Hey there everyone. I think the Photon project has matured enough to the point where I feel ready to replace the default lemmy frontend with it. Since this instance serves roughly 1000 people now, I figured this was worth holding a vote on!

Please check out Photon as currently hosted at https://p.lemdro.id.

If you support changing the default frontend to Photon, upvote my comment on this post. If you don’t support it, downvote that same comment.

Thanks!

  • cole@lemdro.id
    OPMEnglish
    348·
    9 months ago

    If you support changing the default frontend to Photon, upvote this comment! If you don’t support it, downvote this comment!

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    FYI: Photon doesn’t have the routes for “verify email”, “forgot password”, or “change password” at the moment. You’ll need to pass /password_change, /verify_email, and /login_reset to lemmy-ui until support is added and add links to your site info or somewhere people can find them.

    Ran into that when I moved it to my Apex domain and demoted lemmy-ui.

  • WorseDoughnut 🍩@lemdro.idEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    While I personally use alexandrite on desktop and Sync on mobile, I absolutely think that Photon looks fantastic these days and certainly deserves to be the default experience for lemdroid. I would feel proud to share a lemdroid link to someone random knowing that it would show them this nice of a front end.

  • Nunya@lemdro.idEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Not being familiar with Photon vs. Lemmy front end, I’ll risk sounding ignorant with the following questions.

    Will anything change in my user experience? Can I still use the same app (Connect) and username to see the same fediverse?

    • cole@lemdro.id
      OPMEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      Nothing changes if you already use a different frontend or app, so no action from you! But, for example, if you sent a lemdro.id post link to a friend the interface they’d see would be different

      • Nunya@lemdro.idEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Thanks for the explanation. Seems good to me, so I’ll upvote your original comment.

  • Paradox@lemdro.idMEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Yes, move default to old or default or classic or some similar subdomain

  • SGH Fan@lemdro.idEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I often use Connect on mobile. Like what someone else said, maybe have a voting poll (or upvoting comments) for what front end is the best?

    • cole@lemdro.id
      OPMEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I really think Photon fits my philosophy for what I want this instance to look like, which is why it isn’t just a “vote for the one you like”. But I have others available as options of course!

    • cole@lemdro.id
      OPMEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      it’s going to happen, but I’m working on fine-tuning and testing Photon as currently hosted on p.lemdro.id before we fully migrate. Need to verify SSR support so we be properly indexed by search engines