I’m aware of Photon and Alexandrite, but since Alexandrite is now unmaintained, Photon seems to be my only viable option at the moment. I’ve also been searching for an old Reddit–style UI, but so far I haven’t been able to find one that fits the bill.
Does anyone know of any active alternatives, or ways to achieve that classic look with current tools?
I think Piefed has a workable API now, but the big limitation for me is that all of the components that make up Tess are tightly coupled to Lemmy’s type definitions.
To support Piefed, I would need to make a translation layer to build Lemmy-esque objects from Piefed’s API responses. That’s perfectly doable, but Lemmy’s type definitions are also limiting a lot of things I want to do. I’ve extended a few of them but, really, I need to re-write most of these components to use platform agnostic interfaces that meet my own needs while mapping both Lemmy and Piefed objects to those.
Unfortunately, that’s going to take a lot of work that I just don’t have time to dedicate to right now. Life has been hectic to say the least.
I’m sorry to hear that, but it does make sense - the whole Fediverse is like the wild West, and things are barely being “done”, much less properly with an eye to elimination of the technical debt, even while people are actively trying to use it.
Keep doing what’s fun for you! Especially if that helps with the irl stress. The latter may get worse, as e.g. it looks like the USA is next preparing to take on Cuba as a target - and then either Greenland and/or Canada?
We all gotta find a way to survive somehow…