I was gonna do this quietly since I was doing it mostly for security fixes, but now I guess I gotta announce that I deployed lemmy 0.18.1 to the awful.systems cluster. changes include
- sweet christ did this UI get smaller and uglier? whose idea was this.
- we have more theme options! most of them are terrible. there is a vaporwave theme I kinda like in a geocities way. if you come here and it looks like geocities I switched to that one
- they fixed like 3 out of the 4 webdev 101 security holes they left in the code
- there’s some small new UI features?
- sometimes they just make changes for no reason
- let me know if anything looks broken
the bit where i change theme (the vaporwave one was amusing for 2 seconds then I changed it back) and the “delete account” button is much easier to hit than the “save” button is a design choice that makes its intent clear
the vaporwave theme is so close to being good! they didn’t think to make it usable though. now I’m torn between what’s a higher priority, hacking together a better CSS theme, or fixing the fucking shocking security and dev mistakes the lemmy team keeps making
White and light blue on a light grey background is the wave of the future, clearly. We’re disrupting the concept of visual contrast
fuck it you’re right,
darkly-pureblack(this name is so awful I had to check to make sure I didn’t hallucinate it) it is. ima miss the red highlights but somehow they broke those in 0.18.0 so they don’t work on mobile? so this is at least consistent
like fuck I have an entire rant building but maybe focusing on dumbass growth hacking and stupid ideas while your UI just string templates HTML together with no sanitization at any point is a terrible idea? maybe???
welcome to open source, comrade! here are both pieces. thank you for our bug fixes!
I vow that this quote will headline the README for the fork, both as a personal attack towards the lemmy devs and as a mission statement
some days you’re Stakhanov, some days you’re Boxer
