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Lemmy.nz Support / Meta

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You can ask questions about the Lemmy.nz instance here.

This community also serves as our Meta community, with posts about updates to the Lemmy software on Lemmy.nz or other things relevant to Lemmy.nz users and not relevant to other instances.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/support@lemmy.nz
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I've been neck deep in Lemmy stuff recently and realised we don't have a post that explains the different frontend options that are available on Lemmy.nz.

If you don't like the Lemmy.nz website, you can test out one of the other website versions to see if one is to your liking (or use a Lemmy app, of which there are now many).

The default website is called lemmy-ui, and is accessed at lemmy.nz.

In addition, we have the following alternate websites. You use the same login details, it's the same site, it's a bit like using a different app to connect.

I don't actively monitor these, but they do have automatic updates. If one isn't working, please let me know!

If you have any questions, feel free to reply here.

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[โ€“] aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

old.lemmy is beautiful. Thank you.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago

Hey all good, it's a nice old familiar look. I didn't make all these by the way, just set them up so our users can use them ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh wow; Mlmym is quite the retro nostalgic Reddit clone huh :)

Photon & Tesseract are both quite nice though - a bit more professional modern web looking than the default one though that could just be the colour scheme that makes lemmy-ui look a bit odd.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Tesseract started as a fork of Photon, which is why they look so similar. But then I believe they turned their attention to Sublinks, which is another federated service much like Lemmy.

The cool thing about Sublinks is they maintain Lemmy API compatibility, so any Lemmy apps can be used with Sublinks. For the same reason, Tesseract can also be used with Lemmy.

Sublinks is very early days still, but chose Java as a back end language to try to have more people able to help.