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So I made a few custom Lemmy themes/CSS tweaks that I think the community would appreciate.

It aims to provide more color options, as well as reduce whitespace and make it easier to follow comment chains. Created it for use with beehaw, but should work with any Lemmy instance.

Just make sure to use the default litely theme in your Lemmy settings before testing these out, they were built with that in mind.

Please let me know if you have any other ideas or improvements, and feel free to submit pull requests!

How to use: Install any custom CSS extension/plugin for your browser, and paste the CSS in there. I personally use Amino for Edge and filter the CSS for the beehaw.org domain, but any custom CSS extension or plugin should work.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

https://userstyles.world/style/10250/ancom-red-meant-to-be-used-with-darkly-red I also made one!

Feel free to add it, although I haven't really cleaned it up yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's awesome! You're more than welcome to submit it to the repo as well if you want to, otherwise I'm glad other people are doing Lemmy theming as well - I'm all for expanding user choice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

submitted a PR, my first since 2016 hahaha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've accepted your pull request, and added new folders for litely/darkly themes, as I do plan to expand on the dark themes as well, just to make it clearer to anyone visiting which themes are for which :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I noticed I actually fucked up the theme when I cleaned it up just now, so, give me a bit and i'll be submitting another...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ONE MORE I'M SORRY I MISSED SOMETHING!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I felt this thread in my soul, as I’m never more hyper aware about bugs in my code as I am after I’ve already submitted the PR.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is there a way to work smoothly between a userstyles hosting site and a github repo? or do you have to copy and paste back and forth all the time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't make many changes, so, I've just been copy/pasting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

fair enough! thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need Lemmy with the Dracula theme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m sure that could be arranged! Will take a crack at it once I’ve got a bit of time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey so I made a Dracula theme! Let me know if you think I've missed anything or it needs any changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That looks phenomenal. I'll check your repo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@HrBingR so these are user installable in the browser (through stylus or whatever extension)? How nice!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yup! Doesn't rely on instance owners adding more themes to their instances, can be used by any user on any instance that has the default litely theme installed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can’t wait for a Catppuccin theme, maybe I should make one🧐

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can take a look when I have a bit more time, otherwise feel free to make one and submit a pull request :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a great base for people to create their own. I much prefer the wider page width to Lemmy's default on desktop.

Personally, though, I find the box outline colors in these themes to be a little loud.

I tweaked the CSS and made it look a bit more understated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay that makes sense, will try to create a few more subtle themes, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alright, I've added some 'quieter' options that look a lot less colorful for those that want something a bit more subtle, both for the light and dark themes. Thank you for the feedback!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do you make this a selectable theme in Lemmy-ui settings?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately you can't; it would need to be implemented by the owner of the instance to make it selectable there, but these themes have been built to work with the default litely theme on any Lemmy instance, all you need is a browser plugin/extension that can inject custom CSS in order to use these themes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately you can’t; it would need to be implemented by the owner of the instance to make it selectable there

If you manage to create a polished theme we can have a look at integrating it. It's not that hard technically: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/theming.html

See also: https://beehaw.org/post/537486, https://beehaw.org/post/432603

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll see what I can do; the changes I've made can definitely use some tweaking. What would be the best way of checking in once I have something to demo? Should I DM you directly, or is there perhaps a way to contact the admins that you'd prefer I use?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You could create a post on [email protected], we'll probably see it. If we don't reply within a day, just ping me directly on here or Matrix (linked in profile). I can't promise anything though as I'm not the only one deciding on this, but as a non-default theme we can most likely integrate it after your tweaks.