cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72814294
I only know Tesseract as an offshoot of Cube 2 Sauerbraten
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2026
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Wait which frontends don't need that monster?
Basic Lemmy works without JS. Some stuff breaks, but it's still usable.
Can't vote or comment without JS
They say: "Javascript is disabled. Actions will not work"
Some stuff breaks, but it’s still usable.
You can see posts, thus it's usable.
That's more like "almost all, but not all of the stuff breaks".
I disliked that Tesseract was a bit of a busy mess, visually. I genuinely wanted to like it because it definitely added several useful features. I even self-hosted it for a while. But the default Lemmy UI is so much more simple/streamlined and handles 95% of what I want to do anyway. I would only use Tesseract on occasion, when I needed to perform some action that I knew Tesseract handled better than the default Lemmy UI. But default PieFed supports every feature I liked out of Tesseract anyway, so I didn't miss it at all when I switched from a Lemmy instance to a PieFed instance.
Wait, people are actually out here daily driving the default Lemmy web UI instead of using their own client?
When I'm on the toilet, I use a client app on my phone, but when I'm at my desk, I use my desktop and the web ui. Why would I use an app there?
There're alternative frontends that your admin. can install (and some designed so you can use without them being installed on your particular instance: https://phtn.app/ (https://phtn.app/accounts/login, to login)); no need for any app. (outside your browser) to be installed for you to use a different web UI other than the default one.
Yeah, that's a pretty common setup. I'd estimate about half of users just stick with the default web UI.
Definitely why wouldn't I?
yes, me.
Have you tried Alexandrite?
The only web client that doesn't use JavaScript is mlmym. the modern slopware on the web where websites pump 5 MB of scripts straight to your browser is insanity, but JavaScript can also make websites much much nicer to use (routers that don't require full page reload).
Leave JS alone? 🥲 /s