Happy to announce we’ve finally setup some alternative frontends.
- https://p.feddit.uk (photon)
- https://a.feddit.uk (alexanderite)
- https://old.feddit.uk (mlmym)
Photon might be flaky, we’re on a release candidate because of issue I was running into using it in Firefox. It’s also what I’m using to write this. If you notice any issues, feel free to let us know.
this is a fab idea :)! thank you for workin on it
Are you using the node server? Is it working well?
Yeah, no issues so far.
Nothing related to deployment, but I’ve noticed photon doesn’t let you escape markdown like other clients do.
E.g. This:
\>watches french thing \>gets mad when it's subversive and weird ???Get’s displayed like this in photon:
I’ll look into that. Markdown is absolute hell to make work.
Absolutely get that, I’ve been doing some stuff with markdown lately and I didn’t realise I could hate a file format so much. Best of luck, friend.
While I have you on markdown, this:
> test
>
> testIs currently displaying like a line break with no extra space between the two, rather than as two different paragraphs.
Other than that - great work. It’s clearly the biggest hit of the frontends that we’ve added.
Ooo Photon looks nice. Do you have any troubles using these as a PWA (Progressive Web App)?
And it has full search!
Wonderful news!
Big fan of old.feddit, before this offering i’ve been using this frontend: https://o.opnxng.com/feddit.uk/ - but now that you’ve made old.feddit official, i’ll be switching to that.
Yer, it was the best to me too. I want to see a good chunk of the list, so I don’t like the picture being very big. I like your no pictures interface link, I’ll try it. Thanks. 😃
Having tried many of the alternative front ends, Photon is definitely my favourite when accessing Lemmy on my PC/laptop. I shall change my bookmark forthwith! 😄
Huzzah!
Just a small thing. When you go to login on the alexandrite frontend, the instance is autofilled with lemmy.world, instead of feddit.uk.
Is it me or is there no way to collapse comments on Photon?
Hit the time stamp after the username, or the dead space after it.
Cheers, I’ll give it a go when I’m next on desktop. Doesn’t sound very intuitive though. Other than that I’m quite enjoying it.
Any ideas on a way to make it more intuitive that you can click it?
I think it just needs a little + / - button (or some visual representation) to show the comment can be collapsed, I didn’t expect the deadspace to be clickable.
Unreleated, but I’ve also noticed that sometimes I can’t log in using Photon until I’ve logged in using the “default” web UI, and then coming back to Photon and refreshing fixes it.
Unreleated, but I’ve also noticed that sometimes I can’t log in using Photon until I’ve logged in using the “default” web UI, and then coming back to Photon and refreshing fixes it.
This is probably due to some server instability we’ve had lately. We’ve resolved it, so hopefully it shouldn’t happen again.
