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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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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 104 points 4 days ago (9 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.

[–] toomuchbeer@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (1 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.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] aeharding@vger.social 16 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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[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah same. Apollo had back and forward navigation and I miss that a lot.

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[–] Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 64 points 4 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.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 13 points 3 days ago
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Agreed, Voyager rules. Kudos.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 60 points 4 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).

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 42 points 4 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.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

+1 for saving drafts. Pretty annoying having to write a message in a different app to be able to reference back to the original message.

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[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 29 points 4 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.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 11 points 3 days ago
[–] chrisbrummel@infosec.pub 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’d love Apollo-level inline video playing.

Keep up the great work!

[–] aeharding@vger.social 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Definitely will be added for peertube/loops, but Youtube would be hard to do so in a privacy preserving way.

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[–] acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] Venicon@lemmy.world 38 points 4 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.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 9 points 3 days ago

Hey thanks! πŸ’œ

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Thanks for all the work.

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 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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[–] Vaeril@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days 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.

[–] hydration9806@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

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!

[–] 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 15 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Searching in the settings would be great

[–] aeharding@vger.social 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah, settings is getting a bit much

[–] Docus@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

Apart from the known iOS issue requiring the occasional app restart, no bugs and loving the app. Only feature i’d like to see is a display of the instance in the post list. So not just β€˜news’, but β€˜news@lemmy.world’. Some community names exist on different instances (which I think is not helping new users, but it’s a lemmy problem, not a voyager one)

yes that iOS bug is annoying.

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[–] 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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[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One feature I’d like to have is the option (maybe a setting) to recover text when commenting and then pressing as sometimes I reply to a comment and then want to read the original post again.

Thanks for making this app, it has been the Lemmy app I’ve tried by far

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[–] lewdian69@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I still want a way to go from the subscribed community list to where I was in the posts. If I'm in an article in a post and hit back once extra time by accident then I'm screwed and the entire post list refreshes.

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[–] virku@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (5 children)

This is my main lemmy app.

The one mildly annoying thing that might be a user error on my point is that if I swipe into the community selector menu, I'm stuck. I haven't figured out how to get back to where I was.

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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

I'd like to see number of new comments since the last time I opened the post.

[–] ex_06@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Do you receive enough to make a living improving voyager?

[–] aeharding@vger.social 2 points 2 days ago

Not even close πŸ˜… I did apply for NLNet at one point but didn’t make the cut, probably because I’m not in the EU.

Unfortunately funding for OSS in general is just not sustainable full time. And funding for OSS that is not a software dependency (part of the build chain) is nonexistent in the USA (as in $0.00 dollars in funding available).

Pretty much all β€˜real’ OSS funding in the USA is grants by companies using the software under the hood which just isn’t a thing for software like Voyager.

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Based on his librepay and github sponsors history, the answer would be no. Dont know about the donations through app store and play store

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.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Apollo had great media sharing capability. Ability to share videos and gigs and images.

That’s all I want.

Lots of images are webp but when I share them I just get the link to the file instead of a downloaded and cached media share.

Oh and when viewing responses to a comment I’ve made I’d love a button to see all responses to that comment, and then a further button to see the comment that I commented on if it was not the OP.

Thanks

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you maximise an image without going into the thread itself (I.e. tapping the image displayed in the feed), if you press the back button, it exits to your instance list

Would prefer if it only exited out of the maximised image

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

It shouldn't do that. Are you using the latest version? And PWA or native app?

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Okay thats my b

Thanks for the reply <3

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 3 days ago
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