Interesting. While the FHF hasn't updated mlmym (the software running on old.lemmy.world) in quite a while, there isn't really any reason for it to have completely broken either. Can you maybe share in what way? Like, does it not load at all anymore, or is it individual features that have stopped working?

I have suggested that they pull my changes to their version, but they are understandably very busy and didn't have the time to review it, so that unfortunately didn't happen. Many instances have simply switched the version they are running instead.

see if I can pull those bits back out myself.

Might as well just use my version directly :)
It also comes with a bunch of other improvements, bug fixes, and a few new features.

Some of those issues have already been fixed in my fork of mlmym :)

• federated image_proxy image posts
• AVIF images

The others haven't, unfortunately. In regards to the paginating issue on comments, I've already made improvements to that, but the underlying issue is due to the way lemmy's comments API works and not easily fixable without introducing a lot more API requests per page view (see #36).

There are browser addons you can use to change the styling on individual sites, like Stylus for Firefox. They require some knowledge of CSS though.

For example, to change the font of the comment input field to your browser's default sans-serif font:

@-moz-document domain("old.lemmy.world") {
  .savecomment textarea {
    font-family: sans-serif;
  }
}

edit: I totally missed that there was already a comment explaining pretty much the exact same thing. Whoops

Unfortunately not. I am however working on decoupling mlmym from lemmy's internal API structures, so in the future, adding support to mbin should be much easier. However, the priority supporting the v4 API (for lemmy's upcoming 1.0.0 update), so I expect this will still take quite a while :)

The FHF fork hasn't been updated in a while. I hate to do self-promotion, but I have my own fork of mlmym (based on the FHF version) you can use if you want, which has quite a few bugs fixed and some new features.

There's also another fork (based on my version) now, which is running on old.lemmy.zip.

Oh, that's a client that works directly in emacs, I wasn't aware something like that existed! Thank you for sharing. I had assumed you were simply using a web interface in eww.

What are you using for that? old.lemmy.zip? I would've thought that wouldn't work since it's behind cloudflare, but I just tried it and it does. Interesting.

You can read more about it on this page:

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis

I couldn't help but notice that you have mlmym listed as “Mlymym” on this page. Should probably fix that 😅

The lemmy.zip admin has also started their own fork of the project a few days ago, which could also be mentioned for completeness: https://git.dotzip.ltd/demigodrick/mlmym

And lastly, there's a very minor thing I noticed, which is that the badge for my repository (code.mschae23.de/mschae23/mlmym) uses the codeberg logo instead of the forgejo one, and incorrectly mentions gitea in the alt text.

Otherwise, great overview!

old.lemmy does this thing where you can't see any replies under you if someone you blocked replied as well

Do you mean it doesn't show replies from blocked users (which would be correct), or that you can't see replies to your comment if there's a sibling comment from a blocked user? I'm slightly confused 😅

But in general, if you find any odd behaviour or bugs in mlmym or if you have feature requests, feel free to send them to #mlmym:mschae23.de, !mlmym@lemmy.world, or mlmym@lists.mschae23.de, whichever you prefer :)

Thank you for sharing, I wasn't aware of this feature. But to be fair, PieFed has it easier here because it has a ‘main’ frontend (unlike lemmy, where all frontends are third-party as far as the main software is concerned) that you can apply styling to. Even then, it can only work on that main frontend and not any alternate clients.

I really need to follow PieFed more closely, to be honest. It has so much stuff…

edit: actually, I just noticed this:

The custom CSS/JS/Jinja needs to be submitted and approved first, but then a moderator could add it to the community as the official theme.

So I assume an admin has to add it as a possible theme first, right? If that's good enough, I guess something similar could be done in mlmym too. mlmym should already be very easy to style; it doesn't have a skins/themes mechanism, but that's nothing that couldn't be added.

I think I'm still favorable to the addon approach because it would mean that the custom style could work across every mlmym installation without needing admin involvement, but a theme system is also a reasonable compromise.

It doesn't, and due to the way lemmy frontends work, it likely won't ever natively have that feature. Something that might be possible though is a browser addon that applies custom CSS to communities when visiting them through mlmym? But someone would have to make that, and get moderators to submit custom CSS for their communities…