Still incredibly new to all this, so sorry if this a daft question/ wrong place to put it.
But I came across this prefix you can apply to eg - Lemmy.World: https://old.lemmy.world/. It applies an “Old Reddit” theme to Lemmy. I tried it on a couple of communities, and it seems to work.
Except for Feddit.uk.
Anyone know what’s up with that? Who doesn’t old.feddit.uk work?
(Again - sorry if this is a silly question).
old.feddit.uk is currently back. I’ll monitor it for the next few hours to see if it can stay up.
We had to turn old.feddit.uk off because it was getting hammered by bots and dragging the performance down. See the sidebar for other alternative frontends.
Ah sweet, thanks for the info. I’ll take a look at the other frontends. Cheers!
To be honest, I think they’re both better than.old - they look nicer and have excellent functionality.
They are:
- Photon - definitely my pick
- Alexandrite
We’ve also had a chat about adding Tesseract too.
The front end and back end of Lemmy are decoupled. This means you’re using lemmy through a web app amd API, and it also means third parties can create alternatuve front ends.
There’s an increasing number of them.
The “old” front end is one of these. It doesn’t ship with Lemmy, and needs to be installed and maintained separately by the site’s admins. Not everyone is going to bother, any more than they’re going to bother hosting Tesseract or Voyager.
I think the instance needs to have these interfaces installed, I guess feddit.uk doesn’t.
We did (see the sidebar) but had to take old.feddit.uk because it was getting hammered by bots. We’ve improved the security, so it might be we can bring it back. @[email protected] is more knowledgeable about such matters though, so I am tagging them in.
It would probably be fine to bring it back now we IP ban AI scrapers, though I’d want to monitor it for a bit to make sure. I’ll spin it back up tomorrow evening as I have time then.
Great, it seems there is demand for it, even if I think it is an eyesore.
