Please consider using my theme on this instance, so that everyone could enjoy a more more modern, efficient UI when browsing sh.itjust.works. It works with Lemmy 0.17, 0.18 and 0.18.1rc. It has a light theme variant, dark theme or both (auto).

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Repository with more screenshots: https://github.com/pkrasicki/lemmy-modern-ui-theme-addon

Theme files for download: https://github.com/pkrasicki/lemmy-modern-ui-theme-addon/releases

It’s also a Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-modern-ui-theme

The only downside would be maintenance. Whenever a new version of Lemmy breaks the theme, someone will have to fix it. But I believe that together as a community we can easily maintain our own theme.

  • 🐱TheCat
    1•1 year ago

    I guess I have a few questions:

    • you mention that any independent theme would need to be maintained. Do you have multiple contributors to your project? Or would you be open to? Are you trying to be in this for the long haul yourself or would you be looking to hand it off to someone to maintain?

    • does the theme impact the accessibility at all?

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•1 year ago

      I’m currently developing the addon myself. I will be maintaining it as long as I use Lemmy. The addon needs to work with multiple versions at the same time, so making changes and testing them is more complicated. It would be nice if all instances just used this theme (or any other modern theme), because then the addon wouldn’t be needed anymore. We could just have a simple theme to maintain and I want other people to contribute, so that it doesn’t just rely on me. This theme depends on the default litely and darkly themes. So it doesn’t have thousands of lines of CSS like other alternative themes, which hopefully makes things simpler.

      The theme improves accessibility a little bit, because some of the default text colors have poor contrast and don’t meet accessibility guidelines. I don’t think it affects it in any other way. Here is the default contrast in 0.18.1RC on some elements:

      • 🐱TheCat
        2•1 year ago

        okay thanks for your replies so far. Good to know you checked the color contrasts.

        I don’t have strong feelings so I guess we will see what the community does with this topic