Alternative Frontends added and using photon frontend as default

After some constant issues with lemmy's default UI and its interaction with other services, I've opted add all of the most mature alternative web frontends: photon (looks like "new reddit", will be the default and also available at https://photon.communick.news), mlmym (looks like "old reddit", available at https://classic.communick.news) and voyager (looks like apollo, available at https://m.communick.news)

Later this week I hope to have a proper post-mortem. I'm still not sure what is the issue with lemmy-ui, but these changes was a good lesson in how to setup the Lemmy backend without the UI and also on how to deploy Lemmy in scenarios that are more complex than the one for self-hosters.

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To complete the round of common frontends, I just added alexandrite at https://web.communick.news.
If you think that the default should be changed to it, let me know.

Photon is great! Nice upgrade. 👍
- Funny, I'm still struggling with it a bit. Have you found the location to get notifications about new comments or reports? I know I can just browse to the inbox, but all the others have a icon for notifications...
  
  Okay. After spending some real time with it. There are some issues.
  Like you mentioned, there's no Inbox New indicator.
  Text presentation and editing isn't quite right.
  New lines and paragraphs are handheld differently in the editor.
  Paragraphs have extra margin/padding on the right that List items don't have.
  The text preview doesn't match the results.
  
  I'll add more as I discover it.
  Edit: As pretty as it is. Photon still needs quite a bit of attention to the text editing and presentation. I'd kinda like the default interface back. Is that possible?
  
  Haven't seen that yet. But I haven't had any notifications either. I only spent about 15 or so min with it last night.

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