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Are you interested in a (cross platform) desktop app for lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just managed to get a absolute baseline working app in avaloniaUI using this library that someone cooked up. No idea if the library is actively maintained, but uh, we'll figure that out when we get to it.

Compared to using the site, possible advantages of a desktop are:

Being able to save posts offline
Client side filtering
performance
less data usage
Not having to use your browser

Other things too, I'm sure. Just trying to gauge interest here. Also I barely know avalonia or C# so just don't expect a polished app out by next monday.

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[–] Shepy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would have to have sync of settings / layout / etc. Beauty of something like alexandrite is having my config in any browser I use

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Idk about cloud sync, but I could probably let you export/import settings from json or something

[–] Shepy 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would probably be a deal breaker for me tbh, i hate having to manually sync settings between PCs, I'd probably just stick with Alexandrite or similar

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind of settings are you changing often, beyond the initial setup?

[–] Shepy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm thinking things like layout, blocks, filters etc

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

blocks at least are stored in your lemmy account and managed server side.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

You could implement 'drive sync' giving options of NextCloud, GDrive, Dropbox, etc