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.
Thanks for all the work.
- 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.
The tags/votes not backing up is a bug, I’ll fix that asap!
I would like tags I’ve made for users to allow a dropdown to select ones I’ve previously made. For example, I’ve tagged numerous people as Zionists or Tankies, and would like to be able to quickly select that tag for new users to the list, instead of having to type it out and select the color.
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):
- ability to search the comments of a post you’re viewing (like “find in page” on a web browser)
- ability to view the relevant portion of the mod log by clicking on a comment that has been moderated (e.g., deleted)
Thanks again!
Swipe anywhere to go back would be a nice added feature.
First off, thanks for making a fantastic app! Just a couple of niche requests:
- (Likely incredibly difficult to implement) When reposting have a way of detecting that the post in question has been reposted to that community already.
- 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!
I just want to chime in and thank you for putting together this awesome app. I use the iOS app not than anything else on my phone, and I probably use v.programming.dev more than any other website on my Linux PC.
Do you receive enough to make a living improving voyager?
I don’t know if it’s my phone or my fingers, but I constantly have issues with hitting the *3dot menu when I try to hit the vote buttons.
Oh, and inconsistent back behavior. When opening images, sometimes swiping for back closes the image and returns me to the post list, and sometimes it backs me out of the post list and I can’t get back to the listing I had been looking through without reloading.
Are you on Android?
The one bug that’s always super annoyed me: clicking on a photo in my feed and when I swipe out it takes me to the “communities” tab where you choose Home/Local/All and it completely loses my place in my feed
I haven’t seen that before - if you get a good way to consistently reproduce please lmk. Android I assume
Indeed.
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.
One of favourite apps!
Two requests:
- Ability to open shared Lemmy URLs in Voyager, via share sheet to the app, iMessage extension maybe too, and clipboard recognition once in the app although this might have privacy issues I suppose. My family sends a lot of Lemmy links via iMessage and it’s annoying having to load the page, tap the image, close the tab after and return to iMessage to comment. I remember Apollo having something better with this.
- Block community on a post from an All, Local or Home feed. Right now you have to tap into the sub/community and then tap ellipses to get the block function.
Another thing is better search but I believe Voyager might be doing the best that it can right now compensating for the terrible search in Lemmy. And that terrible search might also be a byproduct of the federated instances (sync time, different restrictions, etc) which I guess is an acceptable trade-off for now if so.
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.
The one feature I’m missing from Apollo. App is great otherwise.
Boost does that.
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.
Back and forward navigation is the thing I miss the most.
This is a great feature. I miss it from Sync.
I would like to see this too, just some roadblocks that need to be cleared - https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/91
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
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.
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.
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 👌