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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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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 47 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] aeharding@vger.social 14 points 1 week ago

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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[-] toomuchbeer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Sometimes my feed just randomly refreshes, losing my position. As in I'll be scrolling, or swipe to go back to posts from a post, but it'll refresh the posts and return me to the top. It feels like a bug, but happens randomly so I can't reproduce.

Maybe there needs to be an option to manually refresh, and every time a user navigates back to posts a little non-intrusive popup displays with "Last refresh: X hours ago" for a few seconds.

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[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah same. Apollo had back and forward navigation and I miss that a lot.

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[-] Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] aeharding@vger.social 11 points 1 week ago
[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Agreed, Voyager rules. Kudos.

[-] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 27 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] aeharding@vger.social 11 points 1 week ago
[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 19 points 1 week ago

Video from PeerTube and Loops is not embedded. Is it possible to be able to play videos directly in Voyager?

[-] aeharding@vger.social 15 points 1 week 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).

[-] chrisbrummel@infosec.pub 19 points 1 week ago

I’d love Apollo-level inline video playing.

Keep up the great work!

[-] aeharding@vger.social 9 points 1 week ago

Definitely will be added for peertube/loops, but Youtube would be hard to do so in a privacy preserving way.

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[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

+1 for saving drafts. Pretty annoying having to write a message in a different app to be able to reference back to the original message.

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[-] Venicon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] aeharding@vger.social 8 points 1 week ago

Hey thanks! 💜

[-] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Point 2 and your also

Those are my big two.

[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Please add some well placed "back" confirmations. For example, when browsing All please ask for a confirmation when hitting back before returning to Home.

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[-] wisely@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago

Would it be possible to make it easier to copy a single word? Right now there are multiple steps where I need to hold it down, then click select text, then try to highlight a word if I want to get a translation of a word for example.

It would be nice if I could just directly highlight a word with a tap or translate without the multiple steps. Thanks for the app.

[-] xnx@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 week ago

Searching in the settings would be great

[-] aeharding@vger.social 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah, settings is getting a bit much

[-] somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I have a simple one.

When you search for a community, then start browsing one and go back to the search the text is gone. This requires you to retype the query for each community you visit.

It would be cool if the query was saved.

Thanks for all your hard work :)

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[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I'd like to see number of new comments since the last time I opened the post.

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't know if it's my phone or my fingers, but I constantly have issues with hitting the *3dot menu when I try to hit the vote buttons.

Oh, and inconsistent back behavior. When opening images, sometimes swiping for back closes the image and returns me to the post list, and sometimes it backs me out of the post list and I can't get back to the listing I had been looking through without reloading.

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[-] lewdian69@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I still want a way to go from the subscribed community list to where I was in the posts. If I'm in an article in a post and hit back once extra time by accident then I'm screwed and the entire post list refreshes.

[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Yes. It is too easy to lose your place by accidentally hitting back twice, then everything refreshes.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 1 week ago
[-] Docus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Apart from the known iOS issue requiring the occasional app restart, no bugs and loving the app. Only feature i’d like to see is a display of the instance in the post list. So not just ‘news’, but ‘news@lemmy.world’. Some community names exist on different instances (which I think is not helping new users, but it’s a lemmy problem, not a voyager one)

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[-] ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

One of favourite apps!

Two requests:

  1. Ability to open shared Lemmy URLs in Voyager, via share sheet to the app, iMessage extension maybe too, and clipboard recognition once in the app although this might have privacy issues I suppose. My family sends a lot of Lemmy links via iMessage and it’s annoying having to load the page, tap the image, close the tab after and return to iMessage to comment. I remember Apollo having something better with this.
  2. Block community on a post from an All, Local or Home feed. Right now you have to tap into the sub/community and then tap ellipses to get the block function.

Another thing is better search but I believe Voyager might be doing the best that it can right now compensating for the terrible search in Lemmy. And that terrible search might also be a byproduct of the federated instances (sync time, different restrictions, etc) which I guess is an acceptable trade-off for now if so.

[-] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

One feature I’d like to have is the option (maybe a setting) to recover text when commenting and then pressing as sometimes I reply to a comment and then want to read the original post again.

