Hey everyone! Ill be starting to share updates on the frontend visuals here like I was doing with Pangora before it got merged into Sublinks

  • Edit: note for people who are wandering in here not knowing what Sublinks is. Sublinks is an upcoming fediverse link aggregator separate from lemmy. It will have api compatibility on release so frontends and apps should still work but the project will be focusing a lot on mod tools and federation updates once it reaches parity. This UI is the default frontend I’m designing for it

Starting off with some progress I’ve been making on the Home Page. Been taking things I enjoy from both alternate frontends such as Photon and Tesseract, as well as Misskey forks like Iceshrimp and Sharkey.

People who followed me as I was developing Pangora might recognize a lot of similar design decisions

Still in progress but ill try to share new progress at least every couple of days when I work on it with new additions

The left sidebar can be collapsed to show only icons for people who want a bit more space for post cards

Hovering over an option adds a popover saying what it is

In addition when you scroll down the navbar shrinks a bit to give you more space for post cards. On mobile the navbar hides completely when you scroll down and then shows again when you scroll up

The frontend is still heavily in progress so things may change a lot still before release as I refine it. If you’ve got suggestions feel free to give me them

  • canEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I think you should put a brief intro to the idea at the very top. I read your whole post and thought it was another Lemmy front end until I read the community description, and most people aren’t going to do that.

    Otherwise looks good. It’s always nice to have more platforms in the fediverse and API compatibility is great.

    Does this work: [email protected]

      • canEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Does the test instance basically run Lemmy? It still says Lemmy at the bottom of the page.

          • canEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            And this post is referring to a future alternative front end?

            • Ategon@programming.devOPMEnglish
              3·
              9 months ago

              This is the future default UI for sublinks that will be used instead of lemmy-ui as the default on sublinks instances

              Not ready to be used yet so lemmy frontend is there to show api compatibility and that the backend is functioning

              • canEnglish
                2·
                9 months ago

                Neat. Thank you for laying it out for me.

    • eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      It is also a lemmy frontend I believe, it is compatible. Maybe instances that host frontends like lemmy.world should host it as it looks amazing. Maybe once it is complete other instances could host it instead of the default.

      • Ategon@programming.devOPMEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Theoretically could be used with lemmy at least on initial release (im using it with my lemmy instance right now for testing). Might be some issues when the feature set gets expanded out

        • eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Do you reckon the UI is close to feature parity? The UI looks really good, are you thinking of hosting a demo of it anytime soon?

          • Ategon@programming.devOPMEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            Features wise could get parity relatively quickly (maybe a couple weeks of only doing features). Adding in design though so it looks good might take a month or a couple months

            Think the plan was for us to host something once auth and the main features are in like the home feed which should maybe be both done this week or next week

            • eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zoneEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              Only a couple months till it’s caught up to lemmy-ui? That’s super fast, I thought sublinks was like 2 months old? It will probably take longer to convince instance admins to host it.

              Can you make a post in this community when the demo is live?

              • Ategon@programming.devOPMEnglish
                3·
                9 months ago

                The basic features of lemmy UI aren’t that bad to add in and I had already done so with Pangora. Compared to gamedev this is extremely easy

                Thats assuming nonstop work for two months though so probably would take longer since I do things like game jams

                Yeah sure ill be making a post here