If you’ve paid careful attention to our sticky, you may have noticed Lemdro.id hosts a few slick web app interfaces for Lemmy. Give them a try!
These are active projects, so please do report any bugs to their respective GitHub pages linked below.
What do you think of them? What kind of tools would you like to see for Lemmy?
Lemdro.id Interfaces
- Familiar for iOS redditors: m.lemdro.id powered by Voyager
- Familiar for desktop redditor: old.lemdro.id powered by mlmym
- Something new: nu.lemdro.id powered by Photon
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Being open source does not make it easy to theme it. Reddit was closed source, but the tools to create a subreddit theme were far simpler than having to fork the actual visual code of reddit.
There are also open source projects that allows you to edit just the visual files in a simple manner, for instance, KDE’s Plasma is relatively simple to create new themes without having to fork the entire Desktop Environment, because it was made with theming in mind.
Yeah, I’m not suggesting it’s easy. They’re completely different web apps and Lemmy-UI is its own project that isn’t setup to be themed in such a drastic way.
Lemmy is built to interact well with a wide variety of web and native apps, so I don’t think we’ll see much effort putting into trying to make Lemmy-UI the answer to everything. Once the other options mature enough, instances could just switch their default web apps altogether.
However, Lemmy-UI accepts CSS themes. If Old Reddit could have significant changes between subreddits using CSS, then it doesn’t seems out of place that the same should happen with mlmym, or even Lemmy-UI.
It could, but I anecdotally think folks on the Lemmy side are more interested in using various apps and interfaces with completely different experiences beyond layout and theming. You may want to consider posting on the Lemmy-UI or mlmym GitHub project pages though.