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Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)
submitted 5 months ago by deadsuperhero to c/fediverse
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Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of choice.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Forget the backend! I just want the frontend not to crap itself whenever it can't fetch the site icon!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

A new front-end is coming too. We need a new front-end to support all the new features we’re adding.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried any of the web client alternatives ("Web" filter): https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I run Photon on base domain because I couldn't count on lemmy-ui.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Photon developer is assisting with the development of the new front-end :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's good news. Hopefully they'll get let you change your avatar in that new UI because that's one of the weirdly missing Photon features.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We have our own engineers working on it with him along with the developer of pangora. It's a full collaborative effort to make the best we can.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

with the developer of pangora

It's like the Avengers are gathering

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Mine had accumulated 420MB of cookie data the other day. Had to clear it before I could log in. I thought the instance was dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

No kidding. I'm an Ops guy and I've hosted hundreds of web applications professionally and for fun over the years but Lemmy has been one of the more frustrating and brittle experiences I've had.

I've figured out a few of the quirks by now but I definitely spent a whole afternoon troubleshooting why the front end wouldn't load at all only to discover the real issue was with Pict-rs.