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Voyager

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The official lemmy community for Voyager, an open source, mobile-first client for lemmy.

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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. πŸ™‚

Happy version 1.0! πŸŽ‰

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.

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

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[–] BitingChaos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But Apollo for Lemmy could be more $$$ for him!

Maybe not as much as he got with reddit, but a lot of people would happily pay for it again.

If I had spent the past decade building something, I wouldn't want to just throw it all away.

[–] CarlosCheddar@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

I think he missed the boat on this one if he had any intention of building an Apollo for Lemmy. I don’t see why anyone would choose to use a closed source app after seeing how well the open source community has handled Voyager.

[–] june@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I really don’t think that making more money is a big motivator for him. He was pretty clear that he didn’t want to mKe another Apollo there at the end