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Did the entire server get put on Alexandrite by default, and how do I get off Alexandrite and go back to default Lemmy UI? (ani.social)

submitted 8 months ago by Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social to c/meta@ani.social

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I typed in "ani.social" in my phone browser, expecting to see the normal Lemmy UI. Instead I'm confronted with the Alexandrite front end. I don't think I clicked anything to give me this front end; I think it's a total surprise to me, it's possible I'm an idiot who missed something and accidentally clicked a setting. Asking for help here after clicking around in more settings trying to figure out how to turn it off.

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[–] hitagi@ani.social 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's still using default Lemmy-UI. Just tested on both my phone and PC with Firefox and Brave. What browser are you using?

Alexandrite is at https://alexandrite.ani.social/ani.social

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

🤔 I'll test the other FE for a few days, there was two reasons I stopped using interstellar that I resumed back with lemmy. Iirc one of them was not allowing my diverse input method: need shavian, UTF-16, CJK, markdown support, etc..

not op.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

@hitagi@ani.social Is it that these front ends have something broken internally that they can't fetch external posts? I just tried it on Tesseract, and it failed to show any result from an post I fetched manually on the lemmy FE. Earlier I had tried it on Alexandrite, and I thought it was just an issue with FE itself. Now I think it's a configuration issue.

Alexandrite:

Pros:

Emojified UI
Compactness
Subscriptions on sidebar.
IME 𐑢𐑻𐑒𐑕.
theme customization (AMOLED true dark, hue control)
Language posting autoselected (英語です)
Hotkeys

Cons:

Spoiler not emojified
no attachment emoji either

Neutral:

Infinite scrolling

INSTA-🙅‍♀️ on ϕton. It crunched sized attachments.

Tesseract
Con:

disallowing me to zoom in, manually.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean searching the post using the URL (such as https://ani.social/post/17919648)? It doesn't seem to work for Alexandrite and Tesseract. It works for Photon though.

I don't think it's a config issue because it also doesn't work on the developers' deployment too: https://alexandrite.app/ and https://tesseract.dubvee.org/

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 8 months ago

oh lol, thanks.

Yeah Φton is an instant “nah” for me. But funny that the other two I prefer broke that necessary component of lemmyverse.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

photon.ani.social's on a old version that uses a different way of lemmy's resizing, they're ~11 months out of date

I could potentially add an option to waste heaps of bandwidth and load full images for everything (like everyone else, including lemmy-ui) but it seems wasteful

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm on Safari on my cellphone. Trying another browser, weirdly enough, makes it normal again. Thanks!

[–] hitagi@ani.social 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I don't have an Apple device to test Safari but I'll do some research on what's going on.

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 0 points 8 months ago

Okay, 14 days later my ani.social is back to normal on Safari!