Alrighty, here's what I've got

FROM golang:1.21

WORKDIR /app
COPY . ./

RUN go mod download
RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -buildvcs=false .

EXPOSE 4000

ENTRYPOINT ["/app/hex"]
#CMD ["-hb","https://lemmygrad.ml/api/v3/"] #Optional

basically just clone the repo, cd into it, create a file with the above lines in it called Dockerfile (uncomment and change the instance base URL if you want to), and then run some docker commands like this:

sudo docker build --tag diethex .
sudo docker run -d --publish 4000:4000 diethex

Then you should be running on port 4000 to test out. Then map the port however you need it and pipe a subdomain to it using nginx as needed.

Oh and if you want to change the title, remove the taglines, etc, you'll need to edit the page templates in files/... It should be pretty straightforward to just change the title/header and remove the MOTD/taglines. I did it but only for the main page.

You could do it but you'd have to be willing to do some of the docker stuff yourself. it shouldn't be too hard, just writing a dockerfile that installs the deps and the compiled app and runs it. OP is running it as an openrc service so that doesn't (likely) help you. some hexbear specific stuff is hardcoded but not a ton I don't think.

And of course you'd have to change the baseurl in hb/hb.go

Okay I got bored and decided to play with it. I got it running in a docker pretty easily, going to see how well pointing it at other instances works now. Will post Dockerfile and results.

Edit: okay, it works fine pointed at a non-hexbear instance (and you don't need to edit code, it's a command line flag.) Buuuut, the title still says diet hexbear and the taglines are all still hexbear's

lemmy world but fast.. nice

now do a good instance!

So I did a few comparisons. On ungoogled-chromium on my 2012 Macbook Air I disabled the loading of image assets. Just accessing the home pages with caches disabled took:

photon: 403kB transferred (1.2MB)
default: 2.0MB transferred (8.5MB)

Then I tried it from Firefox Focus on my iPhone SE (comparable to iPhone 6S) and both pages seemed to perform about the same as I scrolled around. I even set Photon to compact mode so it looked a bit more like the default Lemmy UI. My only other remark is it seemed to have an issue on Photon's compact mode where the page displayed was longer than the actual content, so a lot of white space trailed at the bottom.

I only learned of Photon from your comment and I have to say it's pretty impressive as a front end with only 9 months of dev time on it. I'm partial to it because I'm also right now working on a project in Svelte designed with the same idea: to do a better version of something which already exists.

P.S. Just saw this amazingly coincidental post about how web pages are mega bloated these days. https://lemmy.ml/post/13314292

I think the only major things would be around the css selectors like footer > * + * {, but it wouldn't really take too many changes. It basically already works in w3m

honestly this one is simple enough if you just removed some theming that would probably work

definitely don't need js to render a little image by a name

though it does make the page bigger and slower to load ig

it is not a full UI rewrite, its view only (and you shouldn't probably put your password into a site hosted by some random person lol)

heh, yeah getting lemmy to run locally w/o docker was a pain and it took me a while to get it going.

Just changed it to 70ch and yea I think I prefer this