raybJun 12, 2023

Anyone contributing to Lemmy's code development

https://lemmy.world/post/79642

Anyone contributing to Lemmy's code development - Lemmy.world

Curious if anyone is working on the codebase for Lemmy. I’m sure we all see a few places where it could use some love. The main repos are: - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy] - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui] Personally, I’ve been working on a few small things for docs. PS: Here’s a pretty easy ticket to jump on if you want to get started :) https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1214 [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1214]

Show threadpkrasickiJun 12, 2023

I created a proposal with UI design changes. Feel free to post a comment with your feedback: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1183

More things would need to be changed to make the app more readable, but I didn't want to propose too many changes at once. So this is just for the main page with default theme.

Show threadraybJun 12, 2023

That's pretty nice! I think that the theme could def use a little love. I think the devs said at one point that they want to make it so any bootstrap theme could be imported but for now it's just the two themes.

Are you a designer?

Show threadpkrasicki
Thanks! I'm a front-end developer :)
Jun 12, 2023 at 8:29pmWeb
Show threadraybJun 12, 2023

Maybe you could make your changes as a userscript first and let people play around with it? I'd def test it out :)

Fun fact: there used to be many more lemmy themes that were pretty cool but they got ripped out as too hard to maintain a while ago.

Show threadpkrasickiJun 12, 2023
That sounds interesting! I wanted to be able to use it myself in case devs weren't interested in changing the UI. Can you tell me how it works and how to do that?
Show threadpkrasickiJun 12, 2023
That sounds interesting! I wanted to be able to use it myself in case devs weren't interested in changing the UI. Can you tell me how it works and how to do that?
Show threadraybJun 12, 2023
You add a browser extension that lets you write code that runs on any page you want. This video should be a decent explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DmQ_V9ZRlk
Show threadpkrasickiJun 14, 2023

Instructions unclear, I wrote a Firefox addon instead :D https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/lemmy-modern-ui-theme

But you should be able to take the script and easily turn it into a userscript: https://github.com/pkrasicki/lemmy-modern-ui-theme-addon

It works with both light and dark theme, but sometimes the detection fails for me and applies wrong styles. I hope those hacks will last for some time though so that we could have a modern UI. I would change more stuff, but some things are not possible.

Show threadraybJun 14, 2023
Very impressive, I dig it :)
Show threadpkrasickiJun 14, 2023
Thanks :). Do you know where to find those older themes? It would be interesting to see how they were implemented.
Show threadraybJun 15, 2023
Here ya go https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/910