I’m aware of Photon and Alexandrite, but since Alexandrite is now unmaintained, Photon seems to be my only viable option at the moment. I’ve also been searching for an old Reddit–style UI, but so far I haven’t been able to find one that fits the bill.

Does anyone know of any active alternatives, or ways to achieve that classic look with current tools?

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 18 points 3 weeks ago

Blorp is the only other one that I like.

Don't look at what's in the past. Reddit is disgusting at this point and we should not be trying to clone it. Just like "we" for some reason try to clone Instagram, Xitter, and Facebook instead of drawing inspiration from it, removing the crap, and building new features on top.

[–] Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I really enjoy Voyager. I have it customized so it looks like the monochrome terminals (like in Fallout).

[–] eicker@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

This! It’s fast. It’s reliable. Love it!

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I just use jerboa..

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

There are dozens of us! Dozens!!!

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

AFAIK, Mlmym is the only "old" reddit UI. I'm not sure if it's still maintained or not but the last commit was sometime last year.

Didn't know Alexandrite wasn't maintained anymore. I liked it.

Tesseract is sort-of like "new" reddit circa 2023 but without all the crap. It's Lemmy only.

Voyager is also pretty popular, but not my cup of tea.

Blorp is I think relatively new but looks really nice. Haven't played with it much.

I'm a bit lost beyond those, but you can check out https://lemmyapps.com/ for a mostly up to date directory.

[–] dil@piefed.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

I always liked tesseract but had forgotten the name and reinstalled my pc without transferring my browser profile, nice to have it back

[–] jay@pie.zerojay.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Voyager link goes to some seemingly unrelated AI site, btw.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One problem I'm noticing in Voyager is seeing the same identical post over and over and over and over again - and this despite the fact that it can collapse cross-posts together (seems to only work when the author is the same). The PieFed web UI does a much better job of gathering those together, even combining together comments across all of them, although I don't recall whether the Lemmy web UI did this or not. Do you know of any apps that make that easier? Strong bonus if it also supports PieFed too.

[+] ptz@dubvee.org -6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The Lemmy API doesn't combine duplicates/crossposts together and requires it to be done client-side by detecting duplicate URLs when calling getPosts() to generate the feed. This means most apps that do roll up crossposts can only do so for ones that come through in the same API fetch. It's possible to roll up crossposts across different fetches, but having done that in Tesseract, it causes more user confusion than just letting it be a duplicate.

I've got a natural bias towards Tesseract because I build it, but it does roll them up both by URL and by title. The latter covers cases where someone posts identical things to different communities that don't use a URL, such as questions to the Ask communities. No bonus points because it still doesn't support Piefed, and it's not looking like that's going to happen any time soon.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You put a shit ton of effort into it, you have every right to be proud!! 😁

It's a bit sad that Tesseract won't integrate PieFed soon, though it wouldn't be the first Lemmy app to forego that procedure. There's also a number of issues preventing PieFed from taking off as we all hoped, with multiple highly active people either migrating their communities off of it or not switching to it as previously planned. We HOPED that it would reduce tankie dependency, but in practice it doesn't seem to want to be a true "social media" replacement so much as something more akin to Mastodon, and it is actively even if almost silently pushing its own ideology more and more all the time lately.

Otoh, Lemmy development is GLACIALLY slow, plus they likewise push their ideology, and refuse to allow donations solely to code development without putting a heavy (though undisclosed iirc) amount of that towards maintenance costs specifically for lemmy.ml. So it's not like one side is demonstrably superior to the other there, just different flavors of the same - they'll each do as they please, regardless of feedback.

Thank you for all your efforts to make the Threadiverse more usable! :-)

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Thunder is open source & cross platform. It's on f-droid if that helps sell it.