The 2 frontends are
- Mlmym at old.endlesstalk.org. Here you can get the old.reddit experience.
- Alexandrite at new.endlesstalk.org. “A beautiful and convenient desktop-first alternate web UI for Lemmy.”
- Registering isn’t supported yet. Need to sign up using old.endlesstalk.org or new.endlesstalk.org.
Everyone is welcome to try them and sign up(not required). It is running on a fairly beefy server, so should be able to take a decent amount of users.
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Love that you’re doing this. Hope more instances follow suit!!
I was aware of mlmym but not alexandrite. This is cool, thanks! I’ll try it out today.
Love the look of Alexandrite. Is there a way to self-host it? I’m not familiar with Svelte.
(I’m the dev of Alexandrite) Officially there isn’t yet a way to self-host it without modifying the code (unless you host it on one of a few specific cloud providers like the official Alexandrite site does), but now that people are self hosting anyway I think adding support for it is going to be higher up on my priority list!
I created a fork, where I added a Dockerfile, so if you know Docker and how to build it, should be able to use that.
It exposes port 3000 and you need to point PUBLIC_INSTANCE to where the main instance is hosted.
Alexandrite looks great, thanks for the dockerfile.
Noob question: could this be build as a native theme? Lemmy has an extra theme folder 🤔
I don’t know too much about frontend, but I my guess would be, that it would be difficult to get an 1 to 1 copy, but you coud get something fairly close.
Fediverse software is so cool, but most themes look like from early 2000’s 😅
Mastodon has the same problem. More modern themes would be cool