I’ve been working on an alternative web UI for Lemmy for a couple weeks now and it’s got enough features I wanted to share it. I love that somehow people have found it despite me never having posted online about it until now (until a couple days ago it was called sx-lemmy, sx being an abbreviation of my username) so you might have seen it in a list already.
Alexandrite is a (for the moment) desktop-first Lemmy interface, I primarily use Lemmy on my computer and I wanted a more convenient way to view posts and comments without juggling tabs or losing my place in the feed (with infinite scrolling). It’s still very much in beta, and I have a lot of work to do still, but it’s got most of the basic features.
You can view a post and comments in an overlay without losing where you scrolled to:
A non-exhaustive list of things you can do:
- view home/community/user/communities feeds
- post/comment
- subscribe to communities
- vote
- save posts
- search
- inbox stuff
Noteworthy missing features:
- reporting
- blocking users/communities
- mod tools
- image uploading
- automatic linkifying of urls/communities/users in comments/posts
For those who care, it’s all Sveltekit which is a dream to work with. Alexandrite is the name of the kind of gem in my wife’s wedding ring, it looks cool and changes color in the light.
The way I’ve coded such things is just to count the length of the string in the field and then do an if() to test if’s greater than or less than a specific length. I’m surprised Lemmy doesn’t do that.
Thanks are due to you, not me, for helping me figure this out :)
Hey I pushed some changes, including a 60 character maxlength. If you’re self hosting the dev version you’ll need to
git pull,npm installagain and re-runnpm run dev. The npm install is because I had to add support for maxlength to the text inputs which I import from my own UI library, and I needed to bump the version for that.