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Hi all,

A new front end has popped up! Blorp is a desktop and mobile UI you can try out right now!

Blorp even has a Lemmy community - !blorp@lemmy.ml, if you try it out I'm sure the dev would love some feedback :)

You can access it via blorp.lemmy.zip (and, if you're reading this on Piefed.zip, you can access it via blorp.piefed.zip!).

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend! :)

Demigodrick

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[–] moseschrute@lemmy.zip 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is crazy. I've been working on Blorp for a year, and it still blows my mind that people want to use it. Means the world to me. Don't hesitate to report bugs or make feature requests.
GitHub | Lemmy community | Matrix

[–] rottenwheel@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

is there a way for you to, on feed, or home, switch it from relevant to recent, to get the latest, regardless of vote count? I only see how to switch to All, Moderating, Subscribed...

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

There should be a sort selector. On mobile it’s in the top right corner to the left of the user icon/avatar. On web, you scroll up to the top of the feed and it’s above the first post. I believe it defaults to “active” so look for “active” on desktop or a person running icon on mobile.

[–] rottenwheel@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This looks fantastic! Have you always been a lemmy.zip user, or?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have a bunch of accounts tbh. I try to test Blorp on as many instances as I can. For example, Lemmy.ml had a bug where they would block requests that didn’t append the clients name to the user agent. Wouldn’t have caught that quickly without testing it myself. And now I’m doing a lot of PieFed testing.

But I’ve been a zip user since ee shut down.

[–] Lumun@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago

Sweet! Always nice to have more options. Hope you have a good weekend too, Demigodrick

[–] three@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Zeebfu is now blorp! It's just blorping good!

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's literally on Blorp!

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not for me I think. On desktop, seems to be much like Tesseract but a little less busy. Alexandrite is just about tolerable and the default frontend is acceptable with dark theming. Newer frontends seem to focus more on big images and spoon-feeding posts bit by bit in a scrolly, algo-friendly manner. I'm more of a reader, so lots of scrolling for comparatively little output won't ever get along with me. It's like having a restaurant menu read out to you at the table dish by dish, instead of just simply being given the menu to pick from.

Can't comment for mobile, as a dedicated app will beat any web based frontend. There's just no use case in a mobile frontend for me.

Favourite will always be mlmym; hoping it continues to be maintained in forks as it seems to be mostly abandoned by the original author. It puts the most info in the space available, while remaining spartan and uncluttered.

Alternatives are always good though, even when they don't fit personal preference. I can see how others who have settled on the newer frontends up until now might appreciate Blorp a lot. I realise I am old, grumpy & in the minority on this one.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

You're not alone!

I settled on Photon (https://m.lemmy.zip/) for the time being as it has enough configuration options to tailor the experience and their compact mode is great.

[–] bestonecrazy@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is an attempt to recreate modern SITE NAME's UI for Lemmy. This is honestly good at it's job.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thank you! There’s still a lot of work to do, but please submit feature requests

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Site name? What?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nice to see another frontend even as it's unusable for me without compact mode.

Looking at GitHub it's marketed primary as mobile frontend. I would be curious know if desktop experience planned to be improved.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Compact mode is on my todo list! Sorry for the delay. My intention wasn't to mark the repo as being mobile first.

Depends on what you mean by improved. I'm pretty set on the current desktop layout, but there are a lot of small things that need to be improved: post/image sharing, private message loading is kinda terrible, missing comment search, lack of moderation features, custom emoji are missing.

If it's those type of things, I would say expect improvement! If you want multi column scroll with post feed on the left and the post with comments on the right, Blorp might not be for you.

But yeah, I'd love to here what you are thinking!

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The opening page on the repo directly promotes mobile experience.


Some of the feature suggestions for better desktop experience:

  • Full width mode
  • Showing post author on the timeline
  • Showing quick post/comment actions. Right now it's just unused space next to the vote/comment buttons.
  • Opening posts in a new tab

Also my profile function seems to be broken. I'm logged in, but it doesn't show.


Good luck with the development.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah good point with GiHub promoting mobile.

For the login, I’m trying to debug. In the dropdown, if you click settings, what do you see under “Account 1”?

Are you confident the login was successful? Are you able to vote, view inbox, or any other action that requires auth?

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I can access the inbox, vote, leave comments, create posts, access subscribing and moderating feeds, etc.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think I know exactly what is happening. I’m publishing 1.9.4 with a fix. This is the first update I’m publishing since blorp.lemmy.zip and blorp.piefed.zip were setup, so I’m not sure how quickly that bug fix will propigate or if the admins need to manually update. Sorry for the inconvenience.