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It seems that they need a UI expert.
It seems that they need a UI expert.
I already made a proposal to improve the default theme, but my issue was closed without any response from the developers. The required changes were small on purpose and should be easy to implement for anyone already familiar with the code. So it seems that UI is not a priority to Lemmy developers. That’s why I had to develop my addon, which I then also turned into a theme. I hope that one day Lemmy instances will start using some kind of modern theme (doesn’t have to be mine), so that my addon is no longer needed.
My theme is just a small amount of styles applied on top of the default litely and darkly themes, which should make maintenance easier. Unlike an addon, a theme doesn’t need to support multiple versions of Lemmy at the same time, so we could simplify it even more. Lemmy 0.18 uses CSS variables now, so that also makes things easier.
Something needs to be done about Lemmy’s outdated UI and I’m not sure if the current approach of developing multiple userscripts and addons is efficient. I understand if you think this might cause too much work for you though.
Thank you for your service. Would you be interested in testing my modern UI theme for Lemmy on your instance? It works with Lemmy 0.17 and 0.18.0. You can get the CSS files from the releases page.
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You can then understand why it was created and why it’s important to society. According to the values of Free Software, Apple is an unethical company, because it restricts users freedom and their right to control their own devices. Doing that lets them abuse users by for example taking away their privacy or adding unskippable updates that might slow down their system or do other harmful things.
Free Software fixes this by giving you the freedom to study the program, modify it and distribute it. Just like the scientific knowledge is available to everyone and anyone can improve upon it.
Perhaps you can read about Mastodon and how it works. It’s also federated, but much more popular, so it might be easier to find information about it.
The front-end repository is actually: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
Edit: I suggested some changes to the default theme. Here is the link if anyone wants to take a look: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1183
Looks great!
Would you consider adding my Lemmy theme as well? https://github.com/pkrasicki/lemmy-modern-ui-theme-addon