I love some of the features Piefed has, and like not tacitly supporting tankies, but I absolutely cannot stand Piefed’s web UI. The inbox is almost impossible to work with, and there’s something just a little awkward about basic post comment pages.

So first, have people made good alternative front-ends for Piefed? And if so, does Quokkau have support for any of them?

Bonus question: any recommendations for an Android app? I’ve been using Summit, but it has a pretty awful user interface in almost an identical way to the biggest problems with the Piefed web.

  • Quokka@quokk.auMEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I have been informed there is Blorp and Photon

    blorp.piefed.zip & photon.piefed.zip if you want to see them in action. Ideally I don’t want to increase my workload too much by adding both (I can, I’m lazy but will if everyone wants) do you have a preference on which you might like?

    • moseschrute
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      3 days ago

      Blorp dev here. A few things I wanna add:

      • If you don’t wanna host Blorp, you can link out to the main Blorp website, and prompt users to use your instance blorpblorp.xyz/instance?q=quokk.au. You can put whatever instance you want for the “q” url param.
      • Here are instructions on how to configure and self host Blorp deploy.blorpblorp.xyz
      • Tbh, Photon has kept up with PieFed more quickly than Blorp, but I’m working on more PieFed integration. Photon is also a great app. But Blorp also works as an iOS/Android app. If you want a unified cross app platform experience for your users, Blorp is the way to go in my biased opinion.
      • Follow [email protected] for updates
      • Quokka@quokk.auMEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Thanks for popping in. Does Blorp offer any alternative colour schemes, or the ability to create custom ones?

        • moseschrute
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          1 day ago

          It doesn’t. How much customization were you thinking? The easiest solution would be env vars that change the primary and secondary colors in the app. More customization would be cool, but also more work to setup.

  • Quokka@quokk.auMEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Hey, sorry I forgot to set up notifications for new posts here so I was only recently informed this was here.

    We do not have any at present, but I will look into that for you over the weekend and if there is I will try to set something up for you.

    I have used Voyager and Mlem on iOS, I believe Voyager is also on Android. There’s also Blorp and Interstellar but have never used them, do hear a bit of mention for Blorp however.