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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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.
I would like to see this too, just some roadblocks that need to be cleared - https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/91
It doesn’t need this to be implemented if its done via swiping on the bottom bar like it worked in apollo
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.
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.
Have seen this also - super random so I can’t help you reproduce it, but can back you up on that for sure.
Yeah same. Apollo had back and forward navigation and I miss that a lot.
Me too, I still haven’t found a Lemmy UI that does forward swipes. It’s the biggest thing I miss from Apollo. Alien Blue had it too for the oldheads here.
[email protected] has forward navigation just like Apollo. Arctic is inspired by Apollo, so it should feel just as familiar as Voyager, only it’s a native app. I don’t recall Alien Blue having forward navigation, but it’s been so long I guess that I have forgotten about it.
Apollo did this by letting you swipe on the bottom bar to go back into the thread. It remembered your position until you opened a new thread. It is a great feature
Yes, please add this type of navigation.
I asked for a “back confirmation” in a different comment for the same reason. It’s too easy to accidentally lose your place.
Boost does that.
The one feature I’m missing from Apollo. App is great otherwise.
This is a great feature. I miss it from Sync.
Back and forward navigation is the thing I miss the most.
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.
Thanks!!
Agreed, Voyager rules. Kudos.
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.
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Video from PeerTube and Loops is not embedded. Is it possible to be able to play videos directly in Voyager?
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).
I’d love Apollo-level inline video playing.
Keep up the great work!
Definitely will be added for peertube/loops, but Youtube would be hard to do so in a privacy preserving way.
Out of curiosity, if someone posts a YouTube link and you auto play the video, what gets shared with YouTube?
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.
Hey thanks! 💜
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.
+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.
This would be a major one for me. I crash a few times a week and have a hard time remembering what community I was even writing in if it’s not one of my go tos.
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.
Please add some well placed “back” confirmations. For example, when browsing All please ask for a confirmation when hitting back before returning to Home.
And/or remember where we were in the scroll list for all/home (That seems like it’d be hard to implement - even original Apollo had this flaw - so the way DJKJuicy put it is probably the play)
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
alland 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
Point 2 and your also
Those are my big two.
Searching in the settings would be great
Yeah, settings is getting a bit much
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 :)
To add to this, just having a search history would be awesome. There’s a bunch of times that I’ve stumbled across neat things, neglect to save them off, and then forget the keyword that got me there.
Bonus points for true deleta-ability (for anonymity/security)
I’d like to see number of new comments since the last time I opened the post.
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.
Are you on Android?
Yes
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 ‘[email protected]’. 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)
yes that iOS bug is annoying.
That’s an option, it’s already there. The future is now!
Could you give me a hint? Gone through the settings but can’t see it. Community icon is an option, but those are too small to be useful (for me anyway)
Gee, I searched for it and couldn’t find. But mine is configured to show instances. It will only not show them if the community is in my home instance.
Hmm - it should always add the
.comif its a remote community. Local omits. Could add a setting to always force it onIt does with ‘show community at top’ turned on. But that makes it harder to click on the title to see the post. With that option turned off, it show the community at the bottom but without instance info
Screenshot, on iPhone. No instance info on any community
