Comment on What are the best features of Lemmy that aren't available in Reddit?
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 9 months ago
Third party clients. Specifically alternate web UI’s like Alexandrite because if I’m being honest here, I think the comment nesting in Lemmy’s offical web UI lacks distinction which makes following conversations frustrating. Without Alexandrite I’d most likely be a mobile app (Voyager) user only.
otter@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
To those downvoting: save the downvotes for comments that aren’t productive, this is a pretty reasonable answer
The comment also highlights this same point. The different UI’s make it so that everyone can have an experience that they enjoy, mobile and web.
For example, we have these:
theKalash@feddit.ch 9 months ago
The topic specifically asks for features that are NOT availible for reddit.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 months ago
Does reddit have user editable front ends you can host yourself?
theKalash@feddit.ch 9 months ago
Yes.
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 9 months ago
Yes, and third party clients, specifically alternate web UIs are not available on Reddit.
theKalash@feddit.ch 9 months ago
But they are …
otter@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
It was borderline, but I found it to still be true
People made their own frontends, which could then hosted officially by the instance with the resources to go with it.
That doesn’t happen with Reddit, where the alternative frontends are run separately and the usefulness varies
nameasd@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
photon looks good, Are there any other ui shells?
otter@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Those are the only ones I know about
There’s also this one but I don’t think any instances are running it
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB