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As requested by some users: 'old' style now accessible via https://old.lemmy.world

Code can be found here: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym , created by Ryan (Is he here?) (Yes he appears to be! @nnrx@sh.itjust.works ! Thanks for this awesome front-end!)

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[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 418 points 11 months ago (9 children)

This is like a serial killer wearing their victim’s face. Good job!

[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 163 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] 4grams@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

This and the previous comment are officially the hardest I’ve laughed on this platform so far.

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[–] antik@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago

Lmao πŸ’€

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Very spot-on. I was expecting a regular HTML-based page but this just looks identical to old.reddit. I'm very impressed.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I believe Reddit's code was open sourced for a period of time, maybe that's this looks identical.

[–] madcow@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Every web frontend is source-available. You can do some obfuscation sure, but it's always possible to just grab the computed style properties when the document finished rendering.

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[–] BuckRowdy@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How do I gild this comment?

[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 74 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] MrMusAddict@lemmy.world 179 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Holy christ, there's no going back now, lol. This is BEAUTIFUL.

Is it possible to add infinite scrolling?

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 99 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] MrMusAddict@lemmy.world 86 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Actually, I see it in the options πŸ˜ƒ

Endless Scrolling + Auto Load More

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago
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[–] lemmycolon@lemmy.world 150 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Perfect. Now all I need is a ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy Enhancement Suite.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Throw in automatically embedded thumbnails so you can use Imagus on desktop, a dash of hiding posts you've voted on before and ...

Chefskiss.gif

I'm a Kbinaut myself since it was already the closest to old reddit.

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[–] khicks@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not the same without LES.

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[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 74 points 11 months ago

My new girlfriend wearing my ex-wife’s lingerie

[–] obrenden@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

This reminds me of that old site that made reddit look like Outlook so you can pretend to be working while on reddit. Now I'm pretending to be on reddit. The ol' switcharoo yadda yadda

--found the site for those curious: http://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/ but I think it's kind of broken now?

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 33 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This gives me the terrible, terrible idea of an IMAP+SMTP frontend for Lemmy.

I can't think of a technical argument why it wouldn't work, despite how cursed the concept of using Lemmy through Outlook Express sounds.

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[–] antik@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago

Yes! Thank you @ruud@lemmy.world ❀️

[–] BuckRowdy@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago

You are a legend for this.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I'm getting "site unreachable" on old.

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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

Until now I hadn't realized how disoriented I was still feeling on Lemmy just because I was so used to the old.reddit interface. This is brilliant. Thank you so much.

[–] zeekzag@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

While I don't really care about old Reddit style, it's amazing that you guys made it an option for people used to it. Based!

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

I bet there’s a pretty good overlap between β€œpeople who preferred old.reddit.com” and β€œpeople who left Reddit in disgust.” Thank you.

[–] despotic_machine@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is awesome, Ruud. You are all doing a great job here sailing this ship! Thanks so much!!

[–] kep@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Most excellent.

Are we under any impression that this will have long-term support? Or just a novelty to enjoy while it's here?

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

That's a question for the dev of MLMYM

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[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

"I've only had old.lemmy for an hour, but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself."

[–] archonet@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

now that's how a community is supposed to be run

good webdev

pat pat

edit: @nnrx@sh.itjust.works you know, if you really wanted to knock this out of the park... why not add in some features from Reddit Enhancement Suite? I dunno if anyone will ever consider porting RES over to Lemmy, but there were a lot of nice things like drag to zoom that I'll miss. if those features were implemented natively without needing an addon, that'd be super neat.

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[–] InfiniteSpaces@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Wow, i hate to admit it but i really missed this, it is awesome thanks so much.

[–] CleverNameAndNumbers@lemmy.ca 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I feel upset with how bad I want this for every instance. I know that change can be good but I want my old creature comforts of when I was 19 and learning about the front page of the internet, chuck testa and maymays

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly, this is such a damn game-changer it's not even funny. Excellent work.

Once phone-apps spin up, I think you'll see another massive wave of those abandoning Reddit, which has screwed so many overβ€”including developers.

Why fix what isn't broke? I appreciate that you've adopted tried-and-truth UI designs to take this site to the next level and improve upon it

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Guess I wasn't the only one with the idea, huh: https://old.lemmings.world

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[–] HereticButcher@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

I feel a calming warmth, like a nice long hug from a warm grandma. An oh so familiar smell, something I slightly remember from my youth, but new, refreshing, like a cool mist from the ocean lightly hitting your face as watch a new day rise. I am home.

[–] writeorelse@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] TauZero@mander.xyz 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Btw, old reddit used to display the exact upvote/downvote counts ("x upvoted, y downvoted") for posts AND comments in the "title" attribute of the total number, visible as a tooltip when hovering the mouse over it. All that "x% upvoted it" for posts and removing the counts entirely for comments was nonsense pushed through by the previous reddit jerk CEO on 2014-06-18 against all community opposition (what is it with reddit and dumping unpopular changes in June?).

If you gonna recreate old reddit, please do not include these later CEO meddlings in it! One of the best features of lemmy is the display of exact counts (which was also a major advertised draw of voat.com and raddle.me before it). Let's keep that in!

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[–] sma3in@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

will reddit enhancement suite work on this? this is fantastic!!! good job lemmy team

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[–] ratskrad@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Ruud >>> Spez

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This is a thing of true beauty. Behold the real power of an open platform. Lemmy really is going from strength to strength!

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[–] DolphLundgren@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

I love this so much. Thank you!

[–] lechatron@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

I'm now officially supporting .world on Patreon because of this.

[–] chipamogli@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

This is actually amazing. I'm starting to love Lemmy, the content and comments are feeling like my first days on reddit, but cleaner and it has that good free/open source feeling. I'm gradually visiting Lemmy more each day. Once a RES-like extension comes out, I'll be full time here.

Edit: it even has dark mode and endless scrolling. Unbelievable.

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[–] bunny_funeral@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

holy fuck it's like i never left

[–] Mythril@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

Haha cool, unlike old.reddit this also looks great on mobile!

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