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Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone (old.aussie.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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I've spun this up for fun, to see how it compares to the base lemmy UI. Give it a whirl, and post any feedback in this thread. Enjoy!

It could go down at any time, as it looks as though the dev is no longer maintining it...

edit: using this https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

UPDATE Tuesday 12/11: I've killed this off for now. Unclear of why, but was seeing a huge number of requests from this frontend to the lemmy server back end. Today it alone sent ~40% more requests than all clients and federation messages combined.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

For me the biggest advantage of old UI on Reddit was with what RES could provide in terms of keyboard shortcuts etc. Since this doesn't seem to have that, for me I don't see a whole lot of value.

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's nice to have access to a compact layout. The in-built Lemmy compact themes are ineffective, as far as I can tell.

[–] Blaze 1 points 3 weeks ago

Old is always nice, but indeed the dev doesn't seem active anymore

[–] trk@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just came here to say it wasn't working, but looks like it got switched off a few days back.

I really like the old.reddit layout, so I'd be a huge fan if it was able to be used here too. No biggie if it cant, standard Lamington is pretty uncluttered anyway. Just not very compact. Whats with web devs and whitespace? I'm here to see content, not empty pixels.

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah I like it too... but it was generating an abnormal amount of traffic. I'll see if I can figure out what is going on... but mlmym is pretty basic, doesn't seem to have much in the way of configuration options.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like it,but am scared to use it if it might be taken away

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's just a UI, all the content itself is in the same backend. It's very light weight to host, so I'd only shut it down if it has issues.. eg security or interop with future Lemmy versions.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Speaking of security,.an abandoned app is a prime candidate for capturing user/password....

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Thing is... I'm not sure if its abandonded, or there have been no breaking changes in recent versions of lemmy so no dev work has been required. Last release was in July, and the dev himself has been active on Github recently.