Technology @lemmy.world juergen @feddit.org 3d ago

TIL: photon is an awesome opinionated web client for Lemmy to help users discover the fediverse.

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Github: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon

important instance shit @awful.systems self @awful.systems 1y ago

does anyone use or want the Photon alternative lemmy UI?

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Android @lemdro.id Xylight (Photon dev) @lemmy.xylight.dev 2y ago

Photon v0.9.24: Modlog!

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What does "opinionated" mean in this context?
- It doesn’t try to cater to everyone and there might be controversial design choices. This can mean anything from something great and ahead of time to absolute horrors of user interface design [link removed] depending on your perspective and a particular app in question. I really like what Photon does and how polished it is but it’s definitely not for me.
  
  Lol I tried the absolute horror pipilo for half a minute before I deleted it
- It means that design choices and features I implement will follow what I believe to be optimal. I still try to consider what the users think, but the overall organization will prioritize my thought. It sounds narcissistic, but other software often follows this pattern.
  
  It's why Photon will rarely implement random features if I deem it to be something left to another tool, because my opinion is that it should remain simple unless the feature will significantly improve the user experience.
Very new to lemmy, and I'm pretty lost, but if I've stuck around is because of photon, it made it at least a bit more accessible to find stuff and get a reddit like feel without much effort.
And tesseract is this on steroids.
Looks like a custom client. Cool
You know what would be really cool? Mbin support!
- I'll need to implement something for multi API support once Lemmy 1.0 releases, and I could probably add basic mbin support there when that happens
  
  Cool, thanks! Looking forward to it.
This is what feddit.nl uses as an alternative UI. It seems to me pretty much the UI of new reddit vs the default which is more the old UI of reddit. Also images don't load well on photon. If you click into them, they are often the thumbnail just blown up instead of the full res version.
- There’s also https://old.feddit.nl/ if you want an almost exact old.reddit experience
Awesome, love the design - something new for the homelab!

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