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Voyager might become a native App in the future! (sort of) (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It is a limitation of a PWA. A native app (wrapper) will likely be coming though, and a custom Capacitor plugin could theoretically interface with the native API to switch out icons. Theoretically. No promises though :)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voyager is perfect as is.

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What scrolling issue? The missing top-tap scroll-to-top functionality?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is Apple sucks at programming, so you want voyager to make an iOS app?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.