We just added Alexandrite to the server, it’s an alternative desktop UI for Lemmy created by Sheodox who worked tirelessly to make the necessary changes to we could host it ourselves here. So go to https://a.lemmy.world and have a look!

He continues to update it constantly, you can follow the development on his github page or in his community. If you like what you see and want to support him, why not buy him a coffee? :)

For those who don’t have Lemmy World as their home instance and want to use Alexandrite, either ask your instance admins to add it or go to https://alexandrite.app!

Edit: I should probably have mentioned that Alexandrite is meant for desktop!

  • Dave
    4•2 years ago

    @antik Amazing! Alexandrite has become my absolute favourite way to browse lemmy over the last few weeks. Great to see it become part of .world!

    • Antik 👾OP
      8•2 years ago

      Yep, loved it so much I contacted @[email protected] to help us add it to the instance. He added some changes to Selfhost, put it all in a docker container and made it all happen in a couple of days ❤️

      I’m sure more admins will be adding it to their instance!

    • P03 LockeEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Yeah, I tried to reload the page because it already showed an error.

      I did get a successful hit on the web page. It’s good that they are finally tackling the screen width issue. It also comes with auto-reloads as well.

      My only complaint is that the items are a bit too tall. It could be shrink down to a more compact space to fit more items per screen-full.

    • Antik 👾OP
      57•2 years ago

      Rate limits are being tweaked to combat ddos. You might experience some issues while they are being optimised. Apologies

    • LerajeEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      Yep, just go to ‘Settings’ under the Profile icon, top right.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•2 years ago

      There’s a slider in the settings for the hue used for all the background/borders/text etc, so you can change it from purple to other colors, like:

      Eventually I plan on adding more customization so you can change the colors of links/votes, and I need to make a light theme because so many people want that too.

    • Something Burger 🍔English
      4•2 years ago

      You can change the colors but not remove them entirely. It’s not possible to have it entirely white on black.

    • Antik 👾OP
      22•2 years ago

      Rate limits are being tweaked to combat ddos. You might experience some issues while they are being optimised. Apologies

  • LerajeEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    This is excellent news :) I’ve been using Alexandrite since u/sheodox announced it so I’m very pleased to see it added as a dedicated front end for .world :)

  • DaveEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    Great stuff! I’ve been using Alexandrite for the last few weeks and it’s become my default UI. I love that you can pin the navigation bar open and favourite communities (click on the icon to star it).