Feddit UK @feddit.uk flamingos-cant @feddit.uk 3mo ago

New frontends!

Happy to announce we've finally setup some alternative frontends.

Photon might be flaky, we're on a release candidate because of issue I was running into using it in Firefox. It's also what I'm using to write this. If you notice any issues, feel free to let us know.

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this is a fab idea :)! thank you for workin on it
Are you using the node server? Is it working well?
- Yeah, no issues so far.
- Nothing related to deployment, but I've noticed photon doesn't let you escape markdown like other clients do.
  
  E.g. This:
  
  \>watches french thing \>gets mad when it's subversive and weird ???
  
  Get's displayed like this in photon:
  
  I'll look into that. Markdown is absolute hell to make work.
Ooo Photon looks nice. Do you have any troubles using these as a PWA (Progressive Web App)?

And it has full search!
Yay. Photon is by far the best imo

Also strongly recommend Photon users change the theme to Catppuccin, it's such a lovely colour scheme
- How do you change themes? On the themes page the import button doesn't work.
  
  Click on your username/avatar at the top right, then Theme, then just click on Catppuccino
- Catppuccin is very easy on the eyes, so cheers for the reminder to change it here too.
Big fan of old.feddit, before this offering i've been using this frontend: https://o.opnxng.com/feddit.uk/ - but now that you've made old.feddit official, i'll be switching to that.
- Yer, it was the best to me too. I want to see a good chunk of the list, so I don't like the picture being very big. I like your no pictures interface link, I'll try it. Thanks. 😃
Having tried many of the alternative front ends, Photon is definitely my favourite when accessing Lemmy on my PC/laptop. I shall change my bookmark forthwith! 😄
Huzzah!
Just a small thing. When you go to login on the alexandrite frontend, the instance is autofilled with lemmy.world, instead of feddit.uk.
Is it me or is there no way to collapse comments on Photon?
- Hit the time stamp after the username, or the dead space after it.
  
  Cheers, I'll give it a go when I'm next on desktop. Doesn't sound very intuitive though. Other than that I'm quite enjoying it.

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