I'm planning on adding alternate post styles in the (hopefully near) future. A more compact style is one of the styles I want to add.
There's an option in the settings that makes the left sidebar not auto-hide if you just want to always be able to see them.
I assume there’s an API to allow individuals to develop their own front end if they wanted? Is there any documentation to this end?
Yes there's an API (docs here), but the docs are little more than type definitions right now so it takes a bit of digging to figure out what you're meant to do. You can look through all the methods on the LemmyHttp section of the docs, and watch the network tab in your browser's dev tools to figure out which APIs are called.
Yep, I'm actually working on making those changes now.
There's a slider in the settings for the hue used for all the background/borders/text etc, so you can change it from purple to other colors, like:
Eventually I plan on adding more customization so you can change the colors of links/votes, and I need to make a light theme because so many people want that too.
(dev here) Sorry! The post forgot to mention Alexandrite is meant to be a alternate UI for desktop. There are a lot of issues if you try using it on mobile at the moment, because I haven't done the work to support it yet. I would keep using whatever you've been using on mobile.
(dev here) I totally understand that, I wish Lemmy had that or oauth, I don't like handling passwords just as much as you don't want me to!
I use Imagus and it doesn't work well with Alexandrite, I was trying to find some documentation on if I could support Imagus from the website side somehow, like attributes to provide non-thumbnail image URL hints but I hadn't found documentation yet.
I've been meaning to try building something similar into Alexandrite at some point otherwise.
(dev here) I hadn't really considered it as a full replacement before, but hosting it alongside the instance like a desktop version of m.lemmy.world is something I think would be neat (at least one instance is doing that, with a custom Dockerfile because I haven't made one yet). I'd need to add some mobile support (which I'm not against doing in the future) and some admin tools probably before it could be a full replacement, both would probably not be for a bit still because I'm still working on feature parity for normal users. Also still waiting on a Lemmy issue to be fixed before I can add image uploading which is the most basic feature the site lacks at the moment.
(dev here) I had an idea for how I'd build a profile switcher recently, it's something I want to implement soon.
(I'm the dev of Alexandrite) Officially there isn't yet a way to self-host it without modifying the code (unless you host it on one of a few specific cloud providers like the official Alexandrite site does), but now that people are self hosting anyway I think adding support for it is going to be higher up on my priority list!
Or find and replace all the periods with ones that are slightly larger font.