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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rayb to c/selfhosted
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Curious if anyone is working on the codebase for Lemmy. I'm sure we all see a few places where it could use some love.

The main repos are:

Personally, I've been working on a few small things for docs.

PS: Here's a pretty easy ticket to jump on if you want to get started :) https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1214

There is also a dev chat in their Matrix space: https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-space:matrix.org

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[–] pkrasicki 15 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I created a proposal with UI design changes. Feel free to post a comment with your feedback: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1183

More things would need to be changed to make the app more readable, but I didn't want to propose too many changes at once. So this is just for the main page with default theme.

screenshot

[–] rayb 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's pretty nice! I think that the theme could def use a little love. I think the devs said at one point that they want to make it so any bootstrap theme could be imported but for now it's just the two themes.

Are you a designer?

[–] pkrasicki 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'm a front-end developer :)

[–] rayb 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe you could make your changes as a userscript first and let people play around with it? I'd def test it out :)

Fun fact: there used to be many more lemmy themes that were pretty cool but they got ripped out as too hard to maintain a while ago.

[–] pkrasicki 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds interesting! I wanted to be able to use it myself in case devs weren't interested in changing the UI. Can you tell me how it works and how to do that?

[–] rayb 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You add a browser extension that lets you write code that runs on any page you want. This video should be a decent explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DmQ_V9ZRlk

[–] pkrasicki 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, I wrote a Firefox addon instead :D https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/lemmy-modern-ui-theme

But you should be able to take the script and easily turn it into a userscript: https://github.com/pkrasicki/lemmy-modern-ui-theme-addon

It works with both light and dark theme, but sometimes the detection fails for me and applies wrong styles. I hope those hacks will last for some time though so that we could have a modern UI. I would change more stuff, but some things are not possible.

[–] rayb 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very impressive, I dig it :)

[–] pkrasicki 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks :). Do you know where to find those older themes? It would be interesting to see how they were implemented.

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