Alternative UI: Photon

Side note, if anyone also misses the Old Reddit style, lemmy.world also has an easy way to do that, just visit: https://old.lemmy.world/

For more info, visit the devs GitHub: mlmym - GitHub

Took a while before we announced it but it was running on photon.lemmy.world for a while already. Love how fast you implemented the changes that were brought up by everyone that was testing. Absolutely amazing job. I think you are the first one to get the admin tools in too!

So where can I donate as a thank you?

if you're getting a 502 on photon.lemmy.world, you can still try Photon at phtn.app

The fact that the login UI has username, password, and 2FA code all on one screen means this immediately wins. I hate this new trend of "put in your email, now go to another screen, put in your password, now go to another screen...." Ugh. My password manager can autofill more than one box at a time, you know!

DAAYYYUUUMMM. That is stunning! Lemmy should make this theme the default across the verse!

I'm getting 502.

Thanks a ton for hosting this!

Haven't seen anyone else mention this yet, but this seems to be the only app (installed as PWA) that has mod options. Well done!

This is probably the closest to new reddit we have so far, lots of people won’t use Lemmy because it’s “ugly” so this would be good to recommend

Of all the new test UIs, I've enjoyed this one the most so far

This makes distinguishing between nested comments much easier IMO. That's been my biggest gripe with the default UI so major thanks to the dev!

This UI is very good for desktop users , It solves the problem of official UI . it does not makes sense to not show bigger images in posts in official web UI . Thumbnail views are great when you are searching for stuff , not when you want to actively read posts while scrolling.

Need to add an easy way to open images in full size.

Does it support infinite scrolling?

Ok this is my new main way to access Lemmy on both desktop and mobile. Beautiful job.

*edit: After a little bit of using it, I'll probably stick with it for mobile for a while longer, but I'm going back to the default lemmy GUI for desktop.

Where can I find full list of installed alternative UIs?

Looks fantastic, thanks to the dev for their great work on this!

There's been a lot of lemmy web UIs as of late, but I think this is my favorite so far.

Love it. Question: Does Photon not support opening communities link within the web app? When I click on the Photon community link in the post, it takes me to the instance lemmy.xylight.dev page

From what I was able to see it looks good on mobile but of course lemmy world went down before I could fully explore it.

Very nice. I've been using the various apps but so far nothing has really stuck so I'll probably just stay with the web version.

I like that photon doesn’t use the user’s display name in place of just the user name. That’s an annoying twitter-like feature.

Not sure if I like this or Alexandrite better. Both are better than the vanilla Lemmy look.

Looks great! Wonder is there a way to reduce the size of the sidebar? It takes up a huge amount of the space on web (while still keeping the names visible, the minimized view with icons isn't super helpful)

Okay, now that I can see it, its great! Is there no dark mode though :'(

Too much text. I much prefer a compact view so I can easily scroll past posts that are irrelevant to me

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Wow! It looks nice!

Looks great! :))

Ooooh, this looks great!! Especially on mobile too! Thank you so much!!

very well

Looks fantastic. Only nag so far is I'd like the side-bar to be resizable as well as collapsible.

This actually isn't half bad. I've been using a.lemmy.world as default for now, and it been really solid

Sick!

It looks awesome! 👏🏼

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Nice UI! I can't view the modlog though...

Works great on desktop!

Q: On mobile, how to quickly access subscribed communities?

Nice to have some variety and choice, and this is certainly a very solid first version! Always room for improvement, of course. :)

• How to log in the first time is not at all obvious. If that empty circle was not in the corner where most Lemmy instances have a login link I would never have found it. At least this is only necessary to find once, but still, there's room to put "Login" text in that space.
• I like that the left sidebar with my subscribed communities is collapsible, but the community sidebar on the right is not collapsible. I think the latter is much less useful or commonly used for most users, so this is an odd choice IMO.
• Three vertical scrolling areas is not super great. I also get a horizontal scrollbar in the community list when collapsed. Why make the left and right panes "sticky" and scroll with the main column, then remain in place with further scrolling. If the right sidebar was collapsible, I don't see why scrolling with the main column would cause problems.

Updated the post to include the new donation link.

Neat!

very cool!

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Photon.Lemmy is down

Looks great!

Would you consider adding my Lemmy theme as well? https://github.com/pkrasicki/lemmy-modern-ui-theme-addon

I can login to photon.lemmy.world I can login through the sync app to my lemmy.world account I cannot login into plain ol' lemmy.world

what's up with that?

UI is nice, but can we please have keyboard navigation in one of these?

FEATURE REQUEST, add a hide message option to the … menu of each post, including admin pinned posts

nice!

this is dope. is there a way I can set it as my default so when I go to lemmy.world i'll have this theme?

Liking Photon. There are some good QoL improvements over the default UI, such as easy access to changing the theme.

sehr gut

was wondering where the rss feed link is now in the new UI

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@antik@lemmy.world I'm seeing error code 500 popups when I try to upload an image in photon. This happens when it's for the post URL, in the post body, or in a comment. When I switch over to plain lemmy.world I am able to create posts/comments with images uploaded.

Seems to be missing some settings available in the default UI. Like the ability to hide scores. Is that being implemented soon?

AyOO where is the back button in the web version (I installed it from edge).

Don't say just use Edge or any browser, Please give a proper back button if there is an option to install this as an app.

I don't hate it but I'm still preferring Sync.

Unfortunately this is even worse than the default lemmy UI with even more wasted space on desktop. But hey, more options for people is always nice and hopefully some will like this.