An attempt to make Lemmy look better
An attempt to make Lemmy look better
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Reddit refugee here.
I have really started to like Lemmy and love the fact that it's free and open source, but I wasn't feeling so home with the UI, so I found nice looking style from https://userstyles.world/style/10345/lemmy-world but I personally prefer dark theme so I adjusted some colours and made the radiuses and margins bigger. I thought that maybe someone will find this useful and hence I decided to post it here. I am not a professional programmer, just a guy who likes to tinker with computers so this style may not be perfect. Critique, feedback and suggestions are welcome.
Edit: The colors are from reddit and if you want the colors to look more like the original lemmy, change the bg primary and default to hex #303030 and #222222. I really like this color scheme too
--bg-primary: #303030;
--bg-default: #222222;
Edit2: I have now made some small adjustments using the feedback and suggestion I got from you. I'm really grateful for the feedback :)
I also have now two styles, which have slightly different color scheme https://userstyles.world/user/VILPAUTOEE
Keep the feedback coming ;D Thx
This is what’s beautiful in open source. I wonder if any one has had any luck making the old.Reddit nesting style yet
I found this, if it helps. https://userstyles.world/style/10311/old-reddit-ish-lemmy
I really like it. But I also think that it's not a great idea to use colors similar to Reddit, it's best if Lemmy (or each instance) finds its original design for those
Yeah I think so too, and that's why I created two styles with different color schemes. I just think that some reddit refugees might have gotten used to the reddit colors and find them more familiar
Thank you. I took your theme and "nordified" it a bit:
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Now it's in line with the rest of my web apps :)
Looks really great. My first tought was steam
Lemmy Enhance Suite when?
I dont like the wasted vertical space at the top. Regardless, I think it does indeed look better overall, specially the visibility of the cards. Have you thought of doing a PR for this in lemmy-ui?
I haven't yet thought so far, because this was just a personal little project, but I will think about it. I will probably just keep tinkering with this and try to make it better and maybe try to document this little bit
I tweaked margin and padding. Is just a lot of wasted space if you ask me. .post-listing + hr.my-3 { margin-block: 0.2ch !important; } .post-listing { padding: 0.4rem 1rem; } :root { --radius-1: 1px; --radius-2: 2px; --radius-3: 4px; --radius-4: 8px; }
___What's the best way to add this to my instance? I guess it's just additional css to the default css? Can I use the default css and add the userstyles css?
You can add a docker volume mount to app/extra_themes leading to a directory in your volumes directory and then add custom themes in there. Pull the CSS for the theme you want to base off of from lemmy-ui's github. Then add the custom CSS from above. Then set that theme as default for your instance in settings. I did that to my instance to make lemmy wider.
I tried this. I took the default dark theme and tried to add the custom css and it didnt work for me :( Not sure what i did wrong.
To be honest, I'm not really sure, because I don't have much experience with CSS and web developing in general. Maybe someone more experienced could know?
Hey! This looks awesome. Im a programmer working on a UI. I would really really really like to use this and work with you on completing my project.
You can use this freely and I'm open to improvements and changes to the code. You can for example make pull request to the github repo :)
This is just me but I missed the day when the site provided us to customize our profile page. Like friendster for example we can change the look of the buttons, we can change the size of the fonts and etc.
It shows us a little bit of our personality. But I know that it's no longer a thing. The closes experience I could think of is how we design our linux desktop. In windows it would be using rainmeter.
Is there any way to get it working on Android?
Use a browser that allows you to install extensions.
Firefox and brave does not support it, unfortunately. Anyway I found an alternative which is the "thunder" app, although they still do not support comments/new posts. Apart from that it looks excellent and can recommend
The main problem with the Lemmy UI on desktop, IMO, is the cramped and narrow page width. There's so much wasted space on either side of the content.
I'm currently using a customized version of this one: https://github.com/HrBingR/Lemmy_CSS
Noob here. How can I use this?
