Alexandrite

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Alexandrite is a desktop-first alternative Lemmy client.

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Has development been done for mobile? Just checked and it’s better than I remember! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not a nag or anything. I just checked alexandrite on mobile and it seemed better than I remember. It’s probably better than the default UI. The only issues I could see are some minor sizing wrinkles (relative sizes between fonts and buttons/elements seem to need some tweaking) but otherwise it’s looking pretty good already! (Posted from alexandrite on mobile).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks!

Key quote (which I missed):

With this I’m also working towards mobile support. You’ll find things generally work a bit better now with this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep I'm working towards mobile support! I still intend to be desktop-first, but I need to support mobile for a few reasons:

If it's desktop-only you can't really easily share links to posts on Alexandrite to friends, because if I don't support mobile any mobile users following the link are going to have a bad time.
Some people mentioned being interested in replacing lemmy-ui on their instance with Alexandrite, in order for that to be feasible it needs to support mobile.
I generally optimize things to look good on maximized browser windows on desktop, but some people use monitors in portrait mode, or with a tiling window manager. Working on optimizing for mobile means I'm checking basically every window size in between to make sure it always looks good, which would help those other desktop users too.

That's why I'm working on it.

By the way I also added some hotkeys yesterday, and there's a new setting to show post details in the "List" post layout similar to the Card layout. Haven't made announcements for them yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool!! Pretty good on mobile already I’d say!

If there’s anything I see on the mobile side of things, and that isn’t a feature request or anything but more of a fix … I’ll post it here then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That'd be fine, but I'd prefer a Github issue if you can! Makes it easier to track things is all, but no big deal.

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

All good. GitHub makes sense.