Hey there everyone. I think the Photon project has matured enough to the point where I feel ready to replace the default lemmy frontend with it. Since this instance serves roughly 1000 people now, I figured this was worth holding a vote on!

Please check out Photon as currently hosted at https://p.lemdro.id.

If you support changing the default frontend to Photon, upvote my comment on this post. If you don’t support it, downvote that same comment.

Thanks!

  • coleOPMA
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    If you support changing the default frontend to Photon, upvote this comment! If you don’t support it, downvote this comment!

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      My vote goes to whatever makes you feel like you’re offering the best experience to your users. People that don’t like it can always switch to the old one.

      I think it makes sense as a mobile-focused instance. Wouldn’t surprise me most of us are using mobile apps anyway…

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        1 year ago

        Photon is quite good on desktop as well! I appreciate your feedback

      • Resolved3874
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        1 year ago

        Personally I very rarely browse on the web but the default web UI is kinda crappy imo.

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        1 year ago

        it’s not going away!

      • ldr7352
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        1 year ago

        old

        Has it been down the last couple of days? I’m getting a Cloudflare error

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          Fyi, it should be fixed now

    • TheMadnessKing
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      1 year ago

      Photon has cards and looks so good. Take my upvote and set it default when possible.

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    1 year ago

    FYI: Photon doesn’t have the routes for “verify email”, “forgot password”, or “change password” at the moment. You’ll need to pass /password_change, /verify_email, and /login_reset to lemmy-ui until support is added and add links to your site info or somewhere people can find them.

    Ran into that when I moved it to my Apex domain and demoted lemmy-ui.

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    While I personally use alexandrite on desktop and Sync on mobile, I absolutely think that Photon looks fantastic these days and certainly deserves to be the default experience for lemdroid. I would feel proud to share a lemdroid link to someone random knowing that it would show them this nice of a front end.

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    Not being familiar with Photon vs. Lemmy front end, I’ll risk sounding ignorant with the following questions.

    Will anything change in my user experience? Can I still use the same app (Connect) and username to see the same fediverse?

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      Nothing changes if you already use a different frontend or app, so no action from you! But, for example, if you sent a lemdro.id post link to a friend the interface they’d see would be different

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        1 year ago

        Thanks for the explanation. Seems good to me, so I’ll upvote your original comment.

  • ParadoxMA
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    Yes, move default to old or default or classic or some similar subdomain

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    I often use Connect on mobile. Like what someone else said, maybe have a voting poll (or upvoting comments) for what front end is the best?

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      I really think Photon fits my philosophy for what I want this instance to look like, which is why it isn’t just a “vote for the one you like”. But I have others available as options of course!

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      it’s going to happen, but I’m working on fine-tuning and testing Photon as currently hosted on p.lemdro.id before we fully migrate. Need to verify SSR support so we be properly indexed by search engines