cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/647564
Cross posting this here as this is would likely interest other people in the Lemmy part of the fediverse. I’ll still contribute to the official UI too, though.
The other day I started making a UI for lemmy with a different framework than is used by the official one as a way of getting some hands on experience with SolidJS. I considered making a clone of the existing UI, but I started thinking that I could make it look different. Since lemmy doesn’t tie you to a specific UI, it could be nice to give instances another option. At the moment, the only web UIs I know of for lemmy is the official one and the bulletin board one. Does anyone have any ideas about this?
Also sleepless I really need to interest you in some leptos / cargo-leptos . It takes a lot of inspiration from solid, and I’ve been making some smaller test projects with it, and love it.
In a few weeks I also want to start a minimal lemmy front end using it, and we could potentially build that together rather than duplicating efforts on different UIs.
I’ve dabbled in leptos before. It seems good and has been gettingba lotb of development. I’ll need to get a better handle on Rust, but that’s about it.
Nice, I’m def excited abt it. I’ve been re-writing some of my smaller web-apps with it, and its been great to work with. I’ve invested years in the jsx / react / inferno model, and have been waiting for something in rust that reaches inferno’s performance. I think we’re finally there.
I was thinking of a frontend to turn Lemmy into a blogging software. I think the backend has all the required functionality. An image gallery could also be good, like scrolller.com.
A blogging software could be interesting. Maybe something like a self-hostable substack. Bloggers could be instance admins (although I guess moderators could be added as contributors or co-admins if the blog is collaborative). Users could use Lemmy’s RSS feature to subscribe without needing email. The only rub I see is what to do with communities. I’m not sure how to translate that to a blog in a way that makes sense.
Users can signup and create communities (blogs). These are automatically set to “only mods can post” by the frontend. This way there can be multiple blogs per user. There are already Writefreely and Plume which work more or less like that afaik.
Is it worth it? I think there are many solutions for federated blogging.
I thinks it’s better to focus on lemmy itself as a reddit alternative as it’s the only one (or almost) in the scene.
For sure, an image gallery-type site could be neat.
I think the best UIs to gain inspiration from nowadays, aren’t on the web, but smartphone apps. There’s a ton of variety and ways to display social-networks. And in the case of reddit, the app UIs are better than the site itself.
I made jerboa taking inspiration from boost, a really clean reddit client. But you could take any app UI, and create a web UI using it as inspiration.
Another one: you could easily make lemmy into a facebook / conventional social network type interface. You could even make the comment feed the primary view, rather than posts.
Someday I would like to see a website with an oval, rather than a rectangular web design. No particular practical reason I can think of other than it would be really cool. The html/css would be difficult, might have to use svgs.
I think the main problem is that screens tend to be rectangular than oblong.
The real problem is that html is basically just rectangles nested within rectangles.
Not what you are thinking about but I really like statically generated pages like teddit, libreddit, nitter etc. do.
I’ve seen a few interesting ones over the years. A couple of apps: Lemmur and Jerboa. LemmyBB. But there was also a plain text-based one I thought I saw a long time ago that I can’t find again.
