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Don't like the PieFed UI design? Try this! (b.piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Try https://b.piefed.social/ instead! Log in with the same username and password as piefed.social.

It works best on a phone / tablet but on a desktop it's fine too once you switch to compact mode.

It can be installed as a PWA.

There are also lots of themes you can try at https://piefed.social/user/settings. Here are some screenshots of them - https://join.piefed.social/screenshots/

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That would be a nice gesture and I think I'll do that in future, if I have the spoons.

@moseschrute@lemmy.world have you considered adding "Powered by Blorp" with a link to your site at the bottom of the left column? That way every copy of the software has your stamp on it and SEOs you.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Thought about it. Blorp is a client side rendered app. It makes it really easy to host since it's just a collection of static html, JS, and CSS files, but not the best for SEO. From what I can tell, Google's crawler can run JS but I don't think Bing (which I think DuckDuckGo is based on?) can.

It's pretty difficult trying to share 99% code between web and "native" iOS/Android apps. I decided early on that SEO would add one too many constraints with not enough benefit. But SEO aside, I think linking back to the software somewhere in the UI would be nice so users can learn more about the app they're using.