If I accidentally swipe open the communities when browsing my feed, I should be able to swipe out of it back to my feed. Another option would be to have an option to disable swipe to open communities picker.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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Lately I've been getting more issues with images failing to load. Virtually every image from feddit.org had issue some days, but today I see random posts from mander.xyz and lemmy.world too. I tested it on another app and they load there. I can also open the lost in a browser to see the image.
Other than that the app is really nice, although I hate accidentally backspacing one time too many and restarting my scrolling from the very top of "all" π
Did you test another app with exact same instance and login?
Yeah, here's a screenshot using the sync app and another using voyager. Both signed in to pilon23@feddit.dk. I noticed it happening to a load of feddit.org posts, and now I notice this was also a crosspost to master.xyz from there
That image is loading fine for me on feddit.dk with Voyager. So I'm not sure what could be causing the issue you're seeing. Are you on the latest version of voyager.
Yeah I'm on 2.23.2. I also see that feddit.org doesn't even show up when searching for it in the communities. I'll try with a different account on voyager tomorrow to see if it's my app or maybe related to my account
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
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
The ability to do sidebar editing would be lit!
Keep up with the great work!
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I would love the ability to add in my own images to a link post as the post's thumbnailβ¨
When I make Youtube posts I use Invidious and sometimes the native thumbnail will load but most often times not. As such I often have to add in the thumbnail into the text details of the post.
Either way thank you and your contributors for the hard work to make Voyager great!π₯³
That sounds annoying that the thumbnail won't load. Is there a lemmy bug for it?
Not sure tbh
Checking just now I found a closed old bug on Lemmy's issue pages.
I also know that Invidious has been having issues as Youtube's also changing their system which also caused outages with Youtube frontend alternatives like Newpipe.
So it's hard to say where the problem's stemming from.
I originally asked for this feature because of the Invidious problem but I do also think it'd be nice to have in general as users like myself could upload our own images instead of having to rely on external services
Perhaps some work on a sidebar for navigation for tablets or desktop?
I know Apollo never had that, but when Iβm on my iPad I tend to use Arctic simply because it uses the real estate better. But I use Voyager on my phone.
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Iβd love to see a floating action button like Thunder has with configurable shortcuts. I love this feature for quick navigation, dismiss all read (not fully hide since a refresh can bring those posts back), etc.
I try to use Voyager every few months, but keep going back to Sync because:
- I want more control over the appearance of my feed, comments, and replies. For the feed, Sync provides:
- The Back stack on Android seems weird. I don't use a lot of apps with bottom nav bars, but I think they should maintain an entry in the back stack for each category. Voyager seems to keep every instance that I've visited as a separate entry.
A lot of people like Voyager, so you're clearly doing a great job. Keep it up!
I used Voyager for a while and here are the issues i noticed before I switched to another app (which also has issues):
- Gestures for actions tend to take big motions, bigger than is comfortable to me, and the difference between actions is small. Like, I need to swipe very far (and not too fast), and then within a few millimeters, it goes from upvote to downvote. In the end i was just wishing for buttons considering how much work was to reply or downvote.
- The combo of auto-marking posts as read when scrolling and hiding read posts doesn't work too well. I frequently refresh my feed to only see stuff I've already seen and the posts stick around until I manually click then, go back and refresh. When I drag down at the top of my feed to refresh, I want to see posts I haven't seen before. Refreshing 2-3 times and seeing nothing new...i don't think anyone expects that from a social media app. Nearly all Lemmy apps seem to have trouble with this behaviour.
- I don't think it's a great idea to make "click = comment and thread disappears" the default. I often did it by accident and was very disorienting.
- I would often accidentally swipe/touch something, not realize what, and end up at my feed, the post I was looking at entirely gone, and no easy way to go back. To this day I'm not sure how I did that, but each time it a bummer to give up the post I was reading.
Sometimes I can't scroll voyager when using iPhone mirroring with iOS 18/macOS 15. I haven't been able to pin down what causes it to occur though unfortunately.
Weird!!