- cross-posted to:
- youshouldknow@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- youshouldknow@lemmy.world
If you previously preferred browsing old.reddit for its compact and information dense web layout, you should know that this theme can be replicated for Lemmy using monkey scripts.
For more information on installing browser extensions to use scripts linked by this post, checkout:
- https://greasyfork.org
- https://violentmonkey.github.io/
- Recommend given recent context:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34830903
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Has anyone considered forking or talking the RES developers into doing something for Lemmy/kbin?
Checking the issues tracker for RES, there’s not yet any mention of lemmy or kbin:
Perhaps you could ask there. I’d also recommend checking out the Lemmy Plugins & Userscripts community:
He’s active on Tildes and said just a week ago that he doesn’t have another one of those plugins like RES in him :)
Thanks for sharing!
these are excellent, though it is missing a little padding to the right of the thumbnail for me using
old.reddit.compact.user.js. But it brings up usability for me.I wonder if lemmy will have a theme engine eventually. Or an old-reddit theme…
It does have a theme engine. It uses bootstrap v4 theme files. Problem is, bootstrap is now on v5 and the themes generated by bootstrap.build are not compatible with v4.
So we need some good themers to show up. :) (And maybe some good UI people as well)
Check out this issue:
This makes lemmy more usable than kbin for me
There’s no need to go JavaScript route for theming, Stylus is an add-on that injects CSS instead. I wrote a style here, which increases width of Lemmy instances for wide screens, and also respects your browser light or dark theme if set to follow system:
https://userstyles.world/style/10233/zettajon-1440p-and-darkmode-supported-lemmyVery nice. I don’t understand the paradigm where everything is spaced out and there’s useless sidebars wasting space.
I general why does there have to be static sidebars that are rarely used. It causes the content body to be squeezed into tiny space. I will use the left menus when necessary which is not every single page view. In particular the right panel on lemmy and reddit have become cognitive blindspots. I will read the board description and decide to (or not to) click subscribe once. Otherwise it’s like how my brain ignores my own nose.
Why did web design become this way?
I had a “hide sidebar” bookmarklet for Reddit that lived in my favorites bar and got used dozens of times a day. I didn’t mind so much when Reddit was fullscreen, but when I was cramming it in with other windows on my desktop that extra real estate made a huge difference.
Personally I see the value of the sidebar but I think it would work better as a fly-out UI element that can be reduced or hidden, and stays that way until opened up again. I’m in the process of trying to stand up my own instance to see how that could be done.
For posterity, I later stumbled upon the authors original post here:
- Tamper/Greasemonkey script to reformat interface to a style recalling old.reddit
The community that this was posted from also looks interesting:
- Lemmy Plugins & Userscripts
