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?

💜

  • Cyanogenmon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 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.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    2·
    5 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.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        5 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
          01·
          5 months ago

          !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.

  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago
    • Tags are working great! Would love to be able to link to the comment that made me tag, too.
    • Would be nice to have the searchable modlog instead of just myself
    • If I’m in a thread and accidentally hit back, I have to go back through the list to find that post again. A “last post” or something in the menu would be handy.
    • A bunch of gifs/videos don’t show/play, but it works in other clients, instead I have to open in a browser. That would be a nice one to hit.
    • db0 added some flairs, which are apparently natively supported by lemmy, which is cool. They are gigantic in voyager (in comment threads when its posted standalone). Compare to the thread here. Would be great if this was supported to display next to the users in app too.

    Definitely the one app I keep coming back too though, great work!

  • Pilon23@feddit.dkEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    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” 😄

  • fubarx@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 months 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.

  • ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I’m coming back to add another request idea:

    Ability to search Saved posts.

    I save a lot of useful things on Lemmy but it’s difficult to find again later. You can’t search Saved Posts in this app nor on the website and you can’t set up an RSS feed like on Reddit to get the articles/posts out to somewhere else.

    Even if you know the precise title of the post, general search on Lemmy almost never brings it up in the results.

    I think Voyager could certainly help compensate for this shortcoming in Lemmy.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

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

  • ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    One of favourite apps!

    Two requests:

    1. Ability to open shared Lemmy URLs in Voyager, via share sheet to the app, iMessage extension maybe too, and clipboard recognition once in the app although this might have privacy issues I suppose. My family sends a lot of Lemmy links via iMessage and it’s annoying having to load the page, tap the image, close the tab after and return to iMessage to comment. I remember Apollo having something better with this.
    2. Block community on a post from an All, Local or Home feed. Right now you have to tap into the sub/community and then tap ellipses to get the block function.

    Another thing is better search but I believe Voyager might be doing the best that it can right now compensating for the terrible search in Lemmy. And that terrible search might also be a byproduct of the federated instances (sync time, different restrictions, etc) which I guess is an acceptable trade-off for now if so.