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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I’d love it if deleted posts included a link to the mod log to easily see if it was a case of moderator power tripping or just some asshole commenter.
More mod tools are planned!
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?
This is on iOS. Double tapping collapses or opens the entire comment field.
Currently to copy an actual word I need to hold down on the comment field, a menu pops up where I can select “Select text”, where I can then go in and select a word to use for translation.
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.
I try to use Voyager every few months, but keep going back to Sync because:
- I want more control over the appearance of my feed, comments, and replies. For the feed, Sync provides:
- The Back stack on Android seems weird. I don’t use a lot of apps with bottom nav bars, but I think they should maintain an entry in the back stack for each category. Voyager seems to keep every instance that I’ve visited as a separate entry.
A lot of people like Voyager, so you’re clearly doing a great job. Keep it up!
Swipe anywhere to go back would be a nice added feature.
That’s on Github!
i have a privacy/security feature request:
lock screen prompt when trying to switch profiles.
currently all it takes to switch is two clicks, no identity verification.
so if you have a regular and a NSFW (or otherwise private) profile, and you give someone your phone to look at a post, it’s easy to switch to a profile that should be gated behind a verification screen…
infinity has this feature, and it’s really nice for peace of mind!
otherwise voyager has been excellent all around! thanks for putting the work in!
Cool idea!
Why does android not have filtering when iPhone does?
Android has the same filtering. What are you seeing?
This guy doesn’t have it on the main page whereas I on IOS do.
It looks like they are logged out
Thanks for all the work.
You’re welcome!
A couple of things irk me (on iOS):
- Shaking the phone if I’ve opened a text editor brings up the “undo typing” dialog, even if I’m on the main feed or in a comments section
- sometimes, the app freezes and restarts (almost like an out of memory) and I think it’s related to sometimes when I swipe away from a video or browser view, I can still hear audio from a media player for a second. Are views being left open on the background for a long time, possibly indefinitely?
Other than that, great app! Loving as an Apollo replacement.
Yeah that shake thing is really annoying.
There is a small memory leak, but not specific to videos. I believe the Stencil team already has a partial fix (TBD rollout)
I’d suggest the following major things:
- Commenters in threads to be colored by their first comment in that tree (if they first commented in red their username will be red the entire tree, that way it’s easier on the eyes to distinguish who’s talking), idea taken from a Reddit client I used to use ages ago
- I really don’t like it when I’m on
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and by mistake click on Android’s Back button, it just moves me back to the community selection screen and doesn’t let me get back to where I was in the timeline - Highlighted search in the comment section of a post
- I’d love the ability to copy the URL to the attached content directly from the post
Also, I feel like clicking on a post frequently sends me to the attached content instead of into the post itself, maybe the post structure can be improved somehow?
Thank you so much for this awesome app and being so open to feedback
Point 2 and your also
Those are my big two.
The only bug I’ve run into is that I can’t download videos. I’ll hit “download video” and then it just does nothing. No prompts and I can’t find any videos saved anywhere from it.
Otherwise I think Voyager has been the premiere experience for Lemmy 👌
I’ve had the same issue on Android (app version 2.23.2). Haven’t tried it in a while, but would appreciate this being handled.
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 💪💪
Cheers!!
I used Voyager for a while and here are the issues i noticed before I switched to another app (which also has issues):
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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).
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.
Boost does that.
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.
Back and forward navigation is the thing I miss the most.
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
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
This is a great feature. I miss it from Sync.
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.
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.
[email protected] 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.
The one feature I’m missing from Apollo. App is great otherwise.