• @lightsecond
    1•11 months ago

    There unfortunately isn’t a way to force the UI to be one of those ones by default for literature.cafe […] Doing so would break federation.

    Isn’t the UI separate from the backend and run as a separate process? I haven’t done this nor seen anyone else do this yet so this is just an educated guess, but I believe this means that anything the standard lemmy-ui can do can be done by calling the APIs directly, ergo you can host a custom frontend on https://literature.cafe without breaking federation. But I guess that doing that would need extra work for you every time you want to upgrade because now you can’t use the standard docker image?

    I mostly use mobile apps so the web frontend does not make a difference to me. I actually like the default one for my desktop. 🙂

    • gabe [he/him]OPMA
      1•11 months ago

      More choice is good which is the reason why the UI are the focus. But alongside that I do use a rather custom setup so the traffic funnels thru traefik so I can automate my certificates and make things easier to install new web blocks on different ports and subdomains, I don’t wanna tinker with that and risk breaking federation. I also do like the default one as well, there’s some quirks I wish were different though but things will change in time.