Vier Facelift?
Before I started work on BookLook the plan was to just create a modern UI style for the "Vier" theme along the same lines of what I did with Bookface for the "Frio" theme. I didn't really get all that far with the one for Vier, but it was pretty functional - at least on desktop. I hadn't thought about the mobile UI. Instead of Facebook this "Modern" style takes design cues from both Mastodon and Bluesky.
Anyway, I pulled that stylesheet into Friendica 2026.08-dev and now I'm wondering if I should just go ahead and finish it? I'm not sure how Vier users feel about it. Is there any interest in this?
As for what's left to do, the two sections you see above are the only ones I finished styling. Though the layout seems to work pretty well across most of the Friendica. I'd also need to figure out the responsive design including how this transforms into a mobile UI for phones and tablets, and of course make a "dark mode" variant.
Not sure if it would get into the Friendica core code or not, but if there's interest I can work on finishing it and at least release it on my own repository like I do with Bookface.
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Random Penguin
in reply to Random Penguin • • •Curious whether people would want this theme style to work like Bluesky/Mastodon where:
* The main feeds only show you the actual posts and none of the comments
* You click the post body to open that post in a new window by itself with all its comments
It would require adding a couple invisible elements to a Vier template to pull it off, but I don't know if people like the way Bluesky and Mastodon make you go to a new page to see the comments or if Friendica users would want that?
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in reply to Random Penguin • • •While trying this out I've decided I'm going to submit a PR that offers "Hide Comments in Feeds" as Settings > Display option for ALL themes (turned off by default of course).
People who want a really compact feed will love it. People who don't like extra clicks will hate it. But nobody has to use it if they don't want to.
In every feed all of the comments are hidden. But you click on the post body and it opens the post in its own page, only there it will actually show you any comments under it.
This is exactly how the web UI of both Mastodon and Bluesky work so it is a UX with which many users will already be familiar.
The trick is making sure that all the other stuff in the post still works as expected. Embedded videos and audio. Attachments. Images. Links with thumbnails. The contact links in the post header. The (re)action buttons below. Commenting without having to first open the post in the single display page.
EDIT: I finally figured out where, exactly, to prevent the comments being created in the feeds at all if this option is enabled.
Now, if I can just get all these PRs I've been working on submitted...
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Leander Lindahl
in reply to Random Penguin • •I think I'd like to see the mobile view to be able to offer an opinion.
Edit: but now after you mentioned it, find it super annoying that it doesn't behave like Mastodon, but the comments are expanded all the time in Friendica. But not all of them?
(Using bookface on mobile)
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