List of open-source alternative front-ends for popular internet platforms

[UCyborg]

Since mentions of alternative front-ends for sites like YouTube, Twitter, Reddit etc. are appearing randomly on the forum and finding them again is a PITA, I'm leaving a link here with a list of such sites.

https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

Edited December 3, 2022 by UCyborg

[D.Draker]

On 12/3/2022 at 10:45 PM, UCyborg said:

https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

Instagram from that link doesn't work, here's a good one for you. I don't know whose this site though. (maybe russian), proceed with caution.

https://inflact.com/profiles/instagram-viewer/

[UCyborg]

Right, there's also https://imginn.com/ for Instagram.

I'm most interested in the ones for YouTube, though I'm still sticking to the actual YT most of the time. While Piped has light GUI, it doesn't work with the current SeaMonkey, which I use sometimes instead of Pale Moon, the former is a bit behind on JavaScript features, but a bit more responsive. I'll check the latest version of SeaMonkey sometime in the future, currently lagging for one or two versions behind, worried about extension compatibility, which SeaMonkey is poorer for since it's not a very popular browser and uses different GUI compared to more popular Mozilla based forks + plus some other quirks. I noticed the latest version of Palefill extension doesn't fix GitHub on SeaMonkey anymore...

Not a big fan of programming, I did manage to fix DownThemAll! on my own a while back by studying a bit of JavaScript when extension broke when they removed some obscure Mozilla specific JavaScript feature from SeaMonkey.

Piped doesn't seem to cache as much video in memory like stock YouTube. Unless the video is long and/or 60 FPS, chances are it will remain in memory on YouTube, so if you put it on the loop, it won't keep re-downloading parts of it.

[UCyborg]

Looks like official lightweight mobile page for Reddit at https://i.reddit.com/ is gone and is redirected to the normal page that tells you to use the app.

[msfntor]

On 12/4/2022 at 11:06 PM, D.Draker said:

Instagram from that link doesn't work, here's a good one for you. I don't know whose this site though. (maybe russian), proceed with caution.

https://inflact.com/profiles/instagram-viewer/

inflact.com: "WEB VIEWER FOR INSTAGRAM" is safe, but from Belarus, some checkers says: Not in database (TrendMicro, Scumware.org, ...) 

 

"LookUp a site" online services:

PulseDive: https://pulsedive.com/analyze/ says: Data Protect, Belarus, Not in database.

Trustscam: https://trustscam.com/ says: status: OK.

URLVoid: https://www.urlvoid.com/ says: Detections Counts: 0/40

Norton: https://safeweb.norton.com/ says: OK safe.

RadioTuzla.com: https://radiotuzla.com/ says: 

Inflact by ingramer – marketing toolkit for instagram - Inflact.com

Summary for Inflact.com: Inflact.com was created more than 2 years ago. In accordance with Google Safe Browsing and Symantec inflact.com is pretty a safe domain. Updated: Mon, 03 Apr 2023. Here: https://inflact.com.radiotuzla.com/

Edited April 3, 2023 by msfntor

[D.Draker]

15 hours ago, msfntor said:

inflact.com: "WEB VIEWER FOR INSTAGRAM" is safe, but from Belarus, some checkers says: Not in database (TrendMicro, Scumware.org, ...) 

Holy cow ! I didn't know that. But to be fair, I did put a warning to it ! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I suggest we ignore that site then, besides - it became crapified with censorship !

[UCyborg]

Any Reddit frontend I try, on seemingly many parts of the site, it returns error 429 - too many requests. Perhaps https://eddrit.com/ will hold up better.

Edit: OK, guess Reddit is limiting any 3rd party service accessing it.

Edited September 21, 2023 by UCyborg