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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Show my alias (This is fine 🔥🐶☕🔥) instead of username (TheBat).
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.
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!
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.
I wish there was an option to move the up and downvote arrows to the left side. So I can scroll and upvote with one hand as a left-handed person.
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 :)
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
all
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.
I have a simple one.
When you search for a community, then start browsing one and go back to the search the text is gone. This requires you to retype the query for each community you visit.
It would be cool if the query was saved.
Thanks for all your hard work :)
To add to this, just having a search history would be awesome. There’s a bunch of times that I’ve stumbled across neat things, neglect to save them off, and then forget the keyword that got me there.
Bonus points for true deleta-ability (for anonymity/security)
Please add some well placed “back” confirmations. For example, when browsing All please ask for a confirmation when hitting back before returning to Home.
And/or remember where we were in the scroll list for all/home (That seems like it’d be hard to implement - even original Apollo had this flaw - so the way DJKJuicy put it is probably the play)
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.
This is frankly not a huge issue, but in the iOS app, sometimes pulling down to refresh doesn’t remove read posts. I also have the setting that shows the button to remove seen posts. Tapping on it doesn’t seem to do anything. When this happens, I just close the app entirely and try again.
This is literally the only problem I have with Voyager. The app is otherwise perfect. Thanks for the incredible work!
I came here to comment that a „hide seen posts“ button would be awesome as I can’t find it in the settings. Can you point me in the right direction?
General -> Posts -> Mark Read/ Hiding posts
Thanks a lot 😁
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.
Would it be possible to implement translations of posts and the ability to download videos like Apollo did?
Am I just blind, or is there no way to search the comments?
Edit: i’m on iOS version 17.7.1 on the actual application not the Web app
push notifications and widgets