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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks 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˜„

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

Yeah, here's a screenshot using the sync app and another using voyager. Both signed in to [email protected]. 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I would love the ability to add in my own images to a link post as the post's thumbnail✨

When I make Youtube posts I use Invidious and sometimes the native thumbnail will load but most often times not. As such I often have to add in the thumbnail into the text details of the post.

Either way thank you and your contributors for the hard work to make Voyager great!πŸ₯³

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

No matter how much I try to convince Android not to, it insists on killing Voyager sometimes when I switch to another app. This happens a lot when I'm trying to find a link to post in a reply, but also basically at random any time I switch to another app and back.

Voyager loses all state and just dumps me in my start page again. This is not fun if I'm replying, to say the least.

Contrariwise, Tusky (Mastodon app) drops me in exactly where I left off.

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

The ability to do sidebar editing would be lit!

Keep up with the great work!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Perhaps some work on a sidebar for navigation for tablets or desktop?

I know Apollo never had that, but when I’m on my iPad I tend to use Arctic simply because it uses the real estate better. But I use Voyager on my phone.

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

Sometimes I can't scroll voyager when using iPhone mirroring with iOS 18/macOS 15. I haven't been able to pin down what causes it to occur though unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I’m not sure if this is technically feasible, but I’d like to be able to mark an entire community as being read. Sometimes I subscribe to a new community and I’m just interested in the newer posts. Or some communities, like some that present the news, have so much timely content that they can overwhelm my feed. I’d like to mark the whole community as read in order to keep my feed cleaner and more relevant.

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

I used Voyager for a while and here are the issues i noticed before I switched to another app (which also has issues):

  1. Gestures for actions tend to take big motions, bigger than is comfortable to me, and the difference between actions is small. Like, I need to swipe very far (and not too fast), and then within a few millimeters, it goes from upvote to downvote. In the end i was just wishing for buttons considering how much work was to reply or downvote.
  2. The combo of auto-marking posts as read when scrolling and hiding read posts doesn't work too well. I frequently refresh my feed to only see stuff I've already seen and the posts stick around until I manually click then, go back and refresh. When I drag down at the top of my feed to refresh, I want to see posts I haven't seen before. Refreshing 2-3 times and seeing nothing new...i don't think anyone expects that from a social media app. Nearly all Lemmy apps seem to have trouble with this behaviour.
  3. I don't think it's a great idea to make "click = comment and thread disappears" the default. I often did it by accident and was very disorienting.
  4. I would often accidentally swipe/touch something, not realize what, and end up at my feed, the post I was looking at entirely gone, and no easy way to go back. To this day I'm not sure how I did that, but each time it a bummer to give up the post I was reading.
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