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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Love the app!
Going beyond Apollo, have you ever thought of adapting Voyager to work on Apple TV? Not sure how many this would interest but there’s a lack of Lemmy tv clients.
I used a separate app that would notify me about Reddit posts in selected subreddits if they hit a upvoted or comment threshold. Could be a separate app or built into Voyager. Also helps you keep up with smaller communities if they get drowned out in the main feed.
Would it be possible to make it easier to copy a single word? Right now there are multiple steps where I need to hold it down, then click select text, then try to highlight a word if I want to get a translation of a word for example.
It would be nice if I could just directly highlight a word with a tap or translate without the multiple steps. Thanks for the app.
Double tap doesn’t work? ios or android?
Two features I’d love to see are an option from the posts view for “Scroll to top”, also while in a comments section the ability to “find/search” the various comments. Thanks so much :)
Wood be nice to have a gif integration in comments where you can search and post gifs straight from the app. Prob no gif providers that are privacy focused though.
Searching in the settings would be great
Yeah, settings is getting a bit much
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.
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.
Yeah… I’ll have to revisit at some point and check if there is a better way to do this with Ionic
Honestly, i just love voyager as it is. I’m still on reddit, but use voyager/lemmy like 4x more by now. So i’m sure there will be great improvement ideas here, I’m here just to thank you 💪💪
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.
Agreed, Voyager rules. Kudos.
Thanks!!
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.
As far as features go, I’d love for loops to get embedded!
I’ve noticed a couple fairly annoying and related bugs involving images on android (pixel 5a, f-droid release), but I haven’t checked yet to see if it’s been reported. When I select an image and then dismiss it with a swipe gesture, rarely I’ll be taken to the communities menu and have my feed refresh and return to the top. Even more rarely, it will send me to my profile, then returns me to the communities menu, before returning to the spot I was in. It’s entirely unpredictable from my testing, so attempts to record have been fruitless for me. Most often though, it occurs if I’ve scrolled through the feed for an extended period of time. It doesn’t occur when selecting text threads or viewing comments though
This is a bit of a big ask and maybe something that needs to be done in lemmy core, but I’d love it if posts of the same image/link posted around the same time were consolidated into one item in the feed.
Search bar for settings. So I can tour a word in the settings page and quickly get to the relevant setting.
I still want a way to go from the subscribed community list to where I was in the posts. If I’m in an article in a post and hit back once extra time by accident then I’m screwed and the entire post list refreshes.
Yes. It is too easy to lose your place by accidentally hitting back twice, then everything refreshes.
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 :)