You can now test the alternative Photon UI for Lemmy on:
It’s one of the few alternative UIs for Lemmy that includes moderation features, so that makes it interesting as a replacement for the default Lemmy-UI.
Right now it is still early days and Photon is very actively developed, so don’t expect a perfectly polished experience. Once it stabilizes, there is a chance we will switch over to it as the main UI for Slrpnk though, as the current official Lemmy-UI is not very actively maintained any more with the main developer working on a re-write.
Update: Linked in the sidebar now. Will probably take a few more weeks/months before it can be used as a full replacement of the lemmy-ui though. Looking very nice overall though.
I really like that layout. The one we’ve got now is good, but some of the things, like ellipses leave me wanting.
I’ve been using your Photon link as a local browser for slrpnk.net when I’m sitting at the desktop (so I can test it out).
It’s my choice out of the 2 (photon/alexandrite) but that doesn’t take away from alex, choice is the spice of life. I do like old for the nostalgia but being able to read into the posts a little bit on photon is a bonus.
If @Xylight@lemmy.world is still into developing then all the better. Some of my apps that I was trialling have gone dead, same as our instance, same as my love for posting news so if Xylight is keen, good on them! Keep it up!
I’m not stopping anytime soon!
Do I understand the changelog correctly that you added an automatic login cookie migration for using Photon as a drop-in replacement for Lemmy-ui recently?
Yea if you’re logged in to lemmy-ui and then photon is put on the domain of lemmy-ui then it will see the leftover cookie and create a photon account
you have to enable it manually, though
