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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] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

One thing that would be great, if possible, would be the option to choose what browser opens links. Right now it’s either in app or the default phone app. I’d love to just send articles to firefox focus to prevent all the ad pop up take overs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Show edited usernames and hexbears (and other instances that use the feature) pronouns next to usernames

My edited username for example doesn't show she/her

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

very satisfied with it the way it is! thank you for everything ❀️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I would very much like to be able to use emojis from various servers. E.g. blahaj has some trans emojis that'd I'd like to be able to use even on Lemmy.ml

Also remembering the selection for "sharing as image" to hide username/community would be nice

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 week ago (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 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).

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’d love Apollo-level inline video playing.

Keep up the great work!

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

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 β€˜news’, but β€˜[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)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Double tap doesn't work? ios or android?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is on iOS. Double tapping collapses or opens the entire comment field.

Currently to copy an actual word I need to hold down on the comment field, a menu pops up where I can select "Select text", where I can then go in and select a word to use for translation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Searching in the settings would be great

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