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next.lemmy.zip - New lemmy UI available! (next.lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by Demigodrick to c/announcements

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Hello all,

You may have seen @[email protected]'s latest post regarding his new UI - as I love testing these things out, I've spun up this up at next.lemmy.zip.

Its very new and in active development, and you will be able to join in the conversation at the lemmy-ui-next community.

The new UI is described as:

Lemmy-ui-next is a brand new alternative frontend, built from the ground up with modern and popular tooling - a framework known as NextJS. Lemmy-ui-next has (or aims to have) the following high-level features:

Open source (AGPL)
Drop-in replacement for lemmy-ui - same exact URL structure, so all existing links will continue working
Very plain & minimalistic UI, strongly inspired by other link aggregator sites (of course including the original lemmy-ui!)
Very basic and "typical" NextJS architecture, to encourage open source contributions
Fully functional even when JavaScript is disabled (but works better with JS enabled!)
Optimized data transfer between your browser and the server (filtering out only relevant data from the Lemmy API, caching, memoization)
Strong focus on privacy and security (all authentication with the Lemmy API is done through secure httpOnly cookies, user IP addresses are not leaked to external image hosts, etc)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

New front end are always fun to look at! i hope this one will go far!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I don't enjoy the minimalist UIs but regardless I'm glad this exists. Great job hitting the right notes! Hopefully more will follow for everyone to find their favorite UI.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow, you set this up very quickly 😃

I think it's offline right now, but when I checked it before, I immediately noticed that https://next.lemmy.zip is significantly slower than https://next.lemm.ee, and it would be interesting to find out the reasons. Can you share a few details about your deployment? I'm interested in:

RAM
CPU
Is it connecting directly to your Lemmy backend, or through a proxy/proxies?
What is the latency in ms between next.lemmy.zip and your Lemmy backend?

[–] Demigodrick 3 points 8 months ago

Have dropped you a message on matrix :)

[–] BrikoX 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's very slow. The initial load took 63000 milliseconds (63 seconds) before it cached everything. Ever since I moved to Proton as my main fronted, I love the speed of Svelte framework.

I'm glad though that more options are being developed, and hopefully it won't be abandoned as happened with many mobile apps. We can never have too many choices.

[–] Demigodrick 3 points 8 months ago

Should be significantly faster now!

[–] treadful 3 points 8 months ago

Been liking the dakarly theme but that's pretty nice too and a bit more compact. I'd give it a shot.

[–] altima_neo 3 points 8 months ago

Near! I'll have to check it out when I get home.

[–] mynamesnotrick 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Really like this ui... could see myself using it but needs some more functionality finished. Very promising.

[–] Demigodrick 3 points 7 months ago

Sunaurus is doing lots of work to it and i try to put the latest version up every couple of days, so hopefully lots of changes to come!