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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.

  • @PwnTra1n
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    51 year ago

    Been using it and I love it. Endless scrolling is something I needed. A few things needed options to toggle nsfw, to blur/unblur nsfw thumbnails, also general options for things like show read posts.

    • @sheodoxOP
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      31 year ago

      Glad you like it! Yes, I need to add some settings for stuff like that, it’s on my todo list!

      What do you mean by “show read posts”?

      • @PwnTra1n
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        31 year ago

        Show/hide read posts. Currently opening in overlay marks it as read so if you refresh it would/not hide with the option.