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Ideas for an alternative lemmy frontend? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.