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Alexandrite is a Beautiful Web Frontend for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)
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Alexandrite is slick, gorgeous, and brings a lot to the Lemmy experience. I highly recommend giving it a try.

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[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lemmy apps are still in development and all are subtly buggy, so until those are updated and refined, sometimes the web view is the only accurate one. So yes, at times I prefer the browser.

edit: for another example, see the Reddit app. I entirely prefer the browser over it.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Just want to add to my comment that the #1 reason I sometimes prefer the browser over an app is that you can open content in multiple tabs, just like on desktop. I can have several tabs open, each dedicated to viewing one community. Easier to cut and paste urls and other content into other apps. I don’t like being confined to one viewport for everything. It’s nice being able to interrupt reading a discussion to go down a rabbit hole in another tab, then close it and pick up where I left off. Navigation in the apps can be generally unpredictable right now. Or you completely lose your place and have to go find it again. Lots of pros to using a browser for it.