We added an extra UI for our users. Photon by Xylight is an interface with a sleek, modern look and has all the bells and whistles you would need. Moderator tools included! You can access the UI from https://photon.lemmy.world.
Visit Photon’s project page on github or get in touch with the developer in the !photon@lemmy.xylight.dev community. If you want to use photon on other instances you can do so from https://phtn.app.
Update: @Xylight has set up a donation link so if you like photon as much as I do, show him some love! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xylight
The fact that the login UI has username, password, and 2FA code all on one screen means this immediately wins. I hate this new trend of “put in your email, now go to another screen, put in your password, now go to another screen…” Ugh. My password manager can autofill more than one box at a time, you know!
I don’t know why websites do that, it doesn’t look better, is probably more confusing and in general just slower for everyone
It’s a small piece of a security gate to slow down bots trying to login
Its probably also more difficult to program the functionality into multiple pages as well.
I’ve never seen this separated into multiple actual pages. As long the “multiple pages” are done in JavaScript, they don’t add much complexity.
It allows you to direct users with specific usernames/domains to specific login pages. For example for Single Sign on.
Maybe I’m confusing instances but I was almost positive they all have all those on the main screen?
Not 2fa code. The Lemmy apps have all of those on the sign up page, and so do alternative UIs
Looks fantastic, thanks to the dev for their great work on this!
Too much text. I much prefer a compact view so I can easily scroll past posts that are irrelevant to me
Looks great! :))
This actually isn’t half bad. I’ve been using a.lemmy.world as default for now, and it been really solid
Updated the post to include the new donation link.
This is probably the closest to new reddit we have so far, lots of people won’t use Lemmy because it’s “ugly” so this would be good to recommend
Thanks a ton for hosting this!
if you’re getting a 502 on photon.lemmy.world, you can still try Photon at phtn.app
UI is nice, but can we please have keyboard navigation in one of these?
nice!
DAAYYYUUUMMM. That is stunning! Lemmy should make this theme the default across the verse!
existential crisis in progress
There’s been a lot of lemmy web UIs as of late, but I think this is my favorite so far.
Liking Photon. There are some good QoL improvements over the default UI, such as easy access to changing the theme.
@antik@lemmy.world I’m seeing error code 500 popups when I try to upload an image in photon. This happens when it’s for the post URL, in the post body, or in a comment. When I switch over to plain lemmy.world I am able to create posts/comments with images uploaded.
thanks
