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New lemmy UI frontends installed (literature.cafe)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gabe@literature.cafe to c/meta@literature.cafe
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https://m.literature.cafe - voyager/mobile site

https://a.literature.cafe - alexandrite

https://old.literature.cafe - old reddit style

~~https://ph.literature.cafe - photon (kinda glitchy)~~ had to remove cause its too wonky

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[–] lightsecond@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There unfortunately isn’t a way to force the UI to be one of those ones by default for literature.cafe [...] Doing so would break federation.

Isn't the UI separate from the backend and run as a separate process? I haven't done this nor seen anyone else do this yet so this is just an educated guess, but I believe this means that anything the standard lemmy-ui can do can be done by calling the APIs directly, ergo you can host a custom frontend on https://literature.cafe without breaking federation. But I guess that doing that would need extra work for you every time you want to upgrade because now you can't use the standard docker image?

I mostly use mobile apps so the web frontend does not make a difference to me. I actually like the default one for my desktop. πŸ™‚

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

More choice is good which is the reason why the UI are the focus. But alongside that I do use a rather custom setup so the traffic funnels thru traefik so I can automate my certificates and make things easier to install new web blocks on different ports and subdomains, I don't wanna tinker with that and risk breaking federation. I also do like the default one as well, there's some quirks I wish were different though but things will change in time.