Of course it's always possible to go the user stylesheets route, with something like Tampermonkey or Stylish. But, is there an established best practice already? Do most instances have the same UI, and, if not, how are the differences implemented?

I also think there's probably room for some more niche stuff like RES used to do, but considering Lemmy is open source it might make sense to do some of that against the official repo rather than as another layer on top. Then again that would make adoption less convenient and under user control.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Did you try out all the themes available in your profile? Lemmy comes with a bunch by default but server owners can install custom ("extra") ones. Lemmy-ui is the place to contribute new themes you want default, but keep in mind there used to be more themes before they deleted a bunch due to maintenance costs.

If you want something totally custom for yourself then a stylish type route is probably the only (outside standing up your own instance) but that and extra themes both will need to be tweaked as new versions of lemmy come out. Lemmy 0.18 for instance involved an upgrade to a new version of bootstrap that mildly broke some theming people had. Nothing prevents lemmy from totally overhauling themes and totally breaking any work you put in.

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

Thanks for the response. Was that update recent? Could swear I didn't see so many options last time I checked...

I wonder whether a pull request would be welcome to allow users to specify a URL for a custom CSS file also.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

0.18.1 was installed like today and added a few more, I forget if the 0.18.0 release from a couple weeks ago added any new ones or just changed existing ones.

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

Ah gotcha. Could you also link me to Lemmy-ui?

[–] TragicNotCute 4 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

That's the frontend to the Lemmy project.

[–] ren 2 points 1 year ago

Personally I can’t make the new themes stick. I do the change, save, and boom back to the grey default.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you could help with his Dracula theme 🌞

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/665490

[–] njtrafficsignshopper 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What kind of help you need? I'm down to look at it at least!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is not my theme, but you can ask the OP of the thread if there is something you can help with. Would love to have this theme for my instance 😺

[–] njtrafficsignshopper 2 points 1 year ago

That seems to me to be one of the big issues - it looks like the available themes are down to the discretion of the instance admin. I dunno if allowing an arbitrary URL for a theme would be too much of a security hole, but it seems like that would quickly make each user able to use any theme they want.

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