Alexandrite UI: https://a.lemmy.world

We just added Alexandrite to the server, it’s an alternative desktop UI for Lemmy created by Sheodox who worked tirelessly to make the necessary changes to we could host it ourselves here. So go to a.lemmy.world and have a look!

He continues to update it constantly, you can follow the development on his github page or in his community. If you like what you see and want to support him, why not buy him a coffee? :)

For those who don’t have Lemmy World as their home instance and want to use Alexandrite, either ask your instance admins to add it or go to alexandrite.app!

Edit: I should probably have mentioned that Alexandrite is meant for desktop!

Rreeddeerr,

I like this very much, so much indeed that I would like to be able to install it as a web application on my phone like I was able to do with Photon (install button is not showing up however)

Metz,

okay, yes, i dig it. especially the much better arranged comment trees. and the content on the right side is actually a quite nice idea. after hiding the sidebar you can basically scroll and consume in a endless loop. This may or may not be something good…

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Aaaaand, it’s gone.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/90dc0279-400e-478a-9c42-a9b8ae45538c.png

lorkano,

wow, this ui is sick :)

Imhotep,

It’s really nice.

One issue (already mentioned probably): the time with a minus sign confuses me, I keep thinking it represents downvotes.

Instead of -4 h, maybe 4 h ago?

Someology,
@Someology@lemmy.world avatar

When I click “Subscribed” at the top, nothing happens.

VenutianxSpring,

Love the UI, however when I go to another community from the homepage I cannot get it to go back to homepage (without clicking the Lemmy.world banner top left). The back button changes the URL to the previous page, but the page itself stays on whatever community I opened.

fidodo,

I want to caution that every new ui is a potential security risk. When it’s a mobile app then it’s entirely on the user to decide if they trust it, but when it’s hosted the host is implicitly giving a seal of approval so I think at least a bit of a code audit should be done, especially since xss is much more of a risk on the web.

There’s already been one security breach on the default Lemmy skin, so I think it would be a good idea to do an audit for every new hosted ui and include a section for it on these posts. You don’t necessarily need to crawl through every line of course, but it’d be good to cover what framework and rendering engine it uses and acknowledge any risks associated with them.

antik,
@antik@lemmy.world avatar

We have the devs of all but one of the alternative UI’s on our discord server. We try to provide options for our users as well as give some extra exposure to the Lemmy developers community by hosting these on LW. It’s actually pretty cool to see that devs from different apps are going through each other’s code and are being helpful. And other community members are actively helping the developers test (and request) new features.

So that is one of the things that we did to “play safe”. But I understand your concern and I’ll have a talk with the team how we can organise something like a code review of the UI’s we host.

We have one more UI to be announced soon. And that will most likely be the last one we will add.

kalanthil,

Thank you for all your hard work.

ubermeisters,

This was very glitchy in mobile version on my phone via Brave. This is of course excusable especially given your statement about being designed for desktop. Its got a lot to compete against with old.lemmy.world being my preference.

higgsone,
@higgsone@lemmy.world avatar

Is there a way to disable the community sidebar when opening a post?

symen,
@symen@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, you can click on the “Toggle sidebar” button on the top right

Swarming,

Such a nice interface!

Nioxic,

Great work Sheodox. Its beautiful!

Hurmeli,

Unusable in mobile, which in this day is rather big oversight.

antik,
@antik@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, that’s mentioned twice in the announcement. Bit of an oversight that you missed that 😁

BradleyUffner,

“meant for the desktop” and “unusable on mobile” are 2 very different things.

OptiZonion, (edited )

Couldn’t agree more and the way the admin replied to you is far from elegant.

antik,
@antik@lemmy.world avatar

Meant for the desktop means it’s not meant for anything else. It’s mentioned twice and if you read this thread you see that both myself and the developer made some comments about it already.

If you want to have something that works well on mobile either stick with the default UI, check out Voyager at m.lemmy.world or try Photon at photon.xylight.dev. We provide options and you make the choice if that works for you or not.

OptiZonion,

Yes, I’ve read the original post. I’ve also read the reply, where your second sentence ironically demeans the user’s opinion. You can think it but certainly shouldn’t write it, as an admin.

Aurix,

Looks pretty cool from the first impression.

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