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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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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh and there's been an open issue regarding showing user profile pictures on their page, it would be awesome to have!

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/457#issuecomment-2609576595

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[–] pureness@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

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 :)

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

First off, you’ve made a great app. Makes me not miss Apollo one bit. Best Lemmy app out there, period.

And I’m on Lemmy because I don’t wanna be on Reddit anymore. Or on X, YouTube, instagram, fashbook - all the exploitative, controlled-media, oligarch-run platforms.

I’d love if Voyager became an ever better tool for that. Give me the option to flag, block or filter out any reference to those platforms. And better yet, automatically propose / replace any posted link to those platforms with a fediverse alternative whenever possible.

Also, I’d love to get automatic context with any given link. I would love to know whether a site is reliable, what country it’s from, who finances it, what political preference it has, if it’s billionaire-owned, etc. All inline with the link itself. There’s online sources for a lot of that info - integrate them into voyager!

This age demands smart tools that make us more informed of what’s going on behind the deluge of info. Voyager could help do that.

Thanks!

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Built-in automatic handling of URLs to translate them into arbitrary ones would be a neat utility feature.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

I find myself really often accidentally collapsing comment threads while scrolling, or accidentally selecting posts I didn't mean to when scrolling. Not sure if that's fixable at all or just because I have a new phone I'm not used to yet. Just throwing it out there in case more people have this issue

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why does android not have filtering when iPhone does?

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[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fast way to open post in normal webkit (in iOS App) view, as fallback if a post has somehow issues.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You mean, as linked in post or comments? One thing that might work is long press.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Show my alias (This is fine 🔥🐶☕🔥) instead of username (TheBat).

[–] Princeofspace@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

I used Voyager for a while and here are the issues i noticed before I switched to another app (which also has issues):

  1. Gestures for actions tend to take big motions, bigger than is comfortable to me, and the difference between actions is small. Like, I need to swipe very far (and not too fast), and then within a few millimeters, it goes from upvote to downvote. In the end i was just wishing for buttons considering how much work was to reply or downvote.
  2. The combo of auto-marking posts as read when scrolling and hiding read posts doesn't work too well. I frequently refresh my feed to only see stuff I've already seen and the posts stick around until I manually click then, go back and refresh. When I drag down at the top of my feed to refresh, I want to see posts I haven't seen before. Refreshing 2-3 times and seeing nothing new...i don't think anyone expects that from a social media app. Nearly all Lemmy apps seem to have trouble with this behaviour.
  3. I don't think it's a great idea to make "click = comment and thread disappears" the default. I often did it by accident and was very disorienting.
  4. I would often accidentally swipe/touch something, not realize what, and end up at my feed, the post I was looking at entirely gone, and no easy way to go back. To this day I'm not sure how I did that, but each time it a bummer to give up the post I was reading.
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