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Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of choice.

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Forget the backend! I just want the frontend not to crap itself whenever it can't fetch the site icon!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Have you tried any of the web client alternatives ("Web" filter): https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ ?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Yeah, I run Photon on base domain because I couldn't count on lemmy-ui.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The Photon developer is assisting with the development of the new front-end :)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's good news. Hopefully they'll get let you change your avatar in that new UI because that's one of the weirdly missing Photon features.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    No kidding. I'm an Ops guy and I've hosted hundreds of web applications professionally and for fun over the years but Lemmy has been one of the more frustrating and brittle experiences I've had.

    I've figured out a few of the quirks by now but I definitely spent a whole afternoon troubleshooting why the front end wouldn't load at all only to discover the real issue was with Pict-rs.

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