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Alexandrite is a Beautiful Web Frontend for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)
submitted 1 year ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm using it right now on new.endlesstalk.org

It's beautiful yes, but it's also kinda dumb. Lots of page elements (like the community banner and notifications section) need manually refreshing to show anything, and I need to press 'Go' after changing view (like Subscribed/All or Hot/New) like the web of ancient times. This may just be how it's implemented at endlesstalk, but there's other irritations like not having the option to upload a picture when creating posts, and it not actually doing anything if I change my settings to toggle 'Show NSFW'

[–] darcmage@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It looks like that instance isn't using the most up-to-date version since the "press go" issue has been fixed. Try to keep in mind that the initial commit was on June 24 and it's still very early in the development stage. If you look at the commits, you can see the developer has been very active.

[–] Lycan@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, according to the article this project is less than a month old! I'm sure it will continue to improve.

[–] stagen@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

Using it right now and I'm astounded by how smooth it is. Will be using this for the desktop from now on.

[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Its horrible

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't like webui's for lemmy. This means they're getting all your traffic. It's a mitm situation again, much like google's amp links.

If I'm running a dedicated app, I can validate that my traffic is going directly to my instance and not being farmed and sold by a 3rd party behind the scenes.

[–] curiousgoo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uhh.. not clear on what you're claiming here... you can validate the traffic is going to the expected instance using a web app, without requiring any special software by running Developer tools and heading to the network tab.

[–] AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Web front ends currently require a backend service that then routes to your intended destination because Lemmy servers by default are configured with cors to only allow requests from their intended domain. There is a PR to fix it but I don't believe it's been merged in. This may be out of date but that was true as of a few weeks ago per the dev of Voyager which is the web frontend I use

edit: this is no longer true. A PR 2 weeks ago fixed this issue and web front ends are able to work just as well as a native app now.

[–] aserraric@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've looked at the traffic, and all calls go directly to the API of my instance. I don't think Alexandrite even runs a backend.

[–] AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Turns out the cors issue was fixed the other week. Nevermind then.

[–] curiousgoo@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I see, but how is this different in a phone app? Wouldn't the request still be made to a backend?

[–] AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

1.) Turns out this is no longer true because the cors issue is fixed as of two weeks ago.

But to answer your question:

Well that's the really silly part about it. You see, the way CORS works is that it only works if the client making the request implements cors. In this case when I say client I'm talking about your web browser itself. Native applications, or hitting an API directly via network calls, don't implement cors and thus you can make the calls all you want and the server responds. So even when cors was configured to only allow requests from the correct domain it only affected people with web browsers.

However two weeks ago a PR was merged into the Lemmy source code setting the cors to by default allow requests from anyone instead of a specific domain.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, that is much nicer. Though I would have settled just for "default opening links in new tabs"

[–] Zeus@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can do that with a userscript if you want to keep the lemmy interface

although i do not understand why people like this. just middle click instead?

[–] accesslog@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t use mouse so no middle click.

Where is the userscript option? Using a browser extension?

[–] Zeus@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

this is a userscript that i'm using, and has the option to enable open all links in new tab. i also found this whilst searching for it just now, but i haven't used it

but what device are you using that doesn't have a mouse, trackpad, or ctrl key?

[–] accesslog@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I do use trackpad but I prefer one-click setting like I have it on old.reddit.