Love the look of Alexandrite. Is there a way to self-host it? I’m not familiar with Svelte.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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(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!
I created a fork, where I added a Dockerfile, so if you know Docker and how to build it, should be able to use that.
It exposes port 3000 and you need to point PUBLIC_INSTANCE to where the main instance is hosted.
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 was aware of mlmym but not alexandrite. This is cool, thanks! I’ll try it out today.
Alexandrite looks great, thanks for the dockerfile.
Noob question: could this be build as a native theme? Lemmy has an extra theme folder 🤔
I don't know too much about frontend, but I my guess would be, that it would be difficult to get an 1 to 1 copy, but you coud get something fairly close.
Fediverse software is so cool, but most themes look like from early 2000's 😅
Mastodon has the same problem. More modern themes would be cool
Love that you're doing this. Hope more instances follow suit!!
new.endlesstalk.org looks very pretty, and it's all very speedy, but - for me, on Microsoft Edge - clicking 'Subscribed' or 'Local' or 'All' doesn't actually change anything.
Also, I tried to migrate my subscriptions etc with LASIM, but - for old.endlesstalk.org - it says the API isn't there, and for endlesstalk.org and new.endlesstalk.org it uploads and says it's worked, but nothing is there for any of the site versions.
Images are working again now, so you can try again and see if it works.
Re: navigating between Subscribed, Local or All on the Alexandrite version, I've just realised that I also have to press "Go>" to make it change, so sorry about that.
Re: using LASIM to upload subscriptions still doesn't do anything, unfortunately. It might be the app - I've never used it on anything before tbh.
No problem.
I will try to use the tool and see if I can find out, if its the tool or the website. I'll update, when I find more out.