Just an FYI post for folks who are new or recently returning to Lemmy, I have updated the linked grease/tamper/violentmonkey script for Lemmvy v0.18.

These two scripts (a compact version and a large thumbnail version) substantially rearrange the default Lemmy format.

These are (finally) relatively stable for desktop/widescreen. Future versions will focus a little more on the mobile/handheld experience.

These are theme agnostic and should work with darkly and litely (and variants) themes.

Screenshot of “Compact” version

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comments page

As always, feedback is appreciated!

  • Jakylla@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    So nice ! I was trying to make one to expand the page and use this 40% left-right margin on my screens, Thank you !

    Here are my personal adaptations:

    - Commented font-size for titles: I didn’t like having them as small as the text

    CSS code
    /* post title font size*/
    .h5, h5 {
        /*font-size: 1rem !important;*/
        margin-bottom: 0.1rem !important;
    }
    

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    - Added a class for posts without image or links to have a thumbnail without the gray background, to dissociate them from links (that are from my point of view, too similar looking to text only posts)

    - Also changed how I display images in thumbnail (I prefer to see the whole image resized down with no crop, even if hardly anything may be readable on the thumbnail)

    CSS code
    .thumbnail {
        object-fit: scale-down; /* instead of "cover" */
        background-color: #333;
    }
    
    /* Remove gray background for only-messages posts thumbnails */
    .post-media a[href^="/post/"] .thumbnail {
        background-color: unset !important;
    }
    
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    (Notice the visible difference between the link and the post without link)

    • mershed_perderders@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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      1 year ago

      These are nice.

      I have thought about making the h5 font-size a user customizable parameter. You are not the only one who prefers the larger font size for titles. It’s easy enough to incorporate - I’ll experiment and see if there is a way to do it that preserves the variable between script updates.

      I also like what you did with the text posts, particularly the scale-down parameter. My preference is preserving the visual outline of the thumbnail area for consistency.

      Maybe something like:

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      .post-media a[href^="/post/"] .thumbnail {
        border: 1px solid #333;
        background-color: unset !important;
      }