Thanks for making this app, it has been the Lemmy app I’ve tried by far

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[-] hydration9806@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

First off, thanks for making a fantastic app! Just a couple of niche requests:

  1. (Likely incredibly difficult to implement) When reposting have a way of detecting that the post in question has been reposted to that community already.
  2. A hopefully simpler request, NSFW images should stay blurred even when navigating to the comments. Often people like to check the comments before unblurring to avoid any unsightly images. I believe this is done by several other apps already.

Again though, great work! Been a very nice experience so far!

[-] virku@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

This is my main lemmy app.

The one mildly annoying thing that might be a user error on my point is that if I swipe into the community selector menu, I'm stuck. I haven't figured out how to get back to where I was.

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[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Thanks for all the work.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Add swipe forward as Appollo had (same as back, just in the other direction, to e.g. get to last opened post (which is on the right side in feed view.

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[-] Hafty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I would love to see a way to group communities akin to “multireddits”. So if I want a view of just my Apple related communities, for example, I can click my custom community and see only that content.

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[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Wood be nice to have a gif integration in comments where you can search and post gifs straight from the app. Prob no gif providers that are privacy focused though.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A couple of things irk me (on iOS):

  • Shaking the phone if I’ve opened a text editor brings up the “undo typing” dialog, even if I’m on the main feed or in a comments section
  • sometimes, the app freezes and restarts (almost like an out of memory) and I think it’s related to sometimes when I swipe away from a video or browser view, I can still hear audio from a media player for a second. Are views being left open on the background for a long time, possibly indefinitely?

Other than that, great app! Loving as an Apollo replacement.

Would it be possible to implement translations of posts and the ability to download videos like Apollo did?

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 week ago

The one bug that's always super annoyed me: clicking on a photo in my feed and when I swipe out it takes me to the "communities" tab where you choose Home/Local/All and it completely loses my place in my feed

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[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • Tags are working great! Would love to be able to link to the comment that made me tag, too.
  • Would be nice to have the searchable modlog instead of just myself
  • If I'm in a thread and accidentally hit back, I have to go back through the list to find that post again. A "last post" or something in the menu would be handy.
  • A bunch of gifs/videos don't show/play, but it works in other clients, instead I have to open in a browser. That would be a nice one to hit.
  • db0 added some flairs, which are apparently natively supported by lemmy, which is cool. They are gigantic in voyager (in comment threads when its posted standalone). Compare to the thread here. Would be great if this was supported to display next to the users in app too.

Definitely the one app I keep coming back too though, great work!

[-] aeharding@vger.social 6 points 1 week ago

Would love to be able to link to the comment that made me tag, too.

That should already be there - in the header of the edit tag dialog for the user, tap the comment button. LMK if it isn't working.

searchable modlog instead of just myself

This is in the plans, just need to do it in a way that is apple/google store compliant

If I’m in a thread and accidentally hit back, I have to go back through the list to find that post again. A “last post” or something in the menu would be handy.

There is an issue for forward on github. Otherwise, for the post feed, hiding posts can be a good alternative if you scroll long distances.

A bunch of gifs/videos don’t show/play, but it works in other clients, instead I have to open in a browser. That would be a nice one to hit.

If you have an example of something that doesn't work in Voyager but does work in other clients, please let me know. I'm not aware of anything at the moment.

db0 added some flairs, which are apparently natively supported by lemmy, which is cool.

Neat - although it is not a native lemmy thing afaik.

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The only bug I've run into is that I can't download videos. I'll hit "download video" and then it just does nothing. No prompts and I can't find any videos saved anywhere from it.

Otherwise I think Voyager has been the premiere experience for Lemmy 👌

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[-] neme@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Newer lemmy versions have the option to add a thumbnail url yourself when creating a post. It would be nice to have that also on Voyager.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Apollo had great media sharing capability. Ability to share videos and gigs and images.

That’s all I want.

Lots of images are webp but when I share them I just get the link to the file instead of a downloaded and cached media share.

Oh and when viewing responses to a comment I’ve made I’d love a button to see all responses to that comment, and then a further button to see the comment that I commented on if it was not the OP.

Thanks

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