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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One thing that would be great, if possible, would be the option to choose what browser opens links. Right now it’s either in app or the default phone app. I’d love to just send articles to firefox focus to prevent all the ad pop up take overs.
Show edited usernames and hexbears (and other instances that use the feature) pronouns next to usernames
My edited username for example doesn’t show she/her
very satisfied with it the way it is! thank you for everything ❤️
I would very much like to be able to use emojis from various servers. E.g. blahaj has some trans emojis that’d I’d like to be able to use even on Lemmy.ml
Also remembering the selection for “sharing as image” to hide username/community would be nice
Lately I’ve been getting more issues with images failing to load. Virtually every image from feddit.org had issue some days, but today I see random posts from mander.xyz and lemmy.world too. I tested it on another app and they load there. I can also open the lost in a browser to see the image.
Other than that the app is really nice, although I hate accidentally backspacing one time too many and restarting my scrolling from the very top of “all” 😄
Did you test another app with exact same instance and login?
Yeah, here’s a screenshot using the sync app and another using voyager. Both signed in to pilon23@feddit.dk. I noticed it happening to a load of feddit.org posts, and now I notice this was also a crosspost to master.xyz from there
That image is loading fine for me on feddit.dk with Voyager. So I’m not sure what could be causing the issue you’re seeing. Are you on the latest version of voyager.
Yeah I’m on 2.23.2. I also see that feddit.org doesn’t even show up when searching for it in the communities. I’ll try with a different account on voyager tomorrow to see if it’s my app or maybe related to my account
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.
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.
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.
Have seen this also - super random so I can’t help you reproduce it, but can back you up on that for sure.
I would like to see this too, just some roadblocks that need to be cleared - https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/91
It doesn’t need this to be implemented if its done via swiping on the bottom bar like it worked in apollo
Yeah same. Apollo had back and forward navigation and I miss that a lot.
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.
!arctic@lemmy.world 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.
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
Back and forward navigation is the thing I miss the most.
This is a great feature. I miss it from Sync.
The one feature I’m missing from Apollo. App is great otherwise.
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.
Boost does that.
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.
Thanks!!
Agreed, Voyager rules. Kudos.
Video from PeerTube and Loops is not embedded. Is it possible to be able to play videos directly in Voyager?
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).
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.
+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.
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.
I’d love Apollo-level inline video playing.
Keep up the great work!
Definitely will be added for peertube/loops, but Youtube would be hard to do so in a privacy preserving way.
Out of curiosity, if someone posts a YouTube link and you auto play the video, what gets shared with YouTube?
In order to do it with youtube I would need to let Youtube run its own embed code, so who knows :P
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.
Hey thanks! 💜
Previous Apollo user, this is where it’s at. Without Apollo support I dropped Reddit. Without Voyager I would most probably not be on Lemmy.
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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 ‘news@lemmy.world’. 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)
That’s an option, it’s already there. The future is now!
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)
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.
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.
yes that iOS bug is annoying.
Hmm - it should always add the
@example.comif its a remote community. Local omits. Could add a setting to always force it onIt does with ‘show community at top’ turned on. But that makes it harder to click on the title to see the post. With that option turned off, it show the community at the bottom but without instance info
Screenshot, on iPhone. No instance info on any communityAh 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.
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
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.
