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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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[–] Pilon23@feddit.dk 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Lately I've been getting more issues with images failing to load. Virtually every image from feddit.org had issue some days, but today I see random posts from mander.xyz and lemmy.world too. I tested it on another app and they load there. I can also open the lost in a browser to see the image.

Other than that the app is really nice, although I hate accidentally backspacing one time too many and restarting my scrolling from the very top of "all" πŸ˜„

[–] aeharding@vger.social 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Did you test another app with exact same instance and login?

[–] Pilon23@feddit.dk 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, here's a screenshot using the sync app and another using voyager. Both signed in to pilon23@feddit.dk. I noticed it happening to a load of feddit.org posts, and now I notice this was also a crosspost to master.xyz from there

[–] aeharding@vger.social 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That image is loading fine for me on feddit.dk with Voyager. So I'm not sure what could be causing the issue you're seeing. Are you on the latest version of voyager.

[–] Pilon23@feddit.dk 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah I'm on 2.23.2. I also see that feddit.org doesn't even show up when searching for it in the communities. I'll try with a different account on voyager tomorrow to see if it's my app or maybe related to my account

[–] acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’d love to see a floating action button like Thunder has with configurable shortcuts. I love this feature for quick navigation, dismiss all read (not fully hide since a refresh can bring those posts back), etc.

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow so many replies with suggestions. Seems like I'm in the minority of people who thinks the app is pretty functional as is and does everything that I expect.

The best way i can put it is that during wefwef days and the early voyager days, I would look out for every update as functionality and polish was getting added. Nowadays, I dont actively look out for updates because the app is already soo polished and functional. I still like the QoL features that are getting added and appreciate them but the app is and will remain great even if development stops today.

Also @aeharding@vger.social, take breaks and relax - Voyager is great as is

[–] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 8 hours ago

Thanks friend!

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 104 points 3 days ago (10 children)

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.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would like to see this too, just some roadblocks that need to be cleared - https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/91

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[–] toomuchbeer@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Vaeril@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

If I accidentally swipe open the communities when browsing my feed, I should be able to swipe out of it back to my feed. Another option would be to have an option to disable swipe to open communities picker.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 8 hours ago

You're welcome!

[–] Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 62 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 59 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Video from PeerTube and Loops is not embedded. Is it possible to be able to play videos directly in Voyager?

[–] aeharding@vger.social 17 points 3 days ago

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).

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'd love to be able to save message drafts.

Sometimes I start typing up a reply to a comment, but I want to go back and check the OP, or a previous comment, or the community I'm in, or even the rules of the community I'm in.

Right now, I can copy my comment and paste it in. But if I find myself wanting to copy text from one of those other places, I'm out of luck (unless I want to turn on clipboard history, which I don't due to security concerns). I could use a separate app, but that's annoying.

Another thing I'd like is a better flow for recovered text. It seems that Voyager saves one draft whenever the app crashes/closes when writing a comment. It asks if I want to save or discard the comment. This is good.

What I'd like better is that recovering the text actually takes me to where I was writing the comment. Sometimes it's hard to remember where I was writing the comment, or even if I do remember, it can be hard to find it again.

Overall, I'm loving the app. These are my only 2 pain points right now.

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[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Previous Apollo user, this is where it’s at. Without Apollo support I dropped Reddit. Without Voyager I would most probably not be on Lemmy.

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[–] chrisbrummel@infosec.pub 39 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I’d love Apollo-level inline video playing.

Keep up the great work!

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[–] hydration9806@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

First off, thanks for making a fantastic app! Just a couple of niche requests:

  1. (Likely incredibly difficult to implement) When reposting have a way of detecting that the post in question has been reposted to that community already.
  2. A hopefully simpler request, NSFW images should stay blurred even when navigating to the comments. Often people like to check the comments before unblurring to avoid any unsightly images. I believe this is done by several other apps already.

Again though, great work! Been a very nice experience so far!

[–] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

1 - good idea, I'll have to check the lemmy api.

2- that makes sense, I don't think that's on github yet.

[–] hydration9806@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Thanks! Oh one last thing that jumped to mind! The ability to make custom feeds alongside Home. So one could add certain communities to a certain feed to only see posts from those communities.

[–] Venicon@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just dropping in to say brilliant app mate! It fills the Apollo shaped void in my wee geeky soul. Can’t think of anything to make it better as it already does everything I want.

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[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Please add some well placed "back" confirmations. For example, when browsing All please ask for a confirmation when hitting back before returning to Home.

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[–] wisely@feddit.org 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 8 hours ago

Double tap doesn't work? ios or android?

[–] somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 :)

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[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Searching in the settings would be great

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