Voyager

When I search for a post the default search filter [the green circle in the attached image] is set to "top post all time". Then I usually click to "new".

But as a lazy user I want that the filter to be set as "new" as the default search filter.

Hi all! Usually I don't make a dedicated post, but v2.47.0 of Voyager has a lot of goodies, so I thought I'd let everyone know here. I'm especially looking for users to test Voyager's new rich text editor! Please provide your feedback in the comments ^^

Update: There have been reported Android issues that should be fixed in v2.47.1, iOS should be fine!

Rich text editor

Off by default (Turn it on in General Settings -> Other). Markdown content will receive formatting live as you type! The only limitation (due to browser APIs) is undo on ios doesn't work.

Lemmy v1 support

It's experimental but should be fully supported! Let me know of any issues!

Post tags

On lemmy v1 and Piefed Voyager now supports post tags! Currently you can't filter, but that will be coming.

New comments highlightifier

This feature works best on lemmy v1, actively highlighting new comments. Only lemmy v0 it only shows you "X new comments" - but doesn't have the data to tell you what comments are new. On piefed this feature is not yet supported!

Thanks and I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend!

I'm new to Voyager and I keep replying to comments with the Reply to POST button instead of using the comment hamburger. If it's an original reply to my post, it's the only comment on the screen.

Not sure what to suggest, but there has to be a better way.

I'd even consider it sensical to entirely get rid of that big reply button, since it's very unlikely you are in this particular place (clicked the comment in the inbox) to make a new original comment to the post.

I reply to a comment.

Later, I want to see other discussion around the comment--who else replied, what they said, etc.

As far as I can tell, there is no easy way to do this. If I See Parent Comment, or whatever, it keeps me locked into that chain of replies and I cannot see anybody elses replies unless they are beneath my comment.

My only options are: 1-View all comments and find the original comment there. 2-Go to the user's profile and find the comment, click on it, be brought back to thread at that comment (this is what I'd like to do with a single click).

This used to be a feature on a reddit (maybe it was called "go to comment"), but disappeared in the enshittifification.

Edit: Clarification:

What I want to see:

Comment A
= A Reply to Comment A
= = Reply to reply to comment A
= My Reply to Comment A
= = Reply to My Comment
= Yet Another Reply to Comment A

Right now, the best I can easily do is:

Comment A
= My Comment
= =Reply to My Comment

I’ve tried clicking subscribe on it so that way it would become a subscribed community, but I can’t unsubscribe from it. And there’s no way to remove that community from my list.

It’s been stuck in that list for weeks. When I click on.” Home” Which would show posts from subscriptions, post from that community show up. Does anybody have any idea how to get rid of that community out of my subscribed list?

Anyone else got this problem? Session expires and I have to log in again every few hours.

My cell phone is my daily driver and I'm a pretty extensive user of an external keyboard.

One thing that would make a big difference to my UX is being able to page down with the tap of the spacebar (if I'm not editing text).

Am I triggering a gesture by accident?

EDIT: Oh, I see... the upvote count right next to ¨Comments" also counts as an upvote button.

when I use the gesture navigation bar it does, but when I use 3 button navigation it's always this colour no matter the theme or whether I'm using dark / light mode.

Not sure if this is a feature or a bug:

When i open the app in firefox on the PC.

If you press and hold the left mouse button while the mouse is on the header bar the app will revert it to white mode.

and vice versa for white to dark

A few of the features are also available in Piefed. It might be helpful to implement them both at once :)

I've started using Voyager again after trying out other clients because I love the ui and ux, however, I notice a lot of Piefed features such as cross posts, emoji reactions, flairs, and feeds aren't supported. While it could take a while, I would like to see implementing some of these features explored. Absolutely no pressure to do this and I completely understand if you'd rather prioritise other features, since these can be done from Piefed ui which I use on desktop now.

In Mlem there is this cool option to have the community list divided by server.

I find it useful and it's easier to navigate for me.

The "ugly" part of this is that all the server with just one community end up in a single group called "others" (iirc) to not bloat the ui

Anyway, still good to use.

If I had to suggest a UI for it I'd say to keep it like that but add some line breaks with titles, no need for anything special

I know my phone isn't compatible anymore and features won't work, but the constant red exclamation mark at the bottom is bothersome even though the app is still working fine enough.

Edit: Webview version identifier being sent to apps still reports as an old version due to an android 9 bug or something so my webview is updated. I would just like the notification to go away.

Since a few days, I get 50 posts in the All feed, and no more

If I close the All feed and open again, I get a refreshed list with new posts added, but as many old posts disappearing.

Is this a voyager app issue, or is this a server issue?

