I've been working on an alternate frontend that might fit your needs.
https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
Here's a link to this post on the official instance
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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what a gift, thank you. Remarkable how much I'm glued to that interface
I'd just like Lemmy to take up the full width of the screen. I hate this design trend of wasting 50% of your screen real estate. Old Reddit scales horizontally pretty well, especially with a plugin to hide the sidebar which makes it work well on portrait and landscape on mobile. Lemmy is cluttered because of how narrow it is. I messed around with the developer console and made it full width and it looked a lot more usable, but unfortunately those changes aren't permanent and I don't know how to make a user style or browser plugin to do this change myself.
You can do some pretty cool customization, but I have no idea how. I came across this lemmy instance that looks like an old phpBB forum:
That's amazing
I actually would really like something like new Reddit, Lemmy is far too horizontally dense despite wasting tons of space on both sides. I can't actually tell which comment is the top most either.
Generally its just difficult to discern what exactly I'm seeing.
If I don't find something soon-ish I'll probably get deep into making my own restyle script.
UI and UX sucks for me. I would have liked to work on the UI, but the theme tech is not approachable to me. The theming seems to be coming, but just starting out with no docs there yet.
already exists. https://old.lemmy.ca I was surprised to learn how many different front ends my instance already had. I'm not sure what it takes to get it integrated on your instance
Themes would be my start, but that would require the instance owners to add them once created.
You can write your own frontend for Lemmy by connecting to the Api and using it to build the HTML. The docs have some more explanation.
How much does the API cost? /s
About tree fiddy
On lemmy? No. The devs decided to do a single page app with a REST API, which leads to the sluggishness and slow load-time. kbin (which is compatible with lemmy's content) is your best bet, IMHO. https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list
I'm too used to lemmy unfortunately, and kbin is far from perfect.
On Android, Jerboa has a "list" style post view that may be more to your liking that the default card views.
There's no multireddit feature currently. I don't have a link handy, but there's a GitHub issue for it though.
In general, I think you'll find that Lemmy lacks many quality of life features you love in the reddit ecosystem. It's a younger project, and less well funded. If you have a developer background or ability to learn, you may be able to help... but it doesn't have the huge variety of apps and interfaces that reddit does, and you're not necessarily going to be able to replicate a highly personalized UI experience terribly soon.
I have been a multireddit user since... I started using Reddit? I will continue to use it until Lemmy grows enough for me to become independently a competent link aggregator for tech news through any instances that web scrape Reddit post June 30.
I did relay my woes to admins before about the density of UI, because Lemmy wastes screen space a lot.
I use a minor hack if anyone wants to try it out on Firefox for computer and for Android as well. On computer, I set default zoom to 90% across browser on a 1366x768 screen. On Firefox Android, I have zoom set to 70% on Full HD resolution. It is satisfactory on Android, but barely on computer.