There should be instructions on my github
If you come across some problems you can dm me
I like the way threaded comments are colored in the default scheme. Makes it very easy to see which subcomment belongs to which parent.
With a bunch of vertical lines, I quickly lose track.
But I very much appreciate all the crafting and tinkering going on! It's nice to see things grow.
Tracing those lines was almost a wasted effort for some more complex threads lol. Start going cross eyed. I like the colors much more.
And what is it with the narrow aspects? I totally get the need for mobile support, but the default desktop view looks like it's trying to play nice with old 4:3 aspects. If that's the root design goal, I sure hope we can let that design goal die. In a 16:9 maximized window there is so much wasted real estate it pains me.
I know - the default layout seems ludicrously cramped on a widescreen monitor. I wonder why the devs ever decided on the default CSS values.
After some tweaking, I'm quite happy with my setup now.
Lemmy doesn't run very well on mobile either. It crashes and burns on my iPad (probably because it doesn't fully support whatever fancy JavaScript it relies on), and Kbin is the only way to connect with Lemmy communities, since their site does work.
I think that’s the websocket connection that they are working on removing in the next version. Should make the loading issues on mobile go away.
That's weird. For me it is kbin that crashes all the time. Lemmy works fine. I like kbin's vibe and concept, I just figured it was still really buggy. Now I'm thinking maybe the problem is on my end.
I've only interacted with Lemmy a few times from a PC, but I can definitely say it looks better your way. I found the webUI frustrating - but it's still in its infantile stage so I can't fault the devs.
It requires tampermonkey, greasemonkey or any equivalent but this also works wonder to get a more compact look while fully utilizing the entire screen.
Very nice, can this be pushed mainstream so it is the default for everybody?
Just wanted to ask your opinion. Which is better color scheme. The reddit colors or the lemmy's?
Reddit:
Lemmy:
Bottom looks better. It would be even better if you replaced the red buttons with blue (blue chrysanthemum shade).
That's kinda how kbin looks like.
Is it supposed to look like this? Some of the text is hard to read and I can't switch to the dark theme, it's always bright.
wow, this is light years ahead of my attempt
This looks really great. Is there an Eli5 on how to install this?
I tried to write some basic instructions on how to install this to the github page's readme file https://github.com/VILPAUTOEE/Lemmy_css
Thank you! I have it installed and working great!
Wow, very nice thanks!
Thanks, this means a lot to me. It's really great to share code
That is a very nice looking css for lemmy!
Thanks for the feedback
Thanks for sharing, need to try this tomorrow!
Edit: Just installed it now, looks perfect! Great job!
I love this so much, but is there any way to either move the floating bar tighter to the top of the page so it doesn't obstruct posts as much, or turn off it's floating?
It should be possible. I will look into that :)
Looks great!, thanks for sharing!
Hi, thanks for the feedback. The extension that userstyles.world redirects you to is Stylus not Stylish. It's a fork of Stylish and they even state on their web site that "Any and all analytics, telemetry, and data-collection have been removed completely. We'd rather not know what you're up to." https://add0n.com/stylus.html
I hope this clear things ;)
ahh, didn't know. Thanks!
Yes! I hate the default look that doesn't separate in "zones"
Super awesome! Appreciate the UI upgrade.
How do I make this apply to my own instance? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I love it, thanks a lot. :) You could add "feddit.de" as a domain as well, it's the same but for German communities.
This looks great!
Thanks you for your feedback
Oh nice! Never used any CSS or user.styles stuff before, but that was easy and worked.
Now watch me be too stupid to try an ever change anything about it for myself...
I'm new to installing custom themes like this and cannot find documentation on the userstyles.world website. Anyone have a description on how to install it?
wow nice! thanks @1337tux@lemmy.world!
I really like the look of that! Thanks for sharing!
I love it! Any possibility to change the ugly teal/green link color to something else? Orange maybe?
A quick fix to that is, if you change the theme from your lemmy settings to darkly-red. I will look into that ;)
