Potential Idea: A Lemmy App Inspired by the Official Reddit App - literature.cafe

Has any developer ever considered creating a Lemmy app that closely mimics the OFFICIAL Reddit app’s design and functionality? To be clear, I’m not referring to the excellent work done by former third-party Reddit app developers who’ve transitioned to Lemmy (like Relay, Infinity, Sync, and Slide). Instead, I’m talking about an app that specifically recreates the UI/UX of the OFFICIAL Reddit app, but tailored for Lemmy’s federated structure. While I personally don’t really use Reddit that much, I recognize that many Reddit Users find its interface familiar and easy to navigate. This familiarity could be a significant advantage in onboarding new users to Lemmy, especially those coming directly from Reddit. ______________________________ Some potential benefits of such an app: Easier transition for Reddit users moving to Lemmy Familiar interface for casual users who aren’t as tech-savvy Potentially wider adoption of Lemmy due to lowered learning curve I personally believe that this could be an interesting project, but I’ll be honest - I don’t have the time, energy, or technical knowledge to tackle it myself. I’m curious if any developers have ever considered this idea or would be interested in exploring it. What are your thoughts on this? Do you see potential in a Lemmy app that closely mirrors the official Reddit app’s design? Are there any developers who might be interested in taking on such a project?

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What's your approach on rendering nested comments? - lemm.ee

I’m using lemmy-js-client for app development. I want to render comments in the nested form (like normal people do). The problem is, the lemmy backend spits out comment lists in a fashion that is unfriendly for nested rendering. Why? It outputs comments whose paths are like follows (for example): 0.1.2.3.4 0.1.2.1 0.1.2.3.4.5 0.1.3.1.5 0.1 Let’s say the limit that I’ve set here is 10. Many a times, the parent comments of the comments in the page are out of the page. For example, let’s say I asked lemmy for comments for a given post. It gives me an output like above. There are many children comments here on page 1 (like 0.1.2.1, 0.1.2.3.4 and so on). Their parent (0.1.2) is NOT on this page. It is on the page that follows. Hence, I would need to do client side bs to get the correct parent comments. What is your approach for doing the above? This is what I have settled for now unfortunately. I fetch all the comments under a post and then convert them in my nested form. This means, that my app doesn’t paginate. This thus results in really slow loading times for posts with more comments. The more comments a post has, the slower they will load. This sucks. I tried other ways, mind you. While implementing pagination, I simply removed orphan comments when on a given page. If the user decided to go to page 2 (simply by scrolling), suddenly, these orphan comments would not be orphans anymore due to them finding their parent comments. This in turn, fucked with my ui completely (which was obvious), thus making the list randomly scroll like crazy. This was a really shitty experience for the user. Sooooo what have you guys done? How have you handled the situation?

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