Lemminator is a web UI that aims to make Lemmy more approachable for a broad non-technical audience. It can be hosted by Lemmy instance owners, and Lemmy.world users can use https://lemminator.netlify.app/.

Interesting, I hadn’t considered that before.

Suppose I modified Lemminator’s search bar so you could paste a link like https://lemmy.ml/comment/1234 or https://lemmy.ml/post/5678 in it and press Enter to navigate to the relevant comment/post within the web UI. I could automatically infer that these are permalinks from other instances. Would that help at all?

The link is https://lemminator.netlify.app/. While it’s still very much a work in progress, basic navigation and upvote/downvote are already working.

Prior to starting my own web UI I considered becoming an Alexandrite contributor. I like how colorful it is compared to the regular web UI. My vision is too different from a technical, design and UX perspective though, so I still think it’s worth pursuing a separate effort. I hope it’ll pay off.

A readonly prototype is available at https://lemminator.netlify.app/ right now ;)

The prototype is live at https://lemminator.netlify.app/ now! You’ll notice that it’s still readonly, so not quite ready to be a daily driver, but gotta start somewhere.

I don’t have macOS/iOS available to test on, but in theory it should. I have a prototype up and running at https://lemminator.netlify.app/.

I’ll take it into consideration! My first focus will be on enabling more basic functionality like upvoting, downvoting and commenting. Right now it’s still read-only.

Awesome. Read-only browsing is fairly stable at this point, but I think I’ll need to have basic account interactions like upvote, downvote and comment implemented before I have a minimum viable product. In general, I prefer to polish the experience before expanding the feature set.