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Rediggit for Lemmy has been renamed to Lemonberry...now with dark mode (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by thayer@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Cross-posting this from https://lemmy.ca/post/1271596 due to the current federation situation:

A new version of my Rediggit theme for Lemmy has dropped, and with it comes a name change...

Rediggit is now Lemonberry, to better reflect the separation from Reddit.

I've also added a much-requested dark mode, adapted from Lemmy's default darkly theme. Those familiar with the Reddit Enhancement Suite's dark mode should find this pretty comfortable.

The latest version of Lemonberry is optimized for Lemmy v0.18.1 only and is available on GitHub and UserStyles. I will likely keep the optimizations in sync with only the larger instances as Lemmy development is changing rapidly, and it's proving difficult to maintain compatibility with older versions.

You can also find older versions of the theme, and additional screenshots, at the GitHub repo.

If you have no idea what any of this means, Lemonberry is a flexible, full-width light and dark theme for Lemmy. It is just one of many user-made themes for this community. These themes can be installed and enabled with the use of a CSS injector browser add-on, such as Stylus (Firefox, Chrome). UserStyles.world is a good place to start exploring the available themes.

Cheers

Experimenting with unified instance themes in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] thayer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

“Unified branding” kinda misses the entire mark of “federated but decentralized” that this network of services is supposed to be all about.

I don't think it does. Decentralized doesn't mean every instance must appear unique from one another, though they certainly can if that is their wish. There's no reason why a group of common instances shouldn't want to provide a unified approach to branding their platform.

You’ve mocked up a really clean looking theme, but I’d never use it personally because it’s light-mode and it would burn the eyeballs out of my head at night.

Thanks, the theme is just my usual rediggit for lemmy (the dark variant is coming soon). The point of the post was just to highlight the navbar logo concept.

Experimenting with unified instance themes in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] thayer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Many instances will absolutely want to do their own branding across the board, and that's totally fine, but I also believe that many would like to see a unified approach to the platform. The beauty of the decentralization is that site admins are free to run their instance however they like.

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Experimenting with unified instance themes (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by thayer@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Thought I'd share some ideas I've been floating, to implement a unified branding across all instances. Instances could opt-in for a consistent identity across the platform, using an official trademark with their instance address embedded below it. Instances that use "lemmy" in their second-level domain name would simple append their .tld (such as .world), or use .sld.tld when "lemmy" is accessible from a subdomain (such as .dbzer0.com). Seemingly unrelated domain names, such as beehaw.org, would just omit the leading dot.

The navbar background itself could be further customized by the local instance. I imagine something like a watermark of a globe for lemmy.world, or a watermarked maple leaf for lemmy.ca, etc.

Obviously this is a very rough take on things (including the art style), and I'm just brainstorming ideas at this point.

What are your thoughts?

[Meta] There is a typo in this community name, need to move over to !buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works in c/buytiforlife@sh.itjust.works

[–] thayer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I do wish this wasn't the case. It easily allows for abuse and makes it harder to identify a community in the post metadata, especially on mobile.