1 yr. ago • 99%

New user interfaces available on lemmy.ca!

Hello everyone!

I've setup two more public interfaces that you can use to browse lemmy.ca:

https://old.lemmy.ca/ - This runs mlmym to give you an experience closer to that site most of us fled from
https://voyager.lemmy.ca/ - This runs voyager for a more iOS mobile style interface

Enjoy!

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This is amazing .... I'm throwing money, coins and credit cards at my screen right now

old.lemmy.ca looks and feels exactly like the old bag of crap website I left a couple of months ago.

DARK MODE ... it even has dark mode! ... keep it up, keep it up!

You guys are amazing and I'm more than happy with the subscribed donation I've given to your instance.

Keep up the great work guys, this is unbelievable!

EDIT: ... I feel like an addict that just got their fix again ... this is amazing ... I'm wiping the powder from my nose and I'm trying to act normal again

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- Don't thank me so much, it took me 5 minutes to install. The developer deserves all your appreciation since I'm sure it took them way longer.
  
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- Thanks for the kind words! @Shadow@lemmy.ca has been amazing.
  
  You guys are amazing and I’m more than happy with the subscribed donation I’ve given to your instance.
  
  Just so you know with the transition to the new team all prior donation subscriptions have been cancelled and we've yet to set up a new system for donations.
  
  We'll let you all know when we have a new system up and running right now but it's not high priority as we're well funded for at least the next 6 to 9 months if we don't have explosive growth.
  
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  I joined recently and tried to find lemmy.ca on Patreon, but couldn't. Will you folks set up your presence there? That's where I support all other Fediverse instances I'm using (plus Lemmy itself), so I'm assuming a lot of fedizens will find it natural to support you there.
  
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old.lemmy.ca absolutely nails it <3

EDIT: Just noticed the upvotes are blue while the downvotes are red, is that the desired result?

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- I think that's to keep it consistent with the normal Lemmy UI, which also has blue upvotes and red downvotes.
  
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- It's not something we built, you'll have to check the project site.
  
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Sweet! I saw a Lemmy.world making these moves and was hoping we would get that here. Y'all read my mind!

Great job!

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- Feel free to make requests if you see useful things that other instances are doing =)
  
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  Just saw the folks at lemdro.id add both voyager and Photon as options for their front end.
  
  https://nu.lemdro.id/
  
  This is the link to their photon. Looks pretty cool. Feels really fast.
  
  I saw it all from this post: https://lemdro.id/post/171020
  
  Anyhow, I also like Voyager. Just thought I'd let you know what they were up to over there.
  
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That's really awesome. The old.lemmy.ca looks surprisingly like old that-other-place.

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- When did saying Reddit become the equivalent of saying Voldemort?
  
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  Recently, but it's mostly just for kicks. Don't take it too seriously.
  
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  Looks like it's time to get out of the loop up and running again
  
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old.lemmy.ca rocks! Thanks!

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- oh wow that's cool. I agree with this.
  
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Thank you! You've read my mind. When I saw old.lemmy.world, I was going to request it... But here it is. Awesome!

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Why not use m.lemmy.ca instead for Voyager

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- Voyager is really only suitable for iOS
  
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  I'm curious why you say that. Seems to work fine on Android in browser.
  
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  It's also a Star Trek title
  
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Thank you! old.lemmy.ca is gorgeous, it even has dark mode, endless scrolling and auto-load (which brings over some Reddit Enhancement Suite functionality)

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- I'm sure they'll bring more features to it soon, and their GitHub should allow you to make feature requests!
  
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This is awesome! Is there any way to share the login information between the different user interfaces? In other words, can you make it so that we don't have to re-login on each interface?

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- No, each is completely isolated from each other. They'd all have to support some shared SSO, which I can't see anyone bothering to write TBH.
  
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Now I just need a subscribed community dropdown list like I had with RES

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- ...and now it's there with the new update! Nice!
  
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MLMYM is a huge benefit for Lemmy. While I'm not one, there are a whole lot of people used to the old reddit interface who will feel at home. It's just like the diggit interface from years ago.

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- What's MLMYM ?
  
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  It's a piece of software that creates an old-reddit-like interface for Lemmy. If you're asking what it stands for, I have no idea, "Make Lemmy More something something?" if I had to guess?
  
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  The old interface
  
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Nice, I’ll have to check that out on desktop .

Not really happy with both of those on mobile but memmy fills that gap.

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This is great! Keep it up!

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Holy shit! Thank you so much! You're the best!

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Hey! I run a lemmy instance as well and some of our users are asking for the old interface.

Did you deploy mlmym onto the same server as your main lemmy instance, and if so any chance you could share how you adapted your docker and nginx configs? (Assuming you initially had a setup like the one provided by the official lemmy ansible script?)

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- Just add it to your docker-compose file, then create a new /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ vhost that points to the port you expose from docker.
  
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  heh, thanks for your confidence in my abilities! We'll see....
  
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The latest version of mlmym includes the subscribed commuunities dropdown in the top bar. Can mlmym be updated to this version, please? The lack of access to one's subscribed communities makes it borderline unusable atm despite how much I like it.

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- Done!
  
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  Holy crap that was fast!!! And it now has the 'My communities' dropdown, which makes it much better! Thanks!!
  
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  Holy crapballs. Amazing :)
  
  Now let's get user flair on posts and comments and the migration is complete! :p
  
  EDIT: there's a longstanding request for post flair here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/317
  
  ..and user flair: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1456
  
  Silly stuff but it makes people feel at home!
  
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Thanks so much admins!

We really appreciate this server, and all you do for it.

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Looks nice thank you.

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Love the recreation of the old interface! I wish some of the edit options (like editing a community you mod) weren't hidden in this skin, though. Guess I should file a github request with the author to expose those.

EDIT: I jut missed where they were, see this post https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/issues/51#issuecomment-1652404012

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Very cool! Is there a way to add the "old" UI to the user settings alongside litely, darkly etc?

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- No
  
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Loving the old interface, but am a bit confused on how to search for specific communities on it. When I click on 'more', it brings me to search but I can only do generic searches.
ie: I can search for "topic", but I can't search for "topic@community.com" or "c/topic@community.com". Is this possible right now? Thanks!

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- It might not be.
  
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  No worries. I'll do some more testing and request it on their Github if need be. Thanks!
  
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