silas

Hey friends and followers,

Here’s a quick look at the comments section in Lemmynade. I’m working full-time on this project and getting more exited to share it with you each day!

Follow !lemmynade@lemm.ee for updates as Lemmynade gets closer to public testing

It’s been a while so I’d thought I’d post an update real quick.

Still hacking away at Lemmynade each day, and Lemmynade now has an icon! Most of the basic features are complete. My focus right now is boosting security and performance. I’ve also got a few more bugs to work out with comments to make sure they’re displaying nicely.

If you’re new here, Lemmynade is a beautiful, touch-friendly web app and public website for Lemmy. The goal is to make Lemmy more approachable, discoverable, engaging, and fun to use through a high-quality user interface.

Follow this community for more, and let me know if there’s anything specific you hope to see in Lemmynade in the comments!

I'm getting a "user_already_exists" error from /user/save_user_settings no matter what settings I try to change. The JWT is valid, and this is happening on multiple instances the same (programming.dev, lemm.ee, etc.) Anyone have any ideas why I'd be getting this? Here's my payload:

{
  show_bot_accounts: true,
  auth: token
}

Edit: This issue describes a bug where this happens when the avatar field is not included. Just tested it and that's the same problem I'm running into. I fixed it temporarily by passing the current avatar url.

I hope this is obvious, but I wanted to get it out there because of how important it is.

If your client allows user-entered Lemmy instances, ALWAYS verify that the instance is a valid Lemmy instance before sending credentials over. Otherwise, the user may have entered a url to an unknown server or site, and you will be sending their login credentials to a server that may be logging and storing the request or even intentionally trying to capture these credentials.

Instead, call getSite at the very least, or use a public list of verified servers before making the login request.

I would not be surprised if down the road malicious sites with similar domains to popular instances will be created to get login details of users who mis-typed their instance domain. It’s partially our responsibility to make sure our users are safe, so let’s keep this discussion going as we learn new ways to handle security concerns!

More progress is being made on Lemmynade—the refreshing, one-of-a-kind Lemmy client for the web! Here’s a few screenshots:

App development takes time, and the current focus is getting all basic functionality running smooth before adding extra features. Every Lemmy instance is different and performance varies a lot. Each feature needs to be tested thoroughly to minimize the amount of errors. Errors also must be be handled gracefully when they do happen on slower or overloaded instances so as to not scare people away :) As you can imagine, that's plenty to think about.

That said, we're getting closer to a public release each day. If you want to follow progress and get the alpha link when it drops, updates are being posted to r/lemmynade and this community here at !lemmynade@lemm.ee

Feel free to ask questions or share ideas in the meantime!

Cheers,

- silas

The official interactive tutorial was the way I initially learned Svelte, and it's seen some highly-impressive improvements over the past year. Perfect place to start if you're curious about Svelte!

What were the YouTube channels, tutorials, articles, or other resources that helped you learn Svelte?

To stay tuned and get the link when it drops, follow at !lemmynade@lemm.ee. In the meantime, feel free to ask questions or give suggestions!

With all the amazing apps and services everyone is building for Lemmy lately, I figured I might as well share a sneak-peek of mine too!

Lemmynade is a stunning web client for Lemmy with an emphasis on search engine indexability, great moderation tools, and a familiar pixel-perfect experience.

The goal with this project is to:

• Publish a powerful, publicly-browsable, fully-indexable website where all Lemmy instances are accessible at any time. I’ll be using dynamic SEO, SSR, and smart caching on the edge to encourage search engines to index posts (and also make posts look good when people share them to other platforms).
• Create a solid, familiar UX to make it easier for new users to transition from other social media platforms. Lets face it—we need a great user experience for Lemmy with infinite scrolling, beautiful post presentation, video support, and animated upvotes.
• Prioritize community engagement and moderation tools. You can see it in the colors and the placement of everything—Lemmynade is about the users that make up this community. The goal is to make it simple and quick for you to post, comment, reply, and message other users in the Fediverse. Moderation tools will also get some love as well.
• Eventually release Lemmynade iOS and Android apps. Hopefully, as Lemmynade grows, I’ll be able to release iOS and Android apps. This is not a guarantee and is dependent on the success of the web version and any interest from y’all.

As you can imagine, this is a huge project and will take some time to get to a usable and polished version 1.0. For now, subscribe to this community to follow along—I’ll post updates and more sneak-peeks along the way.

I’ll be sharing more screenshots in the coming weeks as well as a link to the public alpha for you all to try. Stay tuned, and feel free to ask any questions or share ideas!

Cheers,

- Silas