I'm really annoyed that there doesn't seem to be a way to show hidden posts after you've hidden them. I accidentally hid all read posts in a community that I moderate, and while I disabled marking posts as read to prevent that from happening in the future, I cannot reverse the misclick in any way. This makes it harder to manually check any of those posts without using a different app or a browser.

While I know I'm a weirdo who doesn't use social media like most people (I never use feeds and always look at specific communities or pages at a time), it is really annoying when interfaces are designed in a way that make my life harder. I love checking on posts multiple times throughout the day so I don't miss out on any conversation. I hate feeds feeding me endless content and like it when repeat posts give my scrolling a natural endpoint. I just wish there was a way to reverse decisions that you can easily access with a single click. It hurt me inside to lose several days worth of posts that I might've checked in on, and not finding any option to help me was infuriating.

Feeling like I'm not getting all the information I want to see is seriously turning me off of this app, which sucks because there aren't many like it. Open source apps without ads are hard to come by, and I while I do enjoy this app overall, I often need to use a web browser to see critical information like old posts, full mod actions, and user profiles. It's a shame, because I doubt these features will ever be added.

Hi! Right now in order to block someone or a community you need to go first to the user/community and flock from there. It would be useful to have these two options available in the homepage, like Boost does, for example.

Hi! I really like the saved post feature but i'd love to tag them for me to efficiently sort through. Is this possible?

A month or two ago I made a few posts on reddit to nudge people to join PieFed
More details here
The posts got 500,000 views and a couple thousand people joined PieFed.

This is the insights of a Reddit community, as you can see the vast majority of people prefer using a mobile app.
~98% of users are using a mobile app.

One issue I kept seeing in the comments was that there's no "PieFed" app on any of the app-stores.

I want to be able to tell people, "Hey there's this cool PieFed app, just search for it from the App-Store"

With age verification and other BS looming, the next Rexit is coming, we need to be ready. Ideally people can just comment, "Yea Reddit sucks, Just download PieFed from the app-store"

Can we make this happen? I'm sure it'll greatly benifit Voyager, PieFed and the Fediverse

I love Voyager already, but something really hit me today to where I want to give you a shout out.

I usually browse all posts, but that can be a downer. I decided to subscribe to some less consistently depressing communities so I can better filter out the doom and gloom for my bad days. I got ready to start combing for communities, but then saw the starter packs. So much of the work had already been done for me. I saved time and was introduced to some communities I may not have found otherwise.

Thanks!

I have several keyword filters set up for my account, but posts in my local feed aren't getting filtered out.

I've tried clearing the app cache (after a force stop), as well as deleting and re-adding the filter with no success.

Is this likely due to piefed support being experimental?

The issue: Certain website (like wired.com) will limit the number of articles a user is allowed to see before a paywall is forced on the user.

Proposed solutions:

1. Allow the user to clear cookies for a website, resetting the limit. Possibly even introduce a user editable list of websites where cookies are cleared when the site is exited.
2. By default or a list based on website, open links into “private browsing”/“incognito mode”, which should remove persistent cookies.

Additional information: many websites accomplish the paywall through the use of a client side tracking cookie. Removing the cookie resets the counter.

Additional removing cookies helps limit online tracking, keeping the user slightly more private.

Removing cookies does come with some downsides. If the user is logged into the website, removing cookies generally logs them off. Also, any persistent settings will likely be lost. Due to the normal use case of Voyager and Lemmy, this likely won’t be a significant issue.

On iOS: it doesn’t appear cookie data is shared between safari and voyager. Websites visited in Voyager do not show in the cookie list on the safari app.

Anything to add? Is there a setting that does this and I just missed it?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/12809391

Most days I'll scroll through the All feed and read posts of interest. If I come back an hour or so later and start scrolling again, I'll see the same posts in the same order, even though I've set my Lemmy app Voyager to hide posts automatically if I scroll past them.

Note that I'm not talking about duplicate posts, I'm talking about a repeated series of posts.

Anyone have any ideas on what's causing this?

Is this a PEBCAK issue, or is there something else going on?

Edit: I've got "mark read on scroll" enabled as well as "hide read posts".

This only happens on Voyager. Nowhere else. The keys take longer to register and let go, which results into sticky keys and slow typing as if the keys are actually sticking to my thumbs. I tested everywhere and it doesn’t happen except on Voyager. Is anyone experiencing the same issue? Thanks
iPhone 17 pro max
iOS 26.4.1

So I noticed voyager has an Apple Watch app but it doesn’t seem to show my home feed at all, I was wondering if anyone knew how fix this, or if there is a specific way to set it up.

Thanks in advanced!