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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] whoamibro 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Thanks, can an instance technically have a different(or enhanced) user interface?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. Lemmy-ui supports themes and you can even choose an entirely different UI altogether. For example this UI: https://mlmym.org/lemmings.world/

[–] kamen 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, talk about people clinging to old.reddit.com UI.

[–] Uncle_Iroh 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I fucking hated old.reddit.com lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I didn't really hate it, but I never got how everyone seemed to love it, it was old and ugly.

[–] Tavarin 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] thermal_shock 6 points 1 year ago

Simple and worked well with RES.

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

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.

[–] kamen 7 points 1 year ago

Might also be about using RES; a lot of the cool stuff never got ported over to the new UI.

[–] Uncle_Iroh -1 points 1 year ago

I dislike those too lol

[–] Uncle_Iroh -2 points 1 year ago

Old, and ugly are 2 very kind words for the outdated garbage it is.

[–] AncientMariner 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn, you might have got hung, drawn and quartered for that comment on reddit ;)

[–] Uncle_Iroh 5 points 1 year ago

Haha, that's fine. I'm never going back to that shit hole anyways!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've grabbed a pitchfork out of reflex

[–] jamesorlakin 3 points 1 year ago

It's beautiful

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wefwef.app is also another web UI.

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

But it's not an instance. It's a just a web app for lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] TheBig2023Meltdown 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

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.

[–] TheBig2023Meltdown 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's the latest lemmy-ui repository. You have the option to choose your own from the backend

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

They don't all have he same theme. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com has a custom one for example.

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

Most of them run the default Lemmy UI which comes with the software, although I have seen two which use LemmyBB a front end based on the phpBB bulletin board frontend an example of one such instance would be fedibb.ml

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

Oh god, I hate that so much, jesus christ. Good luck to them.

[–] Draconic_NEO 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm not really a fan of it either. I guess it's good for people to have options though, if they don't want to use the default lemmy-ui front end.

I just noticed it seems like the lemmy update for 0.18.1 broke lemmybb so it seems like they're probably going to be inaccessible until they can get it fixed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I have a github repo with two themes based on nord. Check it out if you like and I would love any feedback!

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

Apparently you can run the wefwef.app front end as well.

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

I know. Wefwef doesn't belong to instance tho. The reason I asked this was, I wanted to know if the instances are restricted to use the default UI that lemmy provides

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

With enough nginx config you can probably get around it. You can send certain requests to certain programs and other requests to other programs.

So even if you had a server, with a particular domain/IP, and if lemmy was built to only run the API server alongside a web server whose client consumes from that API, you could reroute any requests that would have gone to the web server, to a wefwef instance instead.

Sorry if the tech jargon’s beyond you.

As an analogy, even if a McDonalds instance is a package deal combining the kitchen and the eating space, there are ways you could make it so that anyone showing up at that street address sees a Starbucks that can get you a McDonalds burger.

[–] whoamibro 1 points 1 year ago

I know nginx mate. I understood what you said.

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