Hello everyone! I’ve pushed out a public alpha build to https://beta.pangora.social for people to start giving feedback on the design before it becomes more fleshed out

Feel free to check it out and say what you like or dont like in the comments here.

⚠ Warning: This is an alpha, things are still very unfinished. You cant use this as an alternative to lemmy-ui yet since things such as logging in aren’t supported

⚠ Warning 2: If you attempt to use this on mobile currently it will be very broken

I constructed the UI by seeing what people liked from lemmy-ui, alexandrite, and photon and trying to match it up to how lemmy-ui is built so that it would be an easy switch between them

Main site mechanics that is different from lemmy-ui

  • Comments from cross-posts show up when looking at a post (will be changed in the future to only communities that community has whitelisted to do it for once I mess around in the backend more)
  • Comments and posts that have 0 or less score in terms of upvotes/downvotes will be collapsed by default
  • Clicking on a post in the post feed makes it show up overlayed on top of the feed similar to alexandrite’s system instead of sending you to a new page. (hitting the name of the post when in this preview state will send you to the actual page)

Images:

  • Ategon@programming.devOPM
    2·
    1 year ago

    The reason for the switch is mostly from a moderation perspective. If its unrestricted showing comments from other communities then people can whip up other communities on some instance and get them to show comments that normally would go against the rules of the community but cant be moderated since the comments arent actually in the community

    Whitelist by default allows people to enable it for communities that they know have active mods and similar rules and ties it in a bit better with another feature which is post sharing which will also be an allowlist as well.

    I could add some sort of button called “show comments from unwhitelisted communities” but it wont be the default

    Requires javascript like every other lemmy frontend since it needs to be reactive and due to how lemmy is setup

    Update: found out mlmym doesnt need javascript. Could see how they deal with things and try to apply it here