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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When you maximise an image without going into the thread itself (I.e. tapping the image displayed in the feed), if you press the back button, it exits to your instance list
Would prefer if it only exited out of the maximised image
I’d love it if deleted posts included a link to the mod log to easily see if it was a case of moderator power tripping or just some asshole commenter.
I’d like to save drafts and have it connected to the post or comment I’m replying to.
Be able to search my saved comments and post.
Thanks for all the work.
No matter how much I try to convince Android not to, it insists on killing Voyager sometimes when I switch to another app. This happens a lot when I’m trying to find a link to post in a reply, but also basically at random any time I switch to another app and back.
Voyager loses all state and just dumps me in my start page again. This is not fun if I’m replying, to say the least.
Contrariwise, Tusky (Mastodon app) drops me in exactly where I left off.
Honestly, i just love voyager as it is. I’m still on reddit, but use voyager/lemmy like 4x more by now. So i’m sure there will be great improvement ideas here, I’m here just to thank you 💪💪
First off, thanks for making a fantastic app! Just a couple of niche requests:
- (Likely incredibly difficult to implement) When reposting have a way of detecting that the post in question has been reposted to that community already.
- 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!
I would like tags I’ve made for users to allow a dropdown to select ones I’ve previously made. For example, I’ve tagged numerous people as Zionists or Tankies, and would like to be able to quickly select that tag for new users to the list, instead of having to type it out and select the color.
- It’d be great if user tags and vote totals were included in settings export/import. Losing those would mean dropping Lemmy entirely at this point since I prefer to tag rather than block most problem users. Tag import is also critical if we want to write a script to import user tags from other apps like Sync or Boost (since it’d just be converting one JSON schema to another).
- It’s a longshot since I’m guessing it’d be incredibly heavy on API calls, but a way to import vote totals from Lemmy’s up/downvote history. Voyager’s vote tracking is the killer feature that had me drop Boost, but it was weird for the first week or so seeing people I knew I upvote all the time at only +1-3. We can manually set vote totals ourselves so someone could write a script to do most of the work outside of the app (especially if #1 is added), but a native way would be far more convenient.
- An option for long pressing the post thumbnail to show an enlarged preview of said thumbnail. Sync has this, if you needed an example of what I’m thinking of.
- An option to change what clicking on the OP or community in post view does. It’s an incredibly minor annoyance, but sometimes on Android I accidentally tap one of them when attempting to open the post.
The tags/votes not backing up is a bug, I’ll fix that asap!
Do you receive enough to make a living improving voyager?
Hi!
Let me please add to the thanks and kudos for all your efforts developing a truly excellent app!
Two new features I didn’t see elsewhere (my apologies if they were already mentioned or are otherwise off base):
- ability to search the comments of a post you’re viewing (like “find in page” on a web browser)
- ability to view the relevant portion of the mod log by clicking on a comment that has been moderated (e.g., deleted)
Thanks again!
Swipe anywhere to go back would be a nice added feature.
I just want to chime in and thank you for putting together this awesome app. I use the iOS app not than anything else on my phone, and I probably use v.programming.dev more than any other website on my Linux PC.
Could we add the “disable downvotes” option that lemmy had in native settings. Ie. it’ll hide downvotes and behave according to upvotes only.
I know this is technically possible in voyager if you’re on an entire instance with downvotes disabled, but lemmy settings let you do this with a single account, which voyager does not.
ALSO I’m loving the new label/tagging system. :)
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
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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
Point 2 and your also
Those are my big two.