We have a new front end for our users to try out. Photon is my favourite of the three front ends we have enabled. It’s clean and modern, and for those of you who moderate communities, it has good access to moderation tools!
Give it a try at https://phtn.lemmy.blahaj.zone/
Hmm. Overall, I’m not a big fan. I kinda like it on mobile, as it feels like what it’s made for. But on desktop? Less. Lots of empty, wasted space.
However, there is one thing that bothers me. On the standard Lemmy UI, I get red accent colors by default and this really cute logo at the top. I can install it as a PWA on my phone and I get the logo as an icon, which I love. This Photon UI is however, is really clean. It’s so clean in fact, that, in it’s current form, it lacks personality. It’s black and white and that’s it, and when I install it as a PWA on my phone, it shows up as “Photon” instead of “Blahaj Lemmy”, and with a generic black and white shape logo instead of the cute Blahaj one.
Take Sharkey, for example, which runs the social network part blahaj.zone for example, it’s got lots of personality. And it works well enough on both mobile and desktop. :)
Because PWAs are such a pain to manage, it’s pretty difficult for me to let the PWA have the icon and name of the instance that hosts it. You can customize your colors from the main menu > theme though.
Hello, thank you for chiming hère!