Is Lemmy's default user interface too plain, too minimal, or too uncomfortable for you? Alexandrite's web client makes every aspect better.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2277701

Alexandrite is slick, gorgeous, and brings a lot to the Lemmy experience. I highly recommend giving it a try.

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    2•11 months ago

    Your app getting some love @[email protected] !!

    A few people bring up in the fediverse post how it doesn’t work on mobile, which is obviously because it’s for desktop.

    But it got me thinking, apart from your work load, it might not be a bad idea? I don’t know how difficult it would be to make it work on both, so please tell me to shut up if this is too much.

    But my thinking was that the better mobile apps I’ve liked still have climbed or menus on the side, but hide them in expendable draw on the side, refreshed by buttons on the bottom. So the communities menu and the side bar could become buttons on the left and right at the bottom and much of the core design could stay very similar.

    Just a suggestion, as one instance admin in the fediverse post was asking about replacing the UI with Alexandria, which would be cool! Mobile support would mean it could be a complete replacement. Not that having it for desktop natively in an instance element be awesome either!!

    • @[email protected]MEnglish
      3•11 months ago

      Yeah I found the post a bit ago when I was testing my changes removing the “Go” button for the feed filters and was searching for Alexandrite like I’ve been doing a lot lately lol.

      Yeah I’ve been thinking it’d be nice but am mostly planning on using Sync once that comes out, but I had never considered it replacing lemmy-ui before it was brought up there, and that alone makes a solid argument for having mobile support.

      I’ve been thinking I could just keep both feed styles, but overlay should show full screen with no sidebar, and the feed could show as 3 full screen width areas with snappy scrolling to make it snap to one column at a time but easy scrolling between them. If I just made the other UI elements a little more mobile friendly I agree and think it could be somewhat easy to support mobile.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        Oh wow … cool to hear.

        I’ve never used sync before … but still … I’d prefer Alexandrite!