Looks great, but I need a light version. (Don't hate :P )
rate limited wtf
I kinda like the general layout, but that color scheme is annoying. Can I change it somehow?
Yep, just go to 'Settings' under the Profile icon, top right.
There's a slider in the settings for the hue used for all the background/borders/text etc, so you can change it from purple to other colors, like:
Eventually I plan on adding more customization so you can change the colors of links/votes, and I need to make a light theme because so many people want that too.
You can change the colors but not remove them entirely. It's not possible to have it entirely white on black.
Looks really nice!
I like it but one thing I would change is the position of my subscribed community: from the left self-hiding sidebar to the righ always visible one
There's an option in the settings that makes the left sidebar not auto-hide if you just want to always be able to see them.
Great work Sheodox. Its beautiful!
Thank you!
@antik Amazing! Alexandrite has become my absolute favourite way to browse lemmy over the last few weeks. Great to see it become part of .world!
looks great!!
looks great!!
Wow, I love this a lot. Initially chuckled at the theme color slider in the settings, but it's unironically a great way to edit that haha.
My instance (lemdro.id) has Photon as their modern look alternative, which also looks pretty sleek IMO, but I think I'll be using this going forward mostly because it's more desktop-looking than Photon's more mobile-centric layout.
Fantastic work on this, can't wait to see how it grows going forward.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Working for me now.
just needs "alexandrite" in the header changing to lemmy.world i think, and maybe the logo changing
Yep, I'm actually working on making those changes now.
Totally my fault, but other than not reading that it was not designed for mobile and getting so excited that I tried it on my phone and wondering why it wasn't working, I really love it! It'll be my main theme on my laptop now. Any plans to also design a mobile interface?
Edit: found out there is already an alternate mobile interface thanks to the comments below. I'll give that a try later. I do really like the color scheme of Alexandrite though.
I do definitely want to make it work on mobile at some point! It'll probably be a while though.
I want to add my praise to the heap.
I'm pretty happy with Voyager on mobile, but when writing something, it's not ideal.
The generic Lemmy UI is more than OK on desktop, but the lack of error code reporting to the user was frustrating, at times I tried to resubmit posts and comments and the spinning Submit button just kept on going, for some communities in particular. So I stopped posting in these communities.
Now, with Alexandrite, I feel like this is a good UI that I really like. And I love that you write out the background error message for why posting or commenting fails!
Really nice job!
Lack of error codes is something I see often even in professional website development. Even Windows has run into that issue now; Click button. Button loads. Button stops - no action. Or, the application just closes.
I think with the separation of product design and engineers in modern teams, it ends up being really hard for everyone to settle on a good path for errors on every single little thing - and including that in the design can make you "feel" your product is error prone, even if 99% of people never see any of those.
This is amazing.
rate limited and banned from server message for me as well.
Nice, the more options, the better. This looks gorgeous in a tablet.
The layout doesn't work very well with narrow window widths, or on mobile screens. It's only comfortable to use if you expand the window to at least a 1080p window width, so it's not very useful on a desktop using tiling window management.
And the developer is quick to add features. Highly recommended for desktop.
verycool interface
When I try to post anything with Alexandrite active I get told something about Language not Allowed or some similar alert. I like the look, but the inability to post is kind of a deal breaker.
Some communities can restrict which languages you're allowed to post in, and I haven't yet made Alexandrite respect that list, I imagine that's what you're running into. Fixing this is on my todo list!
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