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!
When I try to post anything with Alexandrite active I get told something about Language not Allowed or some similar alert. I like the look, but the inability to post is kind of a deal breaker.
Some communities can restrict which languages you’re allowed to post in, and I haven’t yet made Alexandrite respect that list, I imagine that’s what you’re running into. Fixing this is on my todo list!
It would be nice if that was some way for them to just work out what language you’re typing in.
Hey, just wanted to let you know this should be fixed now!
There are a few moving parts here: instances have a list of all languages it knows about, admins can restrict what can be used on the site (“discussion languages”), and communities can further restrict what languages they allow (if no mods speak Swedish, no use allowing it because you can’t moderate it), and on top of that you can select which languages you use in Lemmy’s settings. Alexandrite now respects all these settings/restrictions.
Some communities only allow posting in “Undetermined”, and Alexandrite defaults to selecting “English”, so if it was in one of those communities that’s why you were having issues. Should be good now though.