Jeremy from the AMD Lemonade team here. We just released Lemonade v8.0.4, which adds some often-requested formatting to the LLM Chat part of our web ui (see video).

A discussion we keep having on the team is: how far does it make sense to develop our own web ui, if the primary purpose of Lemonade is to be a local server that connects to other apps?

My take is that people should just use the web ui to try things out for the first time, then connect to a more capable end-user app like Open WebUI or Continue.dev. There's another take that we should just make the web ui as nice as possible, since it is the first thing our users see after they install.

* Some things we should almost certainly add: image input, buttons to load and unload models.
* Something we're on the fence about is a sidebar with a chat history.

I'm curious to get the community's feedback to help settle the debate!

PS. details of the video:

* GitHub: [lemonade-sdk/lemonade: Local LLM Server with GPU and NPU Acceleration](https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade)
* Quick Start: [Lemonade Server](https://lemonade-server.ai/)
* Model: Qwen3 MOE (30B total / 3B active)
* Hardware: Strix Halo (Ryzen AI Max 395+ with 128 GB RAM)
* Inference engine: llama.cpp with Vulkan

Help settle a debate on the Lemonade team: how much web UI is too much for a local server?