this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Voyager is perfect as is. Lightning fast to get updates, don't need to be at the mercy of Apple or Google to get into the official stores. And less work for the developers to publish a new version.
As users you don't perceive a difference. A native app in theory could cause your system to be vulnerable if a bug exists.
Because of the above reasons I'd really like Voyager to remain a PWA.
Except for the scrolling issue on iOS. If they don’t figure out a way to resolve that, I don’t care how many features they keep adding, I’m out. I’ve been tolerating it so far, and everybody keeps hand waving it away with “it’s a limitation of safari” and “all you have to do is not touch the screen for a second and it works like normal”. Uhh…no. This needs to be fixed. Once people have multiple other options, that don’t have this hindrance, (and honestly, I think we’re probably well past that point already) I can’t imagine too many people wanting to use this app vs literally any other choice.
What scrolling issue? The missing top-tap scroll-to-top functionality?
Every minute or so the app just refuses to scroll at all. The screen freezes up and nothing happens. The only solution is to sit and wait for a second without touching the screen until it decides to work properly again.
It’s borderline unusable, and I can’t fathom how so many people experience it and just tolerate it. I’ve just filed it under “Lemmy as a whole is new and kind of janky and it will eventually improve” but it’s starting to get to the point where it needs to be fixed or people will abandon this app for one that doesn’t have that problem.
Ug that sucks.
For the data point, I don’t have that issue. Not sure what the difference is. I’m using an iPhone 12 mini and iOS updated to the latest. Voyager works really well for me. Remarkably well.
Clearly it’s a problem many are having based on the upvotes. Hope it can be fixed.
So what you're saying is Apple sucks at programming, so you want voyager to make an iOS app?
I’m didn’t say or imply either part of that, but I guess nice try on trying to put words in my mouth for some odd reason.
Capacitor apps can be both.
Nothing is so perfect that it can’t be complained about. Also, voyager definitely has some (admittedly smaller) annoyances that stem from it being a web app.
Such as?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s still impressive. But I‘m very aware that it’s a web app and I have to step carefully. These might be small things, but they’re constantly annoying me.
I don’t think them making the native app wrapper means the PWA is going away
Ipa/apk s exist though, they can just have those on the website and not care about the official stores