Hi everyone!

2025 is here, and I’m curious to hear your thoughts on Voyager for Lemmy.

  • What features would you like to see added to Voyager in 2025?
  • Are there any bugs or issues that are bothering you?

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  • fubarx@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I mostly use it on an iPad mini in landscape mode, when lying down and casually reading. Two things:

    1. When scrolling on the main feed, if your left or right finger accidentally touches the screen, instead of scrolling, you’re inside the post, which isn’t what you intended. So you have to be extra careful keeping your fingers away. Be nice if there was a 1 or 2" zone on each side which only does scroll instead of tap. Not sure I’m explaining it right.

    2. Again, on an iPad mini, the Post box only shows a couple of lines for editing. Most of the screen is taken by application chrome.

    Other than that, love the app. Use it daily.

  • shinratdr@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Features: Tablet layout on iPad, GIF scrobbling with swipe.

    Bugs: Database error, UI missing requiring quit and restart.

    Overall though, Voyager is amazing & indispensable. Great job :)

  • Venicone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Just dropping in to say brilliant app mate! It fills the Apollo shaped void in my wee geeky soul. Can’t think of anything to make it better as it already does everything I want.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Sometimes I’m far down in a thread and then swipe back to my subscribed list, but then I regret and go back into the thread. It would be nice if it remembered my last position in a thread. Maybe just for a few seconds, in case.

    • toomuchbeer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’d love this for the list of posts as well. Sometimes I accidentally tap back, then if I hit All or Subscribed or whatever again my position is gone.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Sometimes my feed just randomly refreshes, losing my position. As in I’ll be scrolling, or swipe to go back to posts from a post, but it’ll refresh the posts and return me to the top. It feels like a bug, but happens randomly so I can’t reproduce.

        Maybe there needs to be an option to manually refresh, and every time a user navigates back to posts a little non-intrusive popup displays with “Last refresh: X hours ago” for a few seconds.

        • toomuchbeer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Have seen this also - super random so I can’t help you reproduce it, but can back you up on that for sure.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Me too, I still haven’t found a Lemmy UI that does forward swipes. It’s the biggest thing I miss from Apollo. Alien Blue had it too for the oldheads here.

        • CreatureSurvive@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          [email protected] has forward navigation just like Apollo. Arctic is inspired by Apollo, so it should feel just as familiar as Voyager, only it’s a native app. I don’t recall Alien Blue having forward navigation, but it’s been so long I guess that I have forgotten about it.

    • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Apollo did this by letting you swipe on the bottom bar to go back into the thread. It remembered your position until you opened a new thread. It is a great feature

    • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yes, please add this type of navigation.

      I asked for a “back confirmation” in a different comment for the same reason. It’s too easy to accidentally lose your place.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Video from PeerTube and Loops is not embedded. Is it possible to be able to play videos directly in Voyager?

    • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, definitely. I did a POC with Loops and it worked nice. I just need to revisit and make good privacy settings so that user can configure sites to enable auto embed (since Voyager would need to make a passive request to the respective instance while scrolling the feed).

  • Docus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Apart from the known iOS issue requiring the occasional app restart, no bugs and loving the app. Only feature i’d like to see is a display of the instance in the post list. So not just ‘news’, but ‘[email protected]’. Some community names exist on different instances (which I think is not helping new users, but it’s a lemmy problem, not a voyager one)

      • Docus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Could you give me a hint? Gone through the settings but can’t see it. Community icon is an option, but those are too small to be useful (for me anyway)

        • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Gee, I searched for it and couldn’t find. But mine is configured to show instances. It will only not show them if the community is in my home instance.

        • just some guy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I don’t see it either (at least plainly) but I have noticed in my feed that the only comm names displayed without their instance are local. All comms from other instances show their names and their instance. I could’ve sworn there was a setting for this, but I can’t recall or find it now.

    • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Hmm - it should always add the @example.com if its a remote community. Local omits. Could add a setting to always force it on

        • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Ah yes, the compact mode. There could be an option for that in the future, I don’t think there’s a request on github for that yet.

  • Cyanogenmon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The tinkerer in me keeps trying other apps.

    I always come back to voyager. Regardless of the current road map, you’re doing a killer job.

    • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Definitely will be added for peertube/loops, but Youtube would be hard to do so in a privacy preserving way.

      • chrisbrummel@infosec.pubEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Out of curiosity, if someone posts a YouTube link and you auto play the video, what gets shared with YouTube?

  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    One feature I’d like to have is the option (maybe a setting) to recover text when commenting and then pressing as sometimes I reply to a comment and then want to read the original post again.

    Thanks for making this app, it has been the Lemmy app I’ve tried by far

    • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      This for me too. Reddit Is Fun/RIF let users save comment drafts. This was great for going back to check anything in Lemmy beyond the one comment you’re replying to.

  • BartrandDuGuesclin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t say this a lot, but this app doesn’t need much else. Using an app like this feels rare nowadays… It is pretty much perfect in my use case. Keep it working and i’ll be happy forever.

    Will donate soon! Have a good one :)

  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’d love to be able to save message drafts.

    Sometimes I start typing up a reply to a comment, but I want to go back and check the OP, or a previous comment, or the community I’m in, or even the rules of the community I’m in.

    Right now, I can copy my comment and paste it in. But if I find myself wanting to copy text from one of those other places, I’m out of luck (unless I want to turn on clipboard history, which I don’t due to security concerns). I could use a separate app, but that’s annoying.

    Another thing I’d like is a better flow for recovered text. It seems that Voyager saves one draft whenever the app crashes/closes when writing a comment. It asks if I want to save or discard the comment. This is good.

    What I’d like better is that recovering the text actually takes me to where I was writing the comment. Sometimes it’s hard to remember where I was writing the comment, or even if I do remember, it can be hard to find it again.

    Overall, I’m loving the app. These are my only 2 pain points right now.

    • ApollosArrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      This would be a major one for me. I crash a few times a week and have a hard time remembering what community I was even writing in if it’s not one of my go tos.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      +1 for saving drafts. Pretty annoying having to write a message in a different app to be able to reference back to the original message.

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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    2 months ago

    i really like voyager. one thing irks me though, and it’s sort of hard to explain…

    when i press the back button in most applications, the expectation is that i move one level back in a tree structure rooted at the application entry point. in voyager, back is more like stepping through my browser history.

    for example, if i’m viewing a single comment, depending on the way i got there the back button may take me to either a) the thread that comment was in, b) another post that links to the comment, c) a profile, d) something else, probably.

    now, this is not necessarily wrong, but it clashes with how i use apps. whenever i want to “reset” an application without closing it, i usually press back until i’m at the aforementioned root of the tree. with voyager, this is difficult to gauge because depending on how long i’ve been usinc it, the back button may go to comment > thread > community feed > community selector > feed > comment > selector > profile > comment > thread > post > feed > exit.

    i don’t really know how i would fix this behaviour either, just that it feels off compared to other apps.

    • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Yeah… I’ll have to revisit at some point and check if there is a better way to do this with Ionic

  • ChilledPeppers@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Hey, i would like to be able tp see users pronoums and ‘usernames’ (i.e. their readable name, and not their tag). Great app!

  • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    No matter how much I try to convince Android not to, it insists on killing Voyager sometimes when I switch to another app. This happens a lot when I’m trying to find a link to post in a reply, but also basically at random any time I switch to another app and back.

    Voyager loses all state and just dumps me in my start page again. This is not fun if I’m replying, to say the least.

    Contrariwise, Tusky (Mastodon app) drops me in exactly where I left off.