Intro
This project is an open source alternative frontend for Lemmy. It is built with Next.js.
- Preview environment: next.lemm.ee
- Source code & issue tracker: GitHub
Screenshots (desktop & mobile)
Goals
- Drop-in replacement for lemmy-ui
- Minimalistic design, following in the footsteps of other timeless link aggregator UIs
- Fast!
- Super basic NextJS architecture, taking advantage of features like the app router & server actions
Motivation
The original lemmy-ui has been extremely important for the growth of Lemmy, and the new lemmy-ui-leptos also looks quite interesting. One issue with both of these is that they are built using quite obscure technologies (Inferno and Leptos).
This project was created as an alternative for contributors who are already familiar with NextJs and want to use those skills on Lemmy. The beauty of open source is that anybody can build what they want, and all these alternative projects can happily coexist!
You can read more in the original announcement post here.
Roadmap
✅ - Completed
Milestone 1 - Lurk (✅ v0.1.0)
Includes read-only functionality, more or less everything you need in order to be a lurker on Lemmy
- Front page (✅ v0.1.0)
- Single post page with comments (✅ v0.1.0)
- Single comment thread page (✅ v0.1.0)
- User profile (✅ v0.1.0)
- Community page (✅ v0.1.0)
- Communities list (✅ v0.1.0)
- Inline expanding media (✅ v0.1.0)
- Separate mobile layout for narrow screens (✅ v0.1.0)
- Search page (✅ v0.1.0)
- Federation page (✅ v0.1.0)
- Full Lemmy markdown support (spoiler tags, custom emoji, etc) (✅ v0.1.0)
- Blur NSFW content (✅ v0.1.0)
Milestone 2 - Participate
Features related to actually participating on Lemmy
- Login page (✅ v0.1.0)
- Sign-up page (✅ v0.9.0)
- Forgot password page (✅ v0.5.0)
- Vote functionality (✅ v0.1.0)
- Post create/edit/delete (✅ v0.3.0)
- Comment create/edit/delete (✅ v0.1.0)
- Inbox (Replies, DMs, mentions) (✅ v0.8.0)
- DM sending (✅ v0.6.0)
- Post/comment sharing (✅ v0.2.1)
- Post/comment saving (✅ v0.2.1)
- Image uploads (✅ v0.10.0)
- User settings page
- User/instance/community blocking
Milestone 3 - Moderate
Features related to moderation & administration
- Report posts/comment/DMs
- Report inbox
- Community create/edit/delete
- Modlog
- “Rap sheet” on user profiles
- Mod toolbar on posts/comments
- Instance settings for admins
- Sign-up applications inbox
Future ideas
- GitHub actions pipeline
- Complete instructions & examples for deployment on other instances
- More themes/layouts?
- More features for markdown editor (more formatting options, emoji picker, @mentions)
I just randomly thought of this project and logged in specifically to see if there were any updates to it. This is exciting, I’ll be sure to follow the project and contribute if I can!
Is there a sort of dev talk chat room going on where people interested could join, share ideas, and get help with making features?
Just for fun, I added 3 color themes for the accent color, which you can switch between on the fly in the footer of every page.
Green:
Red:
Blue:
Btw, I have actually started using next.lemm.ee as my main Lemmy interface now personally, only switching back to the default UI when I need to do something that’s not implemented in lemmy-ui-next yet (mostly moderation related stuff).