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photon ui is nicer to use, and seems to work better on an older device, but still use hexbearUI because of the themes like darkly - if the links aren’t green and buttons aren’t pink it doesn’t feel like hexbear
haven’t looked into it, but if photon can get some 
colour theming it would be ideal - better a little janky but familiar than slick but bland
photon-ui is a superiour scrolling experience though, and seems like adding the custom hexbear stuff like the emoji picker would be a pain to get working