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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!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Looks fantastic!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yooo, this is dope. Looks great, responsive, and good use of screen space. I love the retractable sidebar.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I kinda like the general layout, but that color scheme is annoying. Can I change it somehow?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Looks great but really needs a light theme

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Wow it looks amazing!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 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 :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

This is amazing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Nice! Thank you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

And the developer is quick to add features. Highly recommended for desktop.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Great work Sheodox. Its beautiful!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Says I'm rate limited, then on refresh, banned. I don't think any other person in my household uses lemmy.world at all, so I wonder if it's just the high amount of traffic going to it from Comcast users.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I like it but one thing I would change is the position of my subscribed community: from the left self-hiding sidebar to the righ always visible one

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's an option in the settings that makes the left sidebar not auto-hide if you just want to always be able to see them.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Doesn't work. It says I'm temporarily banned.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Looks really nice!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

rate limited wtf

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thank you for all your hard work.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@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!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

looks great!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

looks great!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Looks great, but I need a light version. (Don't hate :P )

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Wow, I love this a lot. Initially chuckled at the theme color slider in the settings, but it's unironically a great way to edit that haha.

My instance (lemdro.id) has Photon as their modern look alternative, which also looks pretty sleek IMO, but I think I'll be using this going forward mostly because it's more desktop-looking than Photon's more mobile-centric layout.

Fantastic work on this, can't wait to see how it grows going forward.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Working for me now.

just needs "alexandrite" in the header changing to lemmy.world i think, and maybe the logo changing

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Yep, I'm actually working on making those changes now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Very nice looking

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks good! Sadly I can't seem to login with my lemmy.dbzer0.com account though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

No, this is only for lemmy.world accounts but you can go to alexandrite.app and login there with any instance account.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The layout doesn't work very well with narrow window widths, or on mobile screens. It's only comfortable to use if you expand the window to at least a 1080p window width, so it's not very useful on a desktop using tiling window management.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

rate limited and banned from server message for me as well.

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