to self host anything at the moment (this whole Lemmy thing caught me between houses), but since everyone seems to want us to self host something, guess I can add this to the list. Ngl self hosting wefwef sounds cool, although by the time I'll get around to it, the regular apps will probably mature enough.
The whole thing took me about 30-40 minutes to set up from a scratch Debian 12 installation. The two main reasons I self hosted is because the instance hosted by the developer is getting rate limited and the second problem is thereās no IPv6 support. Privacy concerns were the least of my worries. The majority of the time I spent was configuring the other fun stuff, such as nginx ssh keys and firewalls. Other than offering you my own instance thereās not much I can do (which then again, is just trusting a different developer with your information)
For the time being I'll just live with a Chromium PWA, which at least doesn't crash unlike in FF. So that's not the worst.
The other things that could easily just be offline and yet have to have another computer somewhere, are more annoying. Like bookmarks or shopping lists.
I feel your pain. But wefwef won me over because itās the UI I had gotten to know and adjusting to something different sucks. The other āApollo-inspiredā apps are not there yet. Guess weāll see where we are in a month.
So far I'm quite liking Liftoff, which is veeeeery reminiscent of Infinity. It's also pretty far, because it's been in development for quite a while, albeit abandoned for a while. It's pretty crashy, but I imagine that will get sorted soon.
You can look at the wefwef and Jerboa code.
I'm not a programmer.
How can we know the live code is the same as whatās on display in github though?
Host it yourself?
That's a good point but I'm not the guy to ask. Try at !wefwef@lemmy.world
Enabling 2FA should solve that issue, right?
Also use throwaway credentials and not get too attached.
Even if the host knows your password, it wouldn't really matter insofar as that password is only used there and nowhere else, and I hope no one is so super attached to their Lemmy accounts the way they were for their Reddit ones.
The "being attached" component is particularly notable here because due to Federation, instances can choose not to interact with each other, so ultimately one is likely to have multiple accounts on different instances depending on their situation (for example, it wouldn't surprise me that a number of people have a Beehaw account and then another account on a different instance).
I get the concern, but ultimately I see it as a non-issue.
you can selfhost it
This is phenomenal for a month or two worth of work. There are some dummy skilled engineers out there that got pissed off and acted on their anger - I love it.
My primary complaint about the ui right now is that on my iPhone when I click on a text box it zooms the whole view in so that the box no longer fits and I get horizontal scrolling. Itās a minor thing but pretty annoying.
Maybe something in the css about focus, seems maybe related to the highlight on the text box which sits outside of the box on all sides.