[Discussion] Consider Using My Modern Lemmy UI Theme
[Discussion] Consider Using My Modern Lemmy UI Theme
Please consider using my theme on this instance, so that everyone could enjoy a more more modern, efficient UI when browsing sh.itjust.works. It works with Lemmy 0.17, 0.18 and 0.18.1rc. It has a light theme variant, dark theme or both (auto).
Repository with more screenshots: https://github.com/pkrasicki/lemmy-modern-ui-theme-addon
Theme files for download: https://github.com/pkrasicki/lemmy-modern-ui-theme-addon/releases
It's also a Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-modern-ui-theme
The only downside would be maintenance. Whenever a new version of Lemmy breaks the theme, someone will have to fix it. But I believe that together as a community we can easily maintain our own theme.
Uh it looks nice, I have nothing specifically against it, however:
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in general I dislike this type of self-promotion post on agora
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if we are going to discuss this, I think people should be free to post any themes they've seen that they like and we can discuss all the themes at the same time and choose 1 for awhile, rather than having a discussion like this each time someone wants to promote a new theme.
Something needs to be done about Lemmy's UI. Currently multiple developers develop their userscripts independently. But if big instances chose one common theme, it would be a lot easier to maintain it and most people could enjoy a nice UI without having to install anything.
It doesn't have to be my theme, so feel free to post alternatives. I don't know of any modern looking ones. I've seen some nice userscripts though and maybe they can be turned into a Lemmy theme.
I think those would be nice if we changed the backgrounds, but I don't think they are maintained anymore: https://github.com/2xx04/lemmy-ui-themes
I guess I have a few questions:
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you mention that any independent theme would need to be maintained. Do you have multiple contributors to your project? Or would you be open to? Are you trying to be in this for the long haul yourself or would you be looking to hand it off to someone to maintain?
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does the theme impact the accessibility at all?
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What's the difference?
The dark theme uses more black and darker colors where as the light theme uses white and more lighter colors.
There are less bright and distracting backgrounds, which should make the site easier to read. Here are some screenshots from the default theme:
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I think we shall make a UI Discussion in general. I might actually make it.