Very new to lemmy, and I’m pretty lost, but if I’ve stuck around is because of photon, it made it at least a bit more accessible to find stuff and get a reddit like feel without much effort.
TIL: photon is an awesome opinionated web client for Lemmy to help users discover the fediverse.
Submitted 2 months ago by juergen@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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wipe3257@programming.dev 2 months ago
pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And tesseract is this on steroids.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Looks like a custom client. Cool
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Awesome, love the design - something new for the homelab!
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 months ago
This is what feddit.nl uses as an alternative UI. It seems to me pretty much the UI of new reddit vs the default which is more the old UI of reddit. Also images don’t load well on photon. If you click into them, they are often the thumbnail just blown up instead of the full res version.
madjo@feddit.nl 2 months ago
There’s also old.feddit.nl if you want an almost exact old.reddit experience
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What does “opinionated” mean in this context?
misk@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It doesn’t try to cater to everyone and there might be controversial design choices. This can mean anything from something great and ahead of time to absolute horrors of user interface design depending on your perspective and a particular app in question. I really like what Photon does and how polished it is but it’s definitely not for me.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 months ago
Lol I tried the absolute horror for half a minute before I deleted it
Xylight@lemdro.id 2 months ago
It means that design choices and features I implement will follow what I believe to be optimal. I still try to consider what the users think, but the overall organization will prioritize my thought. It sounds narcissistic, but other software often follows this pattern.
It’s why Photon will rarely implement random features if I deem it to be something left to another tool, because my opinion is that it should remain simple unless the feature will significantly improve the user experience.