Why do all lemmy instances have the same web UI?
Why do all lemmy instances have the same web UI?
- Have we collectively agreed to follow the same UI to ensure easier interoperability for users?
- Can someone provide the link for the source code of the UI?
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https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
They literally all run the same program, lemmy.
Thanks, can an instance technically have a different(or enhanced) user interface?
Yes. Lemmy-ui supports themes and you can even choose an entirely different UI altogether. For example this UI: https://mlmym.org/lemmings.world/
Wow, talk about people clinging to old.reddit.com UI.
I fucking hated old.reddit.com lol
I didn't really hate it, but I never got how everyone seemed to love it, it was old and ugly.
I like that it's information dense. Posts don't take up a lot of space, comment chains are easier to track with the boxes, it's more obvious which posts will expand in window and which will go to a new link. I don't care if it's pretty, I find it far more functional.
Simple and worked well with RES.
Tbf, when people say they love old.reddit, they very well could be referring to some of the better-looking themes. A lot of old.reddit subs, for example, use Naut. Some also use Minimaluminiumalism, or Simplit.
Might also be about using RES; a lot of the cool stuff never got ported over to the new UI.
I dislike those too lol
Old, and ugly are 2 very kind words for the outdated garbage it is.
Damn, you might have got hung, drawn and quartered for that comment on reddit ;)
Haha, that's fine. I'm never going back to that shit hole anyways!
I've grabbed a pitchfork out of reflex
It's beautiful
wefwef.app is also another web UI.
But it's not an instance. It's a just a web app for lemmy
Yes you use their backend and you can develop your own UI if you'd like
Or you can make a copy (fork) lemmy-ui and make your changes
It’s got to be two separable layers. Sounds like the lemmy server just happens to be bundled with a particular UI layer that can access the server’s APIs.
Yeah that's the latest lemmy-ui repository. You have the option to choose your own from the backend
But you could switch out the whole lemmy ui with wefwef if you wanted to. It probably doesn't have all the admin functionality, but theoretically it's possible.
