The Lemmy Frontpage gets cluttered really fast. Is there any way to get a better overview? Maybe a compact view without pictures. Something ike old.reddit or Hackernews.

And is there any way to group certain communitys? Similar to reddits “multireddit” feature.

  • nutomic@lemmy.ml
    35·
    2 years ago

    You can write your own frontend for Lemmy by connecting to the Api and using it to build the HTML. The docs have some more explanation.

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
    24·
    2 years ago

    I’d just like Lemmy to take up the full width of the screen. I hate this design trend of wasting 50% of your screen real estate. Old Reddit scales horizontally pretty well, especially with a plugin to hide the sidebar which makes it work well on portrait and landscape on mobile. Lemmy is cluttered because of how narrow it is. I messed around with the developer console and made it full width and it looked a lot more usable, but unfortunately those changes aren’t permanent and I don’t know how to make a user style or browser plugin to do this change myself.

  • PriorProject@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 years ago

    On Android, Jerboa has a “list” style post view that may be more to your liking that the default card views.

    There’s no multireddit feature currently. I don’t have a link handy, but there’s a GitHub issue for it though.

    In general, I think you’ll find that Lemmy lacks many quality of life features you love in the reddit ecosystem. It’s a younger project, and less well funded. If you have a developer background or ability to learn, you may be able to help… but it doesn’t have the huge variety of apps and interfaces that reddit does, and you’re not necessarily going to be able to replicate a highly personalized UI experience terribly soon.

  • Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev
    10·
    2 years ago

    It’s an open issue on their github. The main devs are way too busy to deal with it. I’m trying to grok as much Rust & Psql knowledge as I can to be able to contribute, but it’ll take a while. Anybody with Rust & Psql knowledge can contribute, the devs are open to any contribution to improve the platform

  • orbit@beehaw.org
    10·
    2 years ago

    Oh man, the grouping feature would be especially amazing in the context of the fediverse. I’d love to group all my News communities into one set so I can browse just news for instance. I see it like clicking Subscribed with a subset of All, custom group 1, custom group 2, etc.

  • fr0g@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    You could check out kbin.social and see if the customization options can be made to your liking. You can definitely turn off thumbnails on a user level for example and make it look quite old-reddity in general.
    Would need a new account of course, but thanks to federation you can still follow and participate in the same communities.

    • Puls3@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      I think a better thing to do would be updates to Lemmy that allow for user customization and then have user styles adjust those customized features, that way its more decentralized and more in the spirit of a federalized community.

  • Puls3@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    I actually would really like something like new Reddit, Lemmy is far too horizontally dense despite wasting tons of space on both sides. I can’t actually tell which comment is the top most either.

    Generally its just difficult to discern what exactly I’m seeing.

    If I don’t find something soon-ish I’ll probably get deep into making my own restyle script.

    • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      UI and UX sucks for me. I would have liked to work on the UI, but the theme tech is not approachable to me. The theming seems to be coming, but just starting out with no docs there yet.

  • n7gifmdn@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    already exists. https://old.lemmy.ca I was surprised to learn how many different front ends my instance already had. I’m not sure what it takes to get it integrated on your instance