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Alexandrite UI: https://a.lemmy.world (a.lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by antik@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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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[–] gon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Looks fantastic!!

[–] davetansley@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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).

[–] abominabledrh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Nice! Thank you.

[–] XIX@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is amazing.

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SomethingBurger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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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[–] leraje@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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 :)

[–] MakeItCount@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Looks great but really needs a light theme

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[–] gon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Wow it looks amazing!!

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Great work Sheodox. Its beautiful!

[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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[–] personalife@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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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[–] valen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] nanny07@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] sheodox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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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[–] Techie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Looks really nice!

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

[–] gon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

looks great!!

[–] gon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

looks great!!

[–] s0phia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Very nice looking

[–] davetansley@mastodonapp.uk 4 points 1 year 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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[–] worsedoughnut@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year 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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[–] orphiebaby@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] antik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] kalanthil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for all your hard work.

[–] dimspace@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Working for me now.

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

[–] sheodox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

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