New 'old' Beehaw interface (old.beehaw.org)

submitted 10 months ago by Penguincoder@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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Do you hate the way Beehaw website looks? Do you long for the days of that other site with the old formatting??

Well Beeple; I present the old interface thanks to Mlmym! Give it a try if that's your thing - https://old.beehaw.org.

A note here though, that is an external project dealing with the Lemmy aspects in their own way. If you find an issue or bug on https://old.beehaw.org, please try the same on https://beehaw.org before crying foul. Please report any issues or bugs to the right place to get them fixed.

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[-] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 25 points 10 months ago

Its so wrong, yet I cant look away

[-] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 22 points 10 months ago

Hey look here, our old interface while newish, is still 100% better than that other sites new interface. Look deep.

[-] jdf038@mander.xyz 13 points 10 months ago

How do we know what we see is new if our eyes are old?

/jadensmith

[-] toothpicks@beehaw.org 14 points 10 months ago

Can it have the old logo? I liked that one.

[-] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 14 points 10 months ago

Done.

[-] toothpicks@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Thank you!! This is so cool

[-] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

🤔

[-] Templa@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago

This is the perfect instance

[-] DeForrest_McCoy@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago

I like it

[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

My eyes burn so good. Seriously though, I can't figure out why Dark Reader refuses to turn on for it.

[-] ryonia@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Dark reader doesn't currently treat subdomains differently from the base domain. So if you've disabled it for beehaw.org, it'll be disabled for old.beehaw.org.

There is a 5 year old issue on this...

https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/issues/373

[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Odd, it wouldn't even let me enable it for old.beehaw.org until I turned it on for beehaw.org. Strange issue, but thanks for sharing! I managed to get it enabled.

[-] ryonia@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Something else to bear in mind, both sites have their own dark mode you can enable.

[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

Penguincoder is such a blessing to this server 🙏

[-] thehellrocc@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

Definitely nice to have, thanks. I have gotten used to Lemmy's UI, which, honestly, isn't that bad, especially when compared to the other site's new UI. But I'm gonna give this one a try either way, as I might find myself reminiscent of it.

[-] apis@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Actually like how Beehaw looks, and the flow of using it is a lot better than the rest of the Fediverse, but on a small screen this "old" style is much easier for me to use.

It'd be cool if one day we could load up *ES settings to run here, but I'd guess two sites are so different under the bonnet, that such wranglings may not be viable.

[-] BitOneZero@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Figured this was a good a place as any... when loading this post, it always reports the server is under maintenance: https://beehaw.org/post/7563292

[-] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks for letting us know. Unfortunately, Lemmy itself does not distinguish between a 404 and a 500 error, typically passing the 502 instead of the not found. Working on fixing that properly and also finding an acceptable workaround.

[-] YourHeroes4Ghosts@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

It appears to work with RES. I am sold.

[-] apis@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Can't figure out how to get it going with RES, despite a trawl through the settings. If you can give any pointers I'd be grateful.

[-] YourHeroes4Ghosts@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

I honestly don't know. I had been using old.beehaw.org for a day or so when I noticed my browser had populated some communities to the shortcuts across the top, which is when I posted the previous comment, but when I tried to rearrange them (as you can do in RES) that didn't work. So maybe it's not actually RES but just an attempt to make it visually the same as RES?