Just an FYI post for folks who are new or recently returning to Lemmy, I have updated the linked grease/tamper/violentmonkey script for Lemmvy v0.18.
These two scripts (a compact version and a large thumbnail version) substantially rearrange the default Lemmy format.
These are (finally) relatively stable for desktop/widescreen. Future versions will focus a little more on the mobile/handheld experience.
These are theme agnostic and should work with darkly and litely (and variants) themes.
- Greasyfork here: https://greasyfork.org/en/users/1107499-mershed-perderders
- Github here: https://github.com/soundjester/lemmy_monkey
- If you need the userscript for Lemmy v0.17.4, that can be found here:
- https://github.com/soundjester/lemmy_monkey/tree/dev-v1.11-Lemmy-v0.17
- this v0.17.4 userscript is no longer in active development
- If you need the userscript for Lemmy v0.17.4, that can be found here:
Screenshot of “Compact” version
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As always, feedback is appreciated!
is it feasible? Sure. The script’s CSS can be essentially copied wholesale into a required stylesheet.
Will it ever happen to the “Default” Lemmy UI? Probably not.
There are a few catches with this: 1) it has been explicitly communicated by the Lemmy devs that the stylesheet and styling framework (Bootstrap v4 / v5) will be changed in the future for a different framework, and 2) classes and IDs used by elements are not considered “safe” or “static” for future development. These issues are less of a challenge for traditional theming, which applies different colors to standard web elements; but they are more of a challenge for things like this that make wholesale changes to the layout (and largely leaves colors alone).
That said, there is at least one instance that I am aware of that is trying to make this the default layout: forum.basedcount.com. It appears that incorporation has not been rolled out just yet though.