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(dev here) Sorry! The post forgot to mention Alexandrite is meant to be a alternate UI for desktop. There are a lot of issues if you try using it on mobile at the moment, because I haven't done the work to support it yet. I would keep using whatever you've been using on mobile.

I'm planning on adding alternate post styles in the (hopefully near) future. A more compact style is one of the styles I want to add.

(dev here) I hadn't really considered it as a full replacement before, but hosting it alongside the instance like a desktop version of m.lemmy.world is something I think would be neat (at least one instance is doing that, with a custom Dockerfile because I haven't made one yet). I'd need to add some mobile support (which I'm not against doing in the future) and some admin tools probably before it could be a full replacement, both would probably not be for a bit still because I'm still working on feature parity for normal users. Also still waiting on a Lemmy issue to be fixed before I can add image uploading which is the most basic feature the site lacks at the moment.

(dev here) I totally understand that, I wish Lemmy had that or oauth, I don't like handling passwords just as much as you don't want me to!

There's a slider in the settings for the hue used for all the background/borders/text etc, so you can change it from purple to other colors, like:

Eventually I plan on adding more customization so you can change the colors of links/votes, and I need to make a light theme because so many people want that too.

I use Imagus and it doesn't work well with Alexandrite, I was trying to find some documentation on if I could support Imagus from the website side somehow, like attributes to provide non-thumbnail image URL hints but I hadn't found documentation yet.

I've been meaning to try building something similar into Alexandrite at some point otherwise.

(I'm the dev of Alexandrite) Officially there isn't yet a way to self-host it without modifying the code (unless you host it on one of a few specific cloud providers like the official Alexandrite site does), but now that people are self hosting anyway I think adding support for it is going to be higher up on my priority list!

Yep, I'm actually working on making those changes now.

I assume there’s an API to allow individuals to develop their own front end if they wanted? Is there any documentation to this end?

Yes there's an API (docs here), but the docs are little more than type definitions right now so it takes a bit of digging to figure out what you're meant to do. You can look through all the methods on the LemmyHttp section of the docs, and watch the network tab in your browser's dev tools to figure out which APIs are called.

There's an option in the settings that makes the left sidebar not auto-hide if you just want to always be able to see them.

Some communities can restrict which languages you're allowed to post in, and I haven't yet made Alexandrite respect that list, I imagine that's what you're running into. Fixing this is on my todo list!

Did you sign in on there? The login session on lemmy.world and a.lemmy.world isn't shared, so you'll need to login on a.lemmy.world to post/comment on there.

I never had considered before a few days ago that someone would host Alexandrite alongside their instance so it never occurred to me that someone might first interact with Lemmy through Alexandrite. I will definitely add registration!

I do definitely want to make it work on mobile at some point! It'll probably be a while though.

Thanks! :)

I really want this. I haven't tried any of the apps (other than the one I made) yet because I don't want to give anyone my password. Oauth support would be so nice.

Alexandrite has a typo in the name! (I'm the creator btw)

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True, I've been using Voyager on my phone and it's a big improvement over lemmy-ui in my opinion.

Eventually I do want to implement a light theme, but it'll probably be a bit!

Hey, just wanted to let you know this should be fixed now!

There are a few moving parts here: instances have a list of all languages it knows about, admins can restrict what can be used on the site ("discussion languages"), and communities can further restrict what languages they allow (if no mods speak Swedish, no use allowing it because you can't moderate it), and on top of that you can select which languages you use in Lemmy's settings. Alexandrite now respects all these settings/restrictions.

Some communities only allow posting in "Undetermined", and Alexandrite defaults to selecting "English", so if it was in one of those communities that's why you were having issues. Should be good now though.

Yes, launching the game launches Ubisoft's launcher and you have to sign into that to play.

Also if you use Proton it doesn't auto close the launcher when you quit the game so it'll run up your play time while the launcher is minimized to the system tray.