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Happy v1!

Yes, there are still outstanding bugs. It's not perfect, and we will continue to make things better! But Voyager has come a long way, and all of the core functionality is there to use and enjoy lemmy. 🙂

Happy version 1.0! 🎉

This release only has one major new feature: Unique time-based sort icons! You can now quickly glance to see what sort you're currently on. Thanks @tilden!

Voyager is going to the App Store

I'm also excited to announce that the next major focus will be on releasing Voyager as an iOS app! This will fix various iOS bugs that we've encountered (white status bar, scroll "freezing" etc), and bring some nice functionality like haptics and tapping the status bar to scroll to top, and also improve onboarding for people that aren't familiar with Progressive Webapps. It also opens the possibility for other neat features, like the option to open links in your browser instead of in-app. You can see most of the work done in #410, to be merged shortly!

If you're curious how this is possible, check out Capacitor and AppFlow!

Note, an iOS app is subject to approval from Apple which may significantly delay its public release.

(Don't worry! The PWA isn't going anywhere! It has it's own benefits like being self-hostable, quicker updates and being available on desktop computers.)

Once the iOS app is released, work will begin on releasing to the Play Store.

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/compare/0.28.1...1.0.0

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Oh my god super excited to hear it will be coming to the play store. Once that happens it will probably be the perfect Lemmy app.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yahoo. Is F-droid release possibility too down the line?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Very nice! Thanks to everyone who has put their hard work and effort into this project so far. It is much appreciated 😊

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Looking forward to this. I haven’t been using Lemmy that much because I dont like any of the apps out there. I check lemmy out once in a while in Voyager. A dedicated app with this UI is definitely something I am looking forward to.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Amazing—just discovered it and I love the feel!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you for this! Many have doubted me when I said this would happen, it’s always nice to have options!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Great news!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Wohoo this is so exciting! I can’t wait for the app to be available in the AppStore

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Which will be the lowest supported iOS version?

Edit: Please correct me if I'm wrong here's a trend in iOS app development where all new apps have arbitrarily high iOS requirements when they could run on older iOS versions just fine. I would love to use Voyager but if it goes down the same route, I won't be able to :(

I know about the PWA but it can stop working for me over time when the old release of WebKit on my phone eventually becomes incompatible with it

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Not sure on lowest iOS support yet.

If the PWA doesn't work because of outdated Safari stuff, the app also won't work because of outdated Safari stuff.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Understandable.

Still, I just hope iOS 15 will be supported—I like to get the most mileage out of my older devices.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Been using Voyager since the death of Apollo and it’s become my preferred way to access Lemmy. Looking forward to an App Store release.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is this going to allow spell checker/auto correct to work on post titles?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is so exciting! Finally!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hey, congratulations! I like Memmy as well, but I'm starting to prefer Voyager lately!

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