Submitted 3 weeks ago by lodion@aussie.zone to meta@aussie.zone
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!
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.
I like it,but am scared to use it if it might be taken away
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.
It’s nice to have access to a compact layout. The in-built Lemmy compact themes are ineffective, as far as I can tell.
Old is always nice, but indeed the dev doesn’t seem active anymore
trk@aussie.zone 6 days ago
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 6 days 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.