tldr: chapo.chat isn't ready yet.

Don't worry, you'll get to be called libs by the users from lemmygrad.ml Soon™.

[chapo.chat is] running a heavily modified version of lemmy forked months ago, for not just the front end, but the back end as well. Once they’re up to date with the most recent lemmy versions that have federation working, then we can try federation, on the back end at least. Their back end devs are great, but their front end devs contribute nothing upstream, and will have to re-create all the federation-related parts of the lemmy-ui code for their own fork.

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EDIT: See @Beatnik's comment

  • disco [any]
    2·
    4 years ago

    The interface (at least on mobile which is what I use, android and iOS) is so absolutely fucking trash that it’s almost funny.

    It’s impossible to zoom in on any image. If you double tap, it shrinks the thumbnail instead of linking to the image. If you try to pinch and zoom, instead of zooming on the image is just spazzes out and scrolls away. Half the time the image will be collapsed so it’s hard to find the link again after this happens.

    Any image with small (or even normal sized) text is almost impossible to read. Devs, why are you like this?

    Edit:I still love you all for working hard, for free, to bring this site to us.