Reddthat Announcements @reddthat.com Tiff @reddthat.com 1y ago

New Official UI Alternatives for Reddthat & External UIs

New UI Alternatives

After looking at our UI for a while I thought, someone will have created something special for Lemmy already. So I opened our development server, told it to get the bag rolling and investigated all the apps people have created.

Have a play around, all should be up and working. If there are other apps, ideas, or ways you think reddthat could be better please let me know!

Enjoy 😃

P.S. External UIs are a security issue

I would like to let everyone know that if you are using an external non-reddthat hosted UI (such as wefwef.app for example) you have given them access to full use of your account.

This happens because Lemmy checks for new notifications by performing GET requests via the api with the cookie in the URL field. https://instance/api/v3/user/unread_count?auth=your-authentication-cookie-here. This URL shows up in the logs of the third-party user interface. So if the third party was nefarious, they could look at their logs and get your cookie. Then they can login to your account or perform any requests.

So please only use the Reddthat user-interfaces as listed here & the main sidebar.
(If you are worried, you can log out of the thirdparty website, which will invalidate your cookie).

Tiff

Brilliant that "investigate" = may as well just install them all 😅

Overachiever eh?
old.reddthat.com

The Reddit experience is complete. Thank you, thank you.
These are great, thanks for this.

Does anyone know if any of these can be keyboard-driven? Like with RES, you can move the selected post with j and k, you can open the comments with c, you can expand/collapse the post with x, etc. Is that something that exist for lemmy?
- Ooo, if you find one let me know!
  
  The closest would be the CLI app: https://github.com/mrusme/neonmodem
Woahhh, great!! We have more UI options
old.reddthat.com is fantastic!
Photon is my favorite, and after that alexandrite.

Both feel sleeker and less like reddit.

Thanks for setting these up!
Hey, I just noticed the names and domains were swapped for them. The photon one says powered by Alexandrite, and the alexandrite one says powered by Photon. Had me confused for a second when adding bookmarks in my browser. Below is a screenshot to see
- PS. I figured out what was happening! They shouldn't cause any more issues
- !?!?!?!? That is hilarious.
  I have no idea why that's happening (yet). For whatever reason they are being directed to the wrong container... I did some magic which allows me to abstract some logic:
  
  Web -> nginx container > check which web address it is > forward to container with same name.
  
  This allowed me to scale out containers and add new services (more UI apps) without having to update a huge amount of webserver logic. Seems it's bitten in right on the side.
  
  Enjoy the phorite and the alexton for the time being!
  
  I need copious amounts of coffee ~~and to not be caught in meetings all day :( . I'll probably get to look at it around 9-10 UTC~~
  
  Edit: I said fuckit and restarted the front-end services, and it's back working. I'll investigate what went wrong later on. Now to find coffee!
Great to have some alternatives. Alexandrite is my favourite.

Edit: After using Photon and Alexandrite for a few days I have to say that while Alexandrite's looks are more pleasing, Photon's community sidebar is super convenient.
Why is the Voyager mobile UI the only one that lets you explicitly hide posts without it being "all posts you've read"? Just baffling that feature is being left out from all the others.

edit: please keep Photon available. I like having the communities to the left, and a non-ridiculously wide instance info panel on the right. If it had endless scrolling instead of "next" and "back", and ability to manually hide posts, it would be even better.
- I will be keeping all four UIs available until they either provide no valid use or are superseded / the developers abandon them.
  
  So no need to worry about that!
  
  Thank you, and I'm happy to say the Photon developer is already on the case for hiding posts!
  
  https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/commit/79221e2e53774114c2ca6381f6b7c7103341798c
Awesome. Photon and Alexandrite look great. Voyager for mobile is not a bad option.
I accidentally went to www.reddthat.com today and thought you had unilaterally switched us all to Voyager.

It was so painful that I was almost to the point of abandoning my account by the time I happened to follow a link that went to reddthat.com.
- 😱
  Well I am glad you are still here. I'd certainly never change the default UI unless the third party was better in every way.
  
  At this time, none of them allow me to administrate Reddthat effectively either. Alexandrite doesn't have image uploads, Photon doesn't have an easy way to ban users and voyager is pretty much mobile only.
  
  On that note I know exactly what happened and I'll be able to fix it within the hour.
  
  Edit: Fixed www.reddthat.com -> reddthat.com :)
  
  To ban users in Photon, go to the user's user page, and click the moderation button.
Absolutely legendary!