Pangora-UI Open Alpha (Feedback wanted) (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone! I've pushed out a public alpha build to https://beta.pangora.social/ for people to start giving feedback on the design before it becomes more fleshed out

Feel free to check it out and say what you like or dont like in the comments here.

⚠ Warning: This is an alpha, things are still very unfinished. You cant use this as an alternative to lemmy-ui yet since things such as logging in aren't supported

⚠ Warning 2: If you attempt to use this on mobile currently it will be very broken

I constructed the UI by seeing what people liked from lemmy-ui, alexandrite, and photon and trying to match it up to how lemmy-ui is built so that it would be an easy switch between them

Main site mechanics that is different from lemmy-ui

Comments from cross-posts show up when looking at a post (will be changed in the future to only communities that community has whitelisted to do it for once I mess around in the backend more)
Comments and posts that have 0 or less score in terms of upvotes/downvotes will be collapsed by default
Clicking on a post in the post feed makes it show up overlayed on top of the feed similar to alexandrite's system instead of sending you to a new page. (hitting the name of the post when in this preview state will send you to the actual page)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think the gradient background is a bit too bright? I reduced the luminance for the colors down to 7% and I think it's easier to read, but I'm not a graphic designer at all lmao

:is(.dark .dark\:to-fuchsia-950) {
    --tw-gradient-to: #200222 var(--tw-gradient-to-position);
}
:is(.dark .dark\:via-black) {
    --tw-gradient-to: transparent var(--tw-gradient-to-position);
    --tw-gradient-stops: var(--tw-gradient-from),#000 var(--tw-gradient-via-position),var(--tw-gradient-to);
}
:is(.dark .dark\:from-blue-950) {
    --tw-gradient-from: #080c1c var(--tw-gradient-from-position);
    --tw-gradient-to: rgba(23,37,84,0) var(--tw-gradient-to-position);
    --tw-gradient-stops: var(--tw-gradient-from),var(--tw-gradient-to);
}

also on light theme the posts have a different background color, outline, and shadow so they stand out well from the background, but on dark theme the post background is transparent so they don't stand out from the background at all, that might be a better fix than the CSS changes above

but again I'm not a graphic designer and I'm actually a fan of very plain readable themes

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I reduced the amount of transparency on the post cards after this round of testing. Now only half transparent

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your work!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also FYI, the post about the January update did not federate to my instance: https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected]

I guess it was lost in the 19.1 turmoil

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Any other news on the project in general too?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The UI has been getting most of the dev time so that it can be fully built up and swapped to by programming.dev before we start extending out the backend. I merged code block support to lemmy-ui as well so that should be arriving in all instances in 0.19.

Backend has mostly just been me analyzing it and making sense of the different parts so I can add things in the future

Pangora.social just got an update to make it automatic by pulling data from fediseer

Havent been able to get too much dev time recently though since its midterm season but there should be some more progress for the next bit assuming I dont get a lot of work dumped on me. Currently mostly still just me doing development and this is third in my priorities after uni and gamedev. Probably will make posts in the future around lemmy looking for more developers

this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023

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🐝 An activitypub compatible forum and link aggregator. Downstream from Lemmy.

https://github.com/PangoraWeb

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Pangora is the name of the lemmy soft fork thats being primarily worked on by members of programming.dev. Its aimed so that we can add features on top of lemmy and prioritize them based on what the instance needs while still being able to push changes upstream to lemmy if they accept them.

This also makes us more decoupled from lemmy so that if anything major happens to lemmy we can keep going with maintaining the site without any issues.

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