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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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[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I would very much like to be able to use emojis from various servers. E.g. blahaj has some trans emojis that'd I'd like to be able to use even on Lemmy.ml

Also remembering the selection for "sharing as image" to hide username/community would be nice

[–] breadcat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

very satisfied with it the way it is! thank you for everything ❀️

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

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

[–] Pilon23@feddit.dk 1 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 106 points 4 days ago (11 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 25 points 4 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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[–] aeharding@vger.social 19 points 4 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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[–] Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 65 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.

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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 61 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 18 points 4 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 6 points 3 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 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks friend!

[–] 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.

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[–] chrisbrummel@infosec.pub 40 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I’d love Apollo-level inline video playing.

Keep up the great work!

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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.

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[–] 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.

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[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 1 day ago

You're welcome!

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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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