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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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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Show my alias (This is fine πŸ”₯πŸΆβ˜•πŸ”₯) instead of username (TheBat).

[–] Princeofspace@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months 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.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 7 months ago

That would be neat! I don't have any plans for that, but also I would be open to PRs, like the Apple Watch app

[–] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I would love the ability to add in my own images to a link post as the post's thumbnail✨

When I make Youtube posts I use Invidious and sometimes the native thumbnail will load but most often times not. As such I often have to add in the thumbnail into the text details of the post.

Either way thank you and your contributors for the hard work to make Voyager great!πŸ₯³

[–] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That sounds annoying that the thumbnail won't load. Is there a lemmy bug for it?

[–] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Not sure tbh

Checking just now I found a closed old bug on Lemmy's issue pages.

I also know that Invidious has been having issues as Youtube's also changing their system which also caused outages with Youtube frontend alternatives like Newpipe.

So it's hard to say where the problem's stemming from.


I originally asked for this feature because of the Invidious problem but I do also think it'd be nice to have in general as users like myself could upload our own images instead of having to rely on external services

[–] horse@feddit.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I can't scroll voyager when using iPhone mirroring with iOS 18/macOS 15. I haven't been able to pin down what causes it to occur though unfortunately.

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[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Apologies. I know I posted a previous comment but wanted to add another request.

Would it be possible to add an option that hides the top and bottom bars while scrolling?

Apart from that, great app.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

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!

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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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