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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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[–] 9bananas@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Hi!

Let me please add to the thanks and kudos for all your efforts developing a truly excellent app!

Two new features I didn’t see elsewhere (my apologies if they were already mentioned or are otherwise off base):

  1. ability to search the comments of a post you’re viewing (like “find in page” on a web browser)
  2. ability to view the relevant portion of the mod log by clicking on a comment that has been moderated (e.g., deleted)

Thanks again!

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] We1chy@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Swipe anywhere to go back would be a nice added feature.

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[–] moe90@feddit.nl 4 points 3 days ago

push notifications and widgets

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would like to see mod logs for other users because I think that would be funny

[–] aeharding@vger.social 4 points 3 days ago

That is in the plans, just need to do it in an app store compliant way

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

As far as features go, I'd love for loops to get embedded!

I've noticed a couple fairly annoying and related bugs involving images on android (pixel 5a, f-droid release), but I haven't checked yet to see if it's been reported. When I select an image and then dismiss it with a swipe gesture, rarely I'll be taken to the communities menu and have my feed refresh and return to the top. Even more rarely, it will send me to my profile, then returns me to the communities menu, before returning to the spot I was in. It's entirely unpredictable from my testing, so attempts to record have been fruitless for me. Most often though, it occurs if I've scrolled through the feed for an extended period of time. It doesn't occur when selecting text threads or viewing comments though

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The big feature I would like to see. As if when you block somebody it doesn’t block the entire thread.

It should only block that one individual.

So for example, if I respond to somebody will call that person Jon. And then John responds to me and I’m thinking yeah this guy‘s getting blocked. Itnot only deletes out John‘s comments. It’ll delete mine too. But let’s say somebody responded to one of my messages in that thread, Well their stuff is gone too. I don’t know if this is an issue with Lenny . world or if this is an issue with this app or what the problem is, but it’s a bit of a problem.

If I block somebody who is an active user in In the groups that I’m involved in, I pretty much don’t see anything in there anymore because of how the blocking feature works

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[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't see my issue in the comments, hopefully this isn't a duplicate. I'm on iOS, 18.3, this problem has been ongoing for a while tho. When I open a linked page, it opens correctly but then after a short time, perhaps a second or two, the in-app browser locks up. I can open in safari and that works fine.

Aside from that, Apollo refugee here. 👋

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

That's really weird. Do you have Testflight? If so could you check when it started happening?

Does it reproduce consistently or just certain links?

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

I am not on the TestFlight version. I deleted the app and reinstalled it, it seems to be fixed, so chalk it up to a bit of weirdness. It was fairly consistent, could also have been iOS as I am on the public beta branch there and with the 18.3 release I'm not on beta at the moment since there isn't one.

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated!

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[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 5 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] TacoEvent@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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!

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[–] ActuallyGoingCrazy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 👌

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[–] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
  • It'd be great if user tags and vote totals were included in settings export/import. Losing those would mean dropping Lemmy entirely at this point since I prefer to tag rather than block most problem users. Tag import is also critical if we want to write a script to import user tags from other apps like Sync or Boost (since it'd just be converting one JSON schema to another).
  • It's a longshot since I'm guessing it'd be incredibly heavy on API calls, but a way to import vote totals from Lemmy's up/downvote history. Voyager's vote tracking is the killer feature that had me drop Boost, but it was weird for the first week or so seeing people I knew I upvote all the time at only +1-3. We can manually set vote totals ourselves so someone could write a script to do most of the work outside of the app (especially if #1 is added), but a native way would be far more convenient.
  • An option for long pressing the post thumbnail to show an enlarged preview of said thumbnail. Sync has this, if you needed an example of what I'm thinking of.
  • An option to change what clicking on the OP or community in post view does. It's an incredibly minor annoyance, but sometimes on Android I accidentally tap one of them when attempting to open the post.
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[–] deipfei@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Love this app honestly. I have two issues that have led me trying other apps, though I ultimately come back.

First, I don’t know how to describe it, but trying to press and hold an image to save it, for example, seems sluggish and non-responsive. Sometimes it ignores my press entirely, sometimes it waits a while then just “zooms” the image a bit, and it often takes me 3-4 tries of trying to open the context menu for it to take.

Second, sometimes when I try to swipe back from a post to the feed, it gets “stuck” halfway and requires a restart because the post is still “open” and any touch input just shifts the post left or right, but won’t actually return me to the list.

Otherwise, it’s a great app, and no other suits me nearly as well, so cheers to that!

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

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 :)

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

Hey, i would like to be able tp see users pronoums and 'usernames' (i.e. their readable name, and not their tag). Great app!

[–] aeharding@vger.social 4 points 3 days ago

There is an issue for that here to follow along - https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/1621

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

[–] 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 :)

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 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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