cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/647564
Cross posting this here as this is would likely interest other people in the Lemmy part of the fediverse. I’ll still contribute to the official UI too, though.
The other day I started making a UI for lemmy with a different framework than is used by the official one as a way of getting some hands on experience with SolidJS. I considered making a clone of the existing UI, but I started thinking that I could make it look different. Since lemmy doesn’t tie you to a specific UI, it could be nice to give instances another option. At the moment, the only web UIs I know of for lemmy is the official one and the bulletin board one. Does anyone have any ideas about this?
Also sleepless I really need to interest you in some leptos / cargo-leptos . It takes a lot of inspiration from solid, and I’ve been making some smaller test projects with it, and love it.
In a few weeks I also want to start a minimal lemmy front end using it, and we could potentially build that together rather than duplicating efforts on different UIs.
I’ve dabbled in leptos before. It seems good and has been gettingba lotb of development. I’ll need to get a better handle on Rust, but that’s about it.
Nice, I’m def excited abt it. I’ve been re-writing some of my smaller web-apps with it, and its been great to work with. I’ve invested years in the jsx / react / inferno model, and have been waiting for something in rust that reaches inferno’s performance. I think we’re finally there.
I think the best UIs to gain inspiration from nowadays, aren’t on the web, but smartphone apps. There’s a ton of variety and ways to display social-networks. And in the case of reddit, the app UIs are better than the site itself.
I made jerboa taking inspiration from boost, a really clean reddit client. But you could take any app UI, and create a web UI using it as inspiration.
Another one: you could easily make lemmy into a facebook / conventional social network type interface. You could even make the comment feed the primary view, rather than posts.
Not what you are thinking about but I really like statically generated pages like teddit, libreddit, nitter etc. do.
Someday I would like to see a website with an oval, rather than a rectangular web design. No particular practical reason I can think of other than it would be really cool. The html/css would be difficult, might have to use svgs.
I think the main problem is that screens tend to be rectangular than oblong.
The real problem is that html is basically just rectangles nested within rectangles.
I was thinking of a frontend to turn Lemmy into a blogging software. I think the backend has all the required functionality. An image gallery could also be good, like scrolller.com.
Is it worth it? I think there are many solutions for federated blogging.
I thinks it’s better to focus on lemmy itself as a reddit alternative as it’s the only one (or almost) in the scene.