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Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by fareesh »

neoplatonian wrote: post #56

Hi. As someone new to frontend, could anyone tell me how frontend for lightweight-but-very-functional sites like these (also hackernews) built? Do they use something like Next.js for server-side-rendering? Which frameworks would you recommend to build a social network, if one wanted to avoid Single Page frameworks like React and Vue?

You don't need to use react and vue as single page frameworks, you can just use them for reactivity / events. There are lightweight alternatives for that too.

If you do it that way you don't need server side rendering since your JS is only handling events and there are no client side components or anything like that.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by hilbertseries »

meowster wrote: post #46
blhack wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy crap.

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The Republican Secretary of State and his officials says there’s nothing unusual about the video in question. So, is the presumption now a vast conspiracy involving democrats and republicans to turn the election for Biden?

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by Kye »

meowster wrote: post #46
blhack wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy crap.

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They can post it somewhere with standards of evidence if they want to be taken seriously. Why waste time looking into it on the off chance it has more veracity than everything around it?

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by [deleted] »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #24
gkoberger wrote: post #4

There's a weird paradox... I believe in privacy/free speech/etc, however any social media targeted at those usecases tend to be a cesspool of horribleness.

eg: voat vs reddit when reddit started banning objectionable subs edit: it is even more true than I thought. Look at the homepage of https://voat.co at your own risk.

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Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by lethologica »

henlo wrote: post #60

Wait, I just realized after 15 minutes browsing this website that I'm not using VPN. Reddit is blocked in my country, so Teddit will be the replacement for me. I like browsing Reddit without an account, just to read something. But I don't want to install their super big mobile app (1GB+), and I hate their lagging and weird website on mobile.

Whoa, their app is 1GB+? Why on Earth is it so large? After all of their horrible, annoying, devious and deceitful ways that they've tried to get me to install the app when trying to browse their mobile site I will never ever install that app and this is just another good reason not to.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by tetraca »

neoplatonian wrote: post #56

Hi. As someone new to frontend, could anyone tell me how frontend for lightweight-but-very-functional sites like these (also hackernews) built? Do they use something like Next.js for server-side-rendering? Which frameworks would you recommend to build a social network, if one wanted to avoid Single Page frameworks like React and Vue?

Having built sites of similar levels of interactivity, we would have used some sort of server side framework with a template library (A custom PHP framework+Smarty, Spring Boot+Thymeleaf, Python+Django), without any front end frameworks at all. We would use jQuery a little, and later some Bootstrap. But these days vanilla JS would probably suffice for what we'd generally have used jQuery for. This is probably a bit old school at this point, I'm sure.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by lethologica »

dimator wrote: post #57

If they could find a way to mirror v.reddit.com videos (using an alternate host, like streamable or whatnot) that would really be a welcome addition. Also, for now it seems you can't log in to your reddit account (maybe that's by design), which means you have to bookmark your subs using e.g. teddit.net/r/videos+haskell+woodworking which honestly is not that bad.

After I realised how long I was spending mindlessly browsing Reddit, this is what I ended up doing. I nuked my account and just bookmarked the subs I was subscribed to. Now whenever I feel like I need a hit of Reddit, I visit one of my bookmarks and do a quick catchup. I've done the same with YouTube and have found I spend far less time on these sites now with just the slightly added friction of deleting an account (which I believe now offer no real benefits at all if you're just consuming the content).

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by edoceo »

grishka wrote: post #45
sdan wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Title Content tag allows you to do that iirc. I use it on my site and works fine to hide things that you can expand upon when clicked.

Another way is to use the checkbox-and-CSS trick. You add a hidden checkbox next to the element you want to hide, add a label to trigger the checkbox, and then use a + selector to toggle the visibility based on the state of the checkbox. Like this: Toggle spoiler Spoilery stuff goes here #spoiler, #spoilerContent{display: none;} #spoiler:checked+#spoilerContent{display: block;} You can also use a variation of this fo…

Thanks!

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by dghughes »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #24
gkoberger wrote: post #4

There's a weird paradox... I believe in privacy/free speech/etc, however any social media targeted at those usecases tend to be a cesspool of horribleness.

eg: voat vs reddit when reddit started banning objectionable subs edit: it is even more true than I thought. Look at the homepage of https://voat.co at your own risk.

Yeah voat started out with good intentions but quickly degraded into a right-wing magnet.
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