submitted 8 months ago by dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I know there are a ton of iOS apps for Lemmy. But what are they missing? What experiences would you like? It could be quality of life or big and ambitious features Many of you often have really good ideas and feedback, I’m looking forward to responses.

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[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Most of them can't do the basic formatting of Lemmy, so in my mind, they are basically useless.

**Bold**
Bold

*Italic*
Italic

^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~
^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~

~~Strike-through~~
~~Strike-through~~

spoilerSoiled

spoiler

Soiled

[-] Link@rentadrunk.org 27 points 8 months ago

Voyager supports all of these apart from spoilers.

[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 8 points 8 months ago

You'd think they would have worked on the spoiler one first, slightly more important than making your text look interesting.

[-] Link@rentadrunk.org 12 points 8 months ago

They seem to be having some difficulties but it is being worked on: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/9

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think it's because spoiler tags in lemmy have been custom-made for some reason, whereas all the other stuff is standard markdown. Voyager is a web app, so it can maybe only render whatever the engine it relies on can render.

Edit: Turns out I'm 2 for 2 on making incorrect statements in this comment.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

I’m pretty sure spoiler tags are just not part of the markdown specification. This would mean it’s probably easy enough for an application developer to just take the raw comment and pass it to what I assume would be a markdown rendering library (haven’t done app dev much), but spoiler tags won’t work without some additional work.

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 4 points 8 months ago

A quick Google suggests you're correct - big sites have implemented their own versions, but it looks like everyone has spent the last decade arguing with other about a CommonMark standard.

[-] aeharding@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, this. Remark, the markdown library Voyager uses, is very powerful but also extremely complex (it has to be, to deal with Markdown edge cases).

I made a bit of progress last week on a custom plugin but it’s a lot of work. There’s like 4 layers of parsing required.

I wish Lemmy used GFM spoilers, which just uses normal details and summary html tags. But alas.

It’s really annoying there’s no standard markdown syntax in common mark.

[-] unbuckled@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

It’s not just a web app anymore.

[-] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Voyager added support for spoilers since the comment I'm responding to.

Just in case anyone wanders in here and is considering Voyager.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 8 months ago

spoiler
Soiled

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Voyager does bold and italic without needing to know those, but yea it would be nice to ^add^ the ~others~ you listed ~~without~~ the syntax. It also does crossposting, text faces (/¯ ಠ_ಠ)/¯ share comments and posts as images, preview,

quoting

, auto finding communities and users sorted by most pustular, porting subs from Reddit to communities, etc.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 points 8 months ago

Boost did not do superscript and spoiler for some reason.

[-] Oisteink@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago

Arctic had all these covered. It’s not perfect but my fave so far

[-] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Raccoon managed everything but the sub/superscript. Not too shabby!

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Eternity works for all of them except spoilers

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

Thunder failed the formatting test. Still like it though.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I wonder if it works differently on iOS, because it displayed all of those properly for me except for the super/subscript on Android.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Connect did them all right. It has it's own problems, but I'm staying with it and support the dev for now on.

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

On my client (Jerboa), all of these worked except for ^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~, honestly I don't know why it doesn't support this very specific formatting thing.