After some constant issues with lemmy’s default UI and its interaction with other services, I’ve opted add all of the most mature alternative web frontends: photon (looks like “new reddit”, will be the default and also available at https://photon.communick.news), mlmym (looks like “old reddit”, available at https://classic.communick.news) and voyager (looks like apollo, available at https://m.communick.news)

Later this week I hope to have a proper post-mortem. I’m still not sure what is the issue with lemmy-ui, but these changes was a good lesson in how to setup the Lemmy backend without the UI and also on how to deploy Lemmy in scenarios that are more complex than the one for self-hosters.

  • SteveEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Photon is great! Nice upgrade. 👍

    • rglullisOPMAEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Funny, I’m still struggling with it a bit. Have you found the location to get notifications about new comments or reports? I know I can just browse to the inbox, but all the others have a icon for notifications…

      • SteveEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Okay. After spending some real time with it. There are some issues.

        • Like you mentioned, there’s no Inbox New indicator.
        • Text presentation and editing isn’t quite right.
          • New lines and paragraphs are handheld differently in the editor.
          • Paragraphs have extra margin/padding on the right that List items don’t have.
          • The text preview doesn’t match the results.

        I’ll add more as I discover it.

        Edit: As pretty as it is. Photon still needs quite a bit of attention to the text editing and presentation. I’d kinda like the default interface back. Is that possible?

        • rglullisOPMAEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, I’m finding myself using the mlmym and alexandrite frontends because of the lacking functionality. I’ll add lemmy-ui back.

      • SteveEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Haven’t seen that yet. But I haven’t had any notifications either. I only spent about 15 or so min with it last night.