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Request to remove Tesseract Front-End (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 days ago by cheeseburger@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca

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Developer is targeting individuals with a blacklist he maintians, enabled by default. Dev can do what he wants, but I'd like my home instance to consider removing it as a front end.

YSK post: https://lemmy.world/post/49813386

Dev post about it: https://lemmy.today/post/57096701

Blacklist: https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 100 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Yeah we'd been discussing this but nobody had a chance to make this thread about it yet. It feels dishonest for the app to have these hidden biases, so I'd rather just kill it.

I've pulled tesseract down now.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Consider using the fork by db0 which removes this stuff: https://github.com/db0/tesseract

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

But are they going to actually maintain it?

Edit:

This fork was created by a divisions by zer0 admin after we noticed the original developer silently blacklisted all leftist and trans-friendly instances like the massive turbolib they are. We just removed his blacklist and we'll eventually drop this frontend once lemmy 1.0 comes around.

So not a huge commitment, though I'm not sure how close 1.0 is to release.

[–] candyman337@piefed.ca 9 points 4 days ago

I think the photon UI is pretty good as a replacement

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Argh this sucks. The UI is so much better than everything else.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 10 points 4 days ago

Fork in 3... 2... 1...

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Have you tried Blorp?

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Just a bit. It's not bad but I don't like the look as much. I really like the comment nesting though. I wish the mod options were better, not that I use them all that much.

Maybe I'll bounce back and forth between photon and blorp and see which one sticks.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What are some of the features that you like? Maybe some of the other front ends can replicate it / add it

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's primarily just the look. Photon's easily the closest both in terms of appearance and features. I honestly haven't given other front ends a serious look for long time, so I'll check them out and hope that team tess runs out of crazy pills soon.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ah gotcha. If it helps anyone, the relevant pages for theming on photon:

layout: https://photon.lemmy.ca/settings/app
color/theme: https://photon.lemmy.ca/theme

For Blorp: https://blorp.lemmy.ca/settings (see appearance)

Of the two, Photon has a bit more customization on the theme colors