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P(aul) Frazee

@pfrazee.com

Is it time to start the community-built HN/lobsters replacement?

Jim Ray

@jimray.bsky.team

@jola.dev made shelf.cafe jola.dev/posts/buildi...

jola.devBuilding an atproto link aggregatorAs a little passion project I built an atproto link aggregator service in Elixir and this post goes into some detail about why I'm doing this and how it works.

johanna

@jola.dev

Thank you for the shout out! I've been working on improvements to the underlying Elixir libraries and released new versions today, so next up is a bunch of UI improvements for Shelf. I want to make new comments and replies much more visible! I love that it's seeing more users!

25/10/26, 5:20 pm0 reposts17 likes

leah 🛸

@spacegirl.ing

this is a silly complaint but i think something about the ui for shelf.cafe feels "overengineered" compared to e.g. hn or lobste.rs in that there is almost too much polish- the alternatives have very minimal and inobtrusive styling, wide layouts, etc and i think it creates a good character!

leah 🛸

@spacegirl.ing

i actually ended up making a userstyle for frontpage.fyi to make it look like lobste.rs and it made it much more pleasing and usable userstyles.club/style/spaceg...

userstyles.clubFrontsters · userstyles.clubTurn frontpage.fyi into lobste.rs.