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
    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.