Hey everyone,

I’ve deployed a feddit.uk specific instance of wefwef at app.feddit.uk

If you haven’t heard of wefwef before, it’s essentially a mobile UI which you can deploy as a PWA to your phone, the link for the actual app is here https://wefwef.app

So that we don’t rely on wefwef servers, I’ve deployed a local version which should be faster as it runs on the same server as feddit.uk so is essentially a second UI to the regular web app as I’ve limited to feddit.uk only at the moment.

Thanks, Tom

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    1 year ago

    This instance reminds me of the old MySpace days: we’re all friends with a chap called Tom who’s made us a nice little community :D

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      1 year ago

      There was a certain sense of community when everyone knew who you referred to when you just said “tom” or “smeg”.

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    1 year ago

    It’s pretty good, but as an Android user it feels weird. I actually quite enjoy using the default web UI, as it seems much smoother than all the native apps I’ve tried. I am looking forward to Sync for Lemmy though.

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      Ah, that’s why it felt “wrong”. I thought it just had some really weird style choices, and that it felt like a Xiaomi skin or something. But it’s probably that it has sped the iOS style (I’ve not used an iPhone in many years)

      Personally, I’ve found jerboa to be pretty good

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        1 year ago

        Yes, I believe it’s based on Apollo which is an iOS app. Jerboa is probably my favourite app so far but it’s a little clunky.

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    1 year ago

    Nice! I’ve been using wefwef almost exclusively for the last week. It’s my favourite way to use Lemmy. Great to have a dedicated instance.

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    1 year ago

    Not a real tech-savvy guy, but what are the advantages of using this over wefwef?

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      Not much to be honest, it helps take the load of wefwef’s own site and this instance should be quicker as well.

      Also an advantage for me is that I added a feature in wefwef so I can approve or deny registration applications but the code hasn’t been approved in the main app yet so I wanted to deploy my own version with that in it!

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    1 year ago

    Very cool! I am finding interactions slightly sluggish compared to desktop but that could be to do with the age of the phone and using Firefox.