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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Hi!
Let me please add to the thanks and kudos for all your efforts developing a truly excellent app!
Two additions I didn’t see elsewhere (my apologies if they were already mentioned or are otherwise off base):
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bug fix: occasionally I’ll be scrolling and the app will “refresh”, kicking me back to the community selection pane/start of my feed
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new features: the ability to view the relevant portion of the mod log by clicking on a comment that has been moderated (e.g., deleted)
Thanks again!
For 1, I did some feasibility work on this, shouldn’t be that bad but there is a safari bug I have to work around. I could implement android only though for now.
Better mod tools are planned
Amazing! Thank you so much for your consideration and reply!!
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I have an issue with voyager where if I am on an image centric community, and start scrolling, voyager would sometimes scroll down and zoom through pages of content.
If I scroll down slowly it never happens but it mostly happens if I kinetic scroll.
As for feature, I would love to have the option of customising the theme further. The dark black theme is my favourite, but would love to change some aspects to make more legible. For example, I prefer to have gray font on black background as it’s easier on the eyes.
Fast way to open post in normal webkit (in iOS App) view, as fallback if a post has somehow issues.
You mean, as linked in post or comments? One thing that might work is long press.
I would see it in the three dots in the top right of a post, since I see it more in the debug level of feature.
Ah or if you talking within feed, as option in the menu appearing on haptic/long touch would be awesome, yes
Are you on iOS? The next release will have an “open in Safari” option from share sheet of posts/comments.
The ability to do sidebar editing would be lit!
Keep up with the great work!
Thanks! This should be doable. I think there’s an issue for it on github, not sure though
This is my main lemmy app.
The one mildly annoying thing that might be a user error on my point is that if I swipe into the community selector menu, I’m stuck. I haven’t figured out how to get back to where I was.
I exchanged messages with a new user who also found that to be an issue not too long ago.
Do you mean, can’t find your place in the post feed?
One thing I recommend for users that scroll really far in the feed is to use post hiding (with the hide button enabled in the feed - or auto hide). That way you won’t lose your place, even if the app restarts. Of course you can reset hidden posts too.
No. If I scroll all the way to the left so that I get to the page where I can select from my subscribed communities, all, local etc. by mistake. Then I cannot get back to what ever feed I swiped away from. If I try to swipe right again I end up unsubscribeing to some unlucky community.
Also, it would be nice to get an undo option in the notification toast you get for unsubscribeing to a community if possible. I just lost one without noticing which one while recreating my issue for this reply.
I am on iOS on an iPhone 13 if that helps 🙂
This!
The one bug that’s always super annoyed me: clicking on a photo in my feed and when I swipe out it takes me to the “communities” tab where you choose Home/Local/All and it completely loses my place in my feed
I haven’t seen that before - if you get a good way to consistently reproduce please lmk. Android I assume
Indeed.
The one major thing I’ve been wanting since day 1 is the ability to peruse the mod log of others without having to jump through hoops. If I’m modding a community and want to see what has been said/done elsewhere to see if it’s a one off or pattern, I have to dig for it.
From a user standpoint, it’d be great to have the ability to see the removed/edited history of a comment inline. I realize this is likely a limitation based on app store rules, but even just having this option on the web only would be nice.
Yes, I’d say there is a pretty good chance of better mod features this year. It will probably be a gated/buried setting to enable.
I mostly use it on an iPad mini in landscape mode, when lying down and casually reading. Two things:
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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.
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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.
Hey there! Thanks for the suggestions. Are you on the beta build? I deployed a potential fix for #2, curious if it works for you.
Am not. Happy to jump on it if you can point me at instructions.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/nWLw1MBM otherwise you can wait a few days for a release
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The profile tab for changing accounts is dependent on the logged in account loading. I’d prefer if I can change accounts faster and independent from the account’s instance loading speed.
Edit: Checking now, I’m not sure if it still persists, kinda hard to simulate for me.
The Inbox tab can be a bit fiddly about returning to the Inbox at times; it would be nice if the first touch switches to the Inbox tab as usual, but a secound touch definitely returns to the main Inbox page, regardless of previous position.
Big thanks for the app.
Perhaps some work on a sidebar for navigation for tablets or desktop?
I know Apollo never had that, but when I’m on my iPad I tend to use Arctic simply because it uses the real estate better. But I use Voyager on my phone.
That’s in the plans, nothing is blocking this other than my limited time haha
Wow Voyager is such a tribute to Apollo that we even have a “one day I promise” tablet layout that has yet to appear.
This would make it feel better in desktop browsers too.
True! I just use lemmy-ui or alexandrite or photon on desktop rn, which are great.
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
I’d like to see number of new comments since the last time I opened the post.
- 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!
Would love to be able to link to the comment that made me tag, too.
That should already be there - in the header of the edit tag dialog for the user, tap the comment button. LMK if it isn’t working.
searchable modlog instead of just myself
This is in the plans, just need to do it in a way that is apple/google store compliant
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.
There is an issue for forward on github. Otherwise, for the post feed, hiding posts can be a good alternative if you scroll long distances.
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.
If you have an example of something that doesn’t work in Voyager but does work in other clients, please let me know. I’m not aware of anything at the moment.
db0 added some flairs, which are apparently natively supported by lemmy, which is cool.
Neat - although it is not a native lemmy thing afaik.
The flair icons are just lemmy custom emoji. This is native and they should be displayed as a normal emoji size. this is already handled correctly in lemmy ui and tesseract, but voyager displays them at their full size instead of resizing them to 48x48 or 24x24,which can dominate the comments
Reading these flair from threativore and displaying them in the ui proper (i.e. Outside of a comment) is not native and I’m still looking for ui dev buy in 😅
they should be displayed as a normal emoji size
OH yeah, I did make a tweak to that recently so emojis are smaller.
btw, I noticed that they are small on db0 instance but don’t look right on remote instances - e.g. https://vger.social/post/11849459
I think this is because the markdown needs the “emoji blah” class name - e.g.
(notice the “emoji facepalm” - prefix by word “emoji” make it small on remote instances I think)
Yes I know the markdown text denotes them as emoji, but lemmy by default doesn’t add “emoji” to all its custom emoji. Just the emoji shortname. I think the solution tesseract has is to display them at emoji size of they have “emoji” in that text, , or if it matches one of the custom emoji shortdodes. But I’m guessing the later in not possible in remote instances. Hmm, I can adjust my scripts to always add “emoji” there as well, but by default the lemmy ui doesn’t add it.
Edit Actually nevermind it seems it’s just tesseract not adding it. I’ll open and bug report for them
Mystery solved!
That should already be there - in the header of the edit tag dialog for the user, tap the comment button. LMK if it isn’t working.
I think I’m missing something… I’m on 2.32.2, I don’t see a comment button
If you have an example of something that doesn’t work in Voyager but does work in other clients, please let me know. I’m not aware of anything at the moment.
I can’t remember what it was, I’ll have to check when I see it, don’t remember the URL unfortunately.
Edit: Just came across one with files.catbox.moe from this post
You should see this:
but it only works if you tag from the comment itself. So you need to long press username (on the comment), edit, write tag.
Ahah! Thanks I’ll give that a try
I’d like to be able to see profile information, or at minimum a link on the profile page to open in a browser. There’s also a bug with the image viewer where it seems to zoom with only one finger and gets pretty broken.
