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·
    10 months ago

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

      • canEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

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

        • Ategon@programming.devOPMEnglish
          3·
          10 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·
            10 months ago

            Neat. Thank you for laying it out for me.