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After some constant issues with lemmy's default UI and its interaction with other services, I've opted add all of the most mature alternative web frontends: photon (looks like "new reddit", will be the default and also available at https://photon.communick.news), mlmym (looks like "old reddit", available at https://classic.communick.news) and voyager (looks like apollo, available at https://m.communick.news)

Later this week I hope to have a proper post-mortem. I'm still not sure what is the issue with lemmy-ui, but these changes was a good lesson in how to setup the Lemmy backend without the UI and also on how to deploy Lemmy in scenarios that are more complex than the one for self-hosters.

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[โ€“] rglullis 2 points 8 months ago

To complete the round of common frontends, I just added alexandrite at https://web.communick.news.

If you think that the default should be changed to it, let me know.

[โ€“] Steve 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Photon is great! Nice upgrade. ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] rglullis 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Funny, I'm still struggling with it a bit. Have you found the location to get notifications about new comments or reports? I know I can just browse to the inbox, but all the others have a icon for notifications...

[โ€“] Steve 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Okay. After spending some real time with it. There are some issues.

  • Like you mentioned, there's no Inbox New indicator.
  • Text presentation and editing isn't quite right.
    • New lines and paragraphs are handheld differently in the editor.
    • Paragraphs have extra margin/padding on the right that List items don't have.
    • The text preview doesn't match the results.

I'll add more as I discover it.

Edit: As pretty as it is. Photon still needs quite a bit of attention to the text editing and presentation. I'd kinda like the default interface back. Is that possible?

[โ€“] rglullis 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I'm finding myself using the mlmym and alexandrite frontends because of the lacking functionality. I'll add lemmy-ui back.

[โ€“] Steve 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Haven't seen that yet. But I haven't had any notifications either. I only spent about 15 or so min with it last night.