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Experimental Piefed support is now available for Voyager (vger.social)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by aeharding@vger.social to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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UPDATE June 29: Piefed support is rolling out to the official store listings today in v2.37.0 🎉

I'm excited to announce that Voyager now has experimental support for logging in with Piefed! You can try it out today on:

This will roll out to the official app stores and vger.app soon(tm), once I’m confident there are no major regressions. If you prefer not to switch to beta builds, just hang tight.

Please note that Piefed support is EXPERIMENTAL! There are still many things that don't work quite right, which I'm hoping to improve over the coming weeks.

The basics including scrolling home/all/local, viewing posts, blocking, commenting and voting should work well. However there are some known issues:

Can't sign up for a Piefed account in-app, only log in with an existing one
Subscribed communities list is empty (should be fixed soon!)
Inbox tab doesn't load
Comment search doesn't work
Profile upvoted/downvoted doesn't load
No moderation tools
Mark as read doesn't persist
Creating/editing posts is currently untested
...probably a bunch of other stuff too, please let me know below!

Behind the scenes, this interoperability is made possible thanks to aeharding/threadiverse, a new library I am working on to normalize various threadiverse-software APIs. It's open source so any project use it, but it's under heavy development right now. What's cool about this is in the future, adding support for mbin, or whatever else is possible!

Again, feel free to try it out and let me know if there are any more issues to be documented and fixed.

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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Edit glad to see rolling release of version 3.14, if there is anything irrational about it don't worry it will periodically resolve.

[-] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago

Wow I did not expect this to happen so fast! How exciting!

Signed up and I'm just patiently waiting for the update to show up.

Thank you so much for doing this. I have always been so impressed with Voyager.

Really love seeing PieFed emerge and now apps adding support is great.

The fediverse is so cool. Time to make some donations :)

[-] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

@aeharding@lemmy.world

Is this the best place to talk about bugs or give feedback?

I finally got the update. The login screen is able to find Piefed servers but it fails to connect to them.

It says "Problem connecting to piefed.ca. Please try again."

I tried the other Piefed servers for fun but they all gave the same result.

Oh actually piefed.blahaj.zone was recognized but that was the only one.

Let me know if you need any other info or if there's elsewhere to post this style of thing.

Thanks again for everything!

[-] kobra@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

I wasn’t able to get logged in either.

[-] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Fuck yeah! More donations coming your way, dude.

[-] DeadPixel@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the reminder, I just tipped via ‘settings > Support Voyager’ in-app. Been meaning to for a while anyway, but this deserves reward.

[-] aeharding@vger.social 10 points 3 months ago

Thanks! to everyone that supports Voyager ^^

Don't forget to support your instance/piefed/lemmy/etc too!

[-] xnx@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

Do they even get enough donations to pay for the $100/year Apple developer account fee?

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 15 points 3 months ago

Great work on the threadiverse interoperability library!

[-] aeharding@vger.social 12 points 3 months ago

Thanks! It wasn't part of the original plan, but I was working on lemmy v1 support and realized there was a lot of breaking changes to the API, and I wanted to support piefed down the road anyways... so perfect storm

[-] rimu@piefed.social 13 points 3 months ago

Great news, congratulations!

[-] aeharding@vger.social 7 points 3 months ago

Thanks rimu!

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

Amazing !

[-] ericbono@anonsys.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

@aeharding

Thanks for posting.

Logs in, loads up, shows my profile, hangs when I go to posts page. True for piefed.social on beta and android apps just now .

Lemmy.world + slrpnk.net seem to be doing same behavior.

[-] aeharding@vger.social 5 points 3 months ago

Should work fine, hmm what is your sort set to on that page?

[-] ericbono@anonsys.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

@aeharding

posts > home, all, or local

android

[-] ericbono@anonsys.net 2 points 3 months ago

@aeharding

Seeing same at beta.vger.app/posts/piefed.soc… on firefox + chrome PC desktop browsers now.

[-] MimicJar@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Hot Diggity Daffodil!

Uploading an image for a post seems to fail.

Problem uploading image: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'url'). Please try again.

[-] MimicJar@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

(Also, it case it wasn't obvious, this is most excellent news! HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE thanks to aeharding!)

[-] aeharding@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Works now, I'll get it fixed tonight :)

edit: fix deploying!

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure PieFed supports uploading images? I haven't been able to find that option on the web version.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

I love literally everything about this announcement.

I want to try other fedi platforms but have MAJOR inertia thanks to apps.

So I’m fucking thrilled the one I prefer also wants to prefer all the things

Brb ima spin up an account. I fucking love you voyager, and everything your team does (I assume it’s a team? If not I love you very specifically. Yes you. I love you.)

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Happy cake day!

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Hey thanks, I didn’t realize! Two years is a long time on such a new platform and I’m super here for it!

[-] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 3 months ago

💜

And happy 🍰 day!

[-] compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

This is awesome, thank you for your hard work! Lack of Voyager support for Piefed was the only thing holding me back - piefed.blahaj.zone, here I come!

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[-] Teal@piefed.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Exciting news! Posting from the PWA now. 🎉

If I’m not mistaken when you install the TestFlight version it replaces the stable App Store version. For those with the App Store version installed you can use the PWA at the same time without disturbing your main setup.

Backing up settings and restoring them works too. Just mentioning an another way in case it helps someone.

[-] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

That is great! I haven't really adopted PieFed yet, but I am trying it and I would love to have the same client for both.

[-] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Piefed.ca works now! As of 704

Thanks for all your hard work

aeharding@vger.social

[-] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Amazing thanks!! Seems to mostly be working for me.

@aeharding@vger.social I think I found a bug though:
Posts on https://piefed.social/c/southafrica don't load in the app

[-] fievel@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Is there a way to access it with Obtainium (e. g. github project releases) or F-droid?

Thanks this is a great project.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago

I'm unable to log in with my existing piefed.ca account (which works with the interstellar app).

No real explanation given, just a generic error.

Haven't used voyager before, so it's not an older app or missing update, I went straight into the beta.

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[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Great! I can make the switch off lemmy now!!

[-] brisa1795@preferred.social 1 points 3 months ago

Great news, and so fast! Is mbin-support in the cards some time in the future?

[-] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 3 months ago

That's the goal. Especially since the compat lib is separate, I'm hoping to get it mature enough to the point that it could eventually be community maintained.

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