Discuss PieFed project direction, provide feedback, ask questions, suggest improvements, and engage in conversations related to the platform organization, policies, features, and community dynamics.
I've been using it casually for a few days now. After the initial shock of having no control over the layout, I actually really like it and don't miss the configurability of other clients. It seems pretty well thought out.
I do REALLY need a way to save an image though.
You’re not the only person to ask about image saving. It’s on my todo list.
What is it?
and where/how do we try it?
Great, thanks. I've been meaning to move over to piefed but was waiting for more clients to come out. Do you know if there are any good desktop browser front-ends?
Blorp dev here. Blorp is desktop and mobile. You can try the web version at https://blorpblorp.xyz/.
What is the motivating logic for 'waiting for more clients'? I'm not doubting you, I just hear the reason mentioned for lots of things and am curious to know the why behind it
Nothing deep really, just that more clients means more options to choose from. It also helps innovation as developers get ideas from other clients to improve theirs. The lemmy app explosion 2 years ago was a fun time as there were a ton of clients with their own design philosophy to choose from. Also, I browse lemmy/piefed on a desktop browser 80% of the time, so it's great to see desktop UI alternatives. For example, Alexandrite is optimized for desktop browsing and it maximizes screen real estate compared to the default lemmy UI. I see blorp has a browser UI as well, however it seems to still be optimized for mobile browser viewing.
Blorp is one of these. and Photon plans to support PieFed in the future.
Yeah sorry didn't notice web is also listed there. It's still kinda designed for mobile browsers though. I hope we can get a proper front-end for desktops in the future, like Alexandrite.
Blorp dev here. I’m trying not to favor one platform over another. What about the desktop experience makes you feel like it’s not a proper desktop front-end? I know the stack routing is typically a mobile app thing, but I felt like it added to the desktop experience. Feel free to open a GitHub issue with suggestions if you haven’t already.
Hey. Not knocking on the blorp desktop version at all, it looks good! The main thing I'm looking for in desktop browser UIs is taking advantage of screen real estate and not leaving a lot of dead space. Similar to how old reddit is compared to new reddit and how the default UIs for lemmy and piefed really fill up the available space. One tab browsing is also a good feature IMO.
For example, Alexandrite can look like this:
And Voyager's tablet mode, while not really optimized for desktop, also works somewhat:
Yeah that’s totally fair. I think that’s a slightly different vision than what I’m going for, but a totally valid design. Personally the multi column feed and post at the same time isn’t for me, but I understand why people like it. I think Voyager is going to continue to optimize for larger screens. I’ve spoken to the voyager dev a bunch, and I’ve been really inspired by what he’s built.
I absolutely understand if multi-column view is not in your design plan. So yeah really, just maximizing space is what I'm after in a desktop UI. Great work on blorp, and I'm looking forward to see its progress! I also have the mobile client and I'm playing around with it on my piefed account.
I would not count on Alexandrite, as its last commit has been 5 months ago...
Maybe just try to use a default interface? PieFed's frontend is not so much separated from backend and remains a first class citizen among the clients.
Yeah I'm aware that Alexandrite hasn't been updated for a while. Anyways, I checked out Voyager on a desktop browser and the tablet mode view is pretty similar. And since the devs are working on piefed compatibility, I think this will do for now until a better one comes.
Just to add on to this, the web ui for piefed is the native client and basically every feature comes to the web ui first. The api that other frontends/clients is very much a work in progress and only exposes a subset of piefed's features (so far).
In addition to this, these other clients are basically only using the same api routes that lemmy has since that is what they were designed for. So, they don't really have many (or any) features that are piefed-only.
Edit: The PWA for piefed is quite usable and I have put a lot of effort into the UI changes I have contributed to make sure that the interface reacts well down to small screen sizes. So, give that a shot to get the full piefed experience.
Lots of missing context here. Blorp is a Lemmy/Piefed frontend.
You can use the web frontend here: https://blorpblorp.xyz/
Or download the MacOS version here: https://github.com/christianjuth/blorp
Or iOS here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blorp-for-lemmy/id6739925430
I cannot see anything or sign in, personally. Seems to be broken.
Would love to help debug this. Any errors in the console? You don’t have JavaScript disabled, do you?
Edit: if anyone else is reading this and sees a blank page or things not loading, please DM me. Would love to get this sorted out.
I don't know any of these words.
Lol. One of the downsides to running a privacy conscious lemmy client is I don’t collect any data at all that could help me debug errors like this. Unfortunately the only way for me to debug this type of thing is to ask users to report the error with as much context as they can gather.
Edit: sent you a DM
I appreciate that.