Alternative front end UI for Lemmy (looks like old.reddit)

https://mlmym.org/programming.dev/?sort=Hot&listingType=Local

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/428156

Discovered from this Hacker News post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36610884

28 points · 7 comments · view on lemmy.world

7 Comments

RonSijm@programming.dev · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Really neat, was hoping someone would build something like this. I'm not the biggest fan of the default Lemmy skin.

But the login is a bit sketchy... I checked the network, and logging in just sends your credentials to their site (POST https://mlmym.org/programming.dev/) with the password in cleartext.

Not saying that the developer has any bad intentions, but if anything is misconfigured, like nginx logging incoming requests or something, it would be a security disaster if someone would somehow be able to access it

I don't know if this is a limitation of Lemmy / ActivityPub but I'd prefer if the auth happened directly to the Lemmy instance.

ruffsl@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y

Yeah, I'd be hesitant to ever login to a third party client I couldn't self host. Hopefully O-Auth might be a future feature for Lemmy.

chrisvander@programming.dev · 6 pts · 3y

Neat! I like the look. Feels fast too, just like Old Reddit.

mark@programming.dev · 4 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Looked around and it's impressive they were able to replicate so much functionality! It doesnt seem to federate with other fedi platforms, though. At least it doesnt with Lemmy.

ruffsl@programming.dev · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Did you try changing the instance name in the URL, or toggling between local and all on the left of the top menu sidebar?

mark@programming.dev · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Oh I mean I can't seem to see any of the communities or posts made there on my Lemmy instance (the one I'm writing this comment from)

sotolf@programming.dev · 3 pts · 3y

I'm writing to you through mlmym right now, so it's no problem on my side at least.