Hello everyone! I’ve pushed out a public alpha build to https://beta.pangora.social/ for people to start giving feedback on the design before it becomes more fleshed out
Feel free to check it out and say what you like or dont like in the comments here.
⚠ Warning: This is an alpha, things are still very unfinished. You cant use this as an alternative to lemmy-ui yet since things such as logging in aren’t supported
⚠ Warning 2: If you attempt to use this on mobile currently it will be very broken
I constructed the UI by seeing what people liked from lemmy-ui, alexandrite, and photon and trying to match it up to how lemmy-ui is built so that it would be an easy switch between them
Main site mechanics that is different from lemmy-ui
- Comments from cross-posts show up when looking at a post (will be changed in the future to only communities that community has whitelisted to do it for once I mess around in the backend more)
- Comments and posts that have 0 or less score in terms of upvotes/downvotes will be collapsed by default
- Clicking on a post in the post feed makes it show up overlayed on top of the feed similar to alexandrite’s system instead of sending you to a new page. (hitting the name of the post when in this preview state will send you to the actual page)
Images:
The UI has been getting most of the dev time so that it can be fully built up and swapped to by programming.dev before we start extending out the backend. I merged code block support to lemmy-ui as well so that should be arriving in all instances in 0.19.
Backend has mostly just been me analyzing it and making sense of the different parts so I can add things in the future
Pangora.social just got an update to make it automatic by pulling data from fediseer
Havent been able to get too much dev time recently though since its midterm season but there should be some more progress for the next bit assuming I dont get a lot of work dumped on me. Currently mostly still just me doing development and this is third in my priorities after uni and gamedev. Probably will make posts in the future around lemmy looking for more developers