We had to turn old.feddit.uk off because it was getting hammered by bots and dragging the performance down. See the sidebar for other alternative frontends.
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Ah sweet, thanks for the info. I'll take a look at the other frontends. Cheers!
To be honest, I think they're both better than.old - they look nicer and have excellent functionality.
They are:
- Photon - definitely my pick
- Alexandrite
We've also had a chat about adding Tesseract too.
I think the instance needs to have these interfaces installed, I guess feddit.uk doesn't.
We did (see the sidebar) but had to take old.feddit.uk because it was getting hammered by bots. We've improved the security, so it might be we can bring it back. @flamingos@feddit.uk is more knowledgeable about such matters though, so I am tagging them in.
It would probably be fine to bring it back now we IP ban AI scrapers, though I'd want to monitor it for a bit to make sure. I'll spin it back up tomorrow evening as I have time then.
Great, it seems there is demand for it, even if I think it is an eyesore.
Yeah exactly this, I actually went with L.W over F.UK because I want to use the old interface when on a computer
Just an FYI in case you haven't checked back here, but the old interface is back - https://old.feddit.uk/
The front end and back end of Lemmy are decoupled. This means you're using lemmy through a web app amd API, and it also means third parties can create alternatuve front ends.
There's an increasing number of them.
The "old" front end is one of these. It doesn't ship with Lemmy, and needs to be installed and maintained separately by the site's admins. Not everyone is going to bother, any more than they're going to bother hosting Tesseract or Voyager.
old.feddit.uk is currently back. I'll monitor it for the next few hours to see if it can stay up.
Small update, instance has slowed quite a bit. Added Amazonbot to the blocklist as it accounts for 75% of the requests made to old since starting it back up.