- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Alexandrite is slick, gorgeous, and brings a lot to the Lemmy experience. I highly recommend giving it a try.
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Looks pretty. I’m not entering my login credentials though. Lemmy needs an app token system or something.
(dev here) I totally understand that, I wish Lemmy had that or oauth, I don’t like handling passwords just as much as you don’t want me to!
Hi dev! Any plans on a light theme? For me, this is one of the few sort of websites I prefer a lighter theme as I’m coming from old.reddit.
Eventually I do want to implement a light theme, but it’ll probably be a bit!
😀 👍
Yeah, I changed my password after trying https://mlmym.org/ bc of this
While looking good on desktop (based on screenshots), it is definitely not designed for mobile. See below
Yes it’s designed exclusively for desktop.
You guys bring your desktops with you when you shit?
Do you really not have a toilet desktop? 🚽🖥️
beat me to it, but it’s apropo this is coming from a shitjustworks account
That’s true dedication to shitposting.
Don’t you guys have desktops?
for the lazy
You know what’s funny? I would never use something like this (my own Lemmy client is absolutely terrible in comparison!). But I’m so happy that Alexandrite exists: it’s proof that programming and web development can still be experimental and loads of fun. Congrats to the developers!
Honestly, I think this is the real selling point of the fediverse, at least for developers. There’s no incentive to force people to use Official Mobile Clients™. You can literally spin up something (meaning a fediverse server) locally, if you want, and test against that until you have something that works. And as long as you stick to the API, you can build whatever you want.
Woah, is that a Plan9 / 9Front client?! 🤯
Yes - well, almost! I made a read-only filesystem interface to Lemmy then wrote a small program for one of the Plan 9 text editors/programming environments to access it.
The real thing would be to serve that filesystem interface over the Plan 9 file protocol (9P). Not quite there yet!
Yea, this is definitely going to be the way I use Lemmy in desktop going forward. I actually liked the Reddit redesign so this feels nice to me.
Using this now, and yeah, it’s really lovely.
As good as wefwef/Voyager is (particularly in helping to transition from using Apollo to access Reddit), it kinda falls apart on a desktop browser because it’s built around swipe gestures, and lives squarely in the middle of the screen. So Alexandrite for desktop, Voyager for mobile seems pretty sound.
Combination of constan tleft sided subscriptions list, and posts in overlay mode, really is a pleasure to use
I really need hoverZoom+ to work on Lemmy. I will use anything that allows that, and this may be great, but I’ll never know because no hoverZoom.
hoverZoom+
This is really good feedback. I wonder what that would take? 🤔 Is this something where the app needs to be updated with some property, or does this need to be fixed on HoverZoom+'s side?
I use Imagus and it doesn’t work well with Alexandrite, I was trying to find some documentation on if I could support Imagus from the website side somehow, like attributes to provide non-thumbnail image URL hints but I hadn’t found documentation yet.
I’ve been meaning to try building something similar into Alexandrite at some point otherwise.
I don’t know, I know it works in a lot of places automatically, but I’m not sure how it works. Maybe if the thumbnail has some sort of pointer to the real image?
