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With today's update I dare say Voyager is now better than Apollo was (i.ibb.co)

submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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User tags are going to be so useful. Keep up the good work, @aeharding@vger.social!

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Make sure to also hit the tip button! Let’s keep aeharding motivated to keep improving Lemmy for us.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I don't see it and FDroid didn't say it has an update

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 hours ago

Oh hell yes.

Thank you! Voyager is awesome.

[-] geography082@lemm.ee 8 points 6 hours ago

It is. And I have to give a big thanks to the dev . Really amazing job to bring lemmy to a state of the art client for iOS

[-] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 hours ago

Very cool!! I was just thinking about how this would be nice to have. Thank you devs, and op for sharing!

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Fixed user bans with expiry. Can I get an explanation of what this means?

I’m hoping it means that issuing temp bans Weil actually ban and showing mod logs. Prior to- only perma-bans seemed to take.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 68 points 12 hours ago

I mean Voyager is like 15 billion miles from Earth and has been operating since the 70s. The Apollo program was very impressive but was discontinued decades ago.

[-] gra5per@sh.itjust.works 1 points 38 minutes ago

15 billion miles? Pfft... I just saw on TV that it's lost in the Delta quadrant! Can you believe it?!? That's a bit further than 15 billion miles.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 3 hours ago

I just realized why it's called Voyager. Thanks!

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Why? Cause they went on voyages?

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Here’s your upvote. Now take a lap.

[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I also thought it was about space. Good for the app though.

[-] SatyrSack@feddit.org 31 points 11 hours ago

In my mind, Voyager was always on the forefront with features compared to other Lemmy clients. I'm surprised it took this long to implement this!

[-] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

Yep, I think I still have 3-5 other clients installed that I haven’t used in several months. I bounced around more in the wefwef days and a bit in the early Voyager days just to make sure I wasn’t missing something even greater. But this one always felt right and had some settings that I loved.

This beautiful FOSS app that collects no data about me is by far the most used “social media” app on my phone. More than all the others combined, most likely.

Edit to add: Today is the day I’m gonna go find that tip button… and done!

[-] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 13 points 9 hours ago

Still, nothing but grateful for the Voyager devs.

I know Christian (the OG Apollo Dev) was not happy about Voyager, but their work has been stellar imo. Loving the work, and keep it up.

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago

Other than sounding a bit annoyed that the UI was identical, did Christian express further unhappiness? Love(d) both apps

[-] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 hours ago

I haven’t really seen anything since the exodus but I think he’s just not the kind of guy who cares too much about niche decentralized internet communities.

He’s very much in the Applesphere of polished premium apps that do specific things. Which is fine. He’s frankly the only dev I knew of who did that without being a total ghoul and even then I was seeing a lot of complaints about people being begged for subscriptions, which I never found excessive (he claimed those people were experiencing a bug).

I don’t really know what to make of his opinion, I don’t know if he saw the UI as a threat or a liability to him or anything like that.

I would love Voyager (mine is still called Wefwef) as a native iOS app because I run into some quirks of the web app backend (especially when editing text), but what we have now is excellent and has made the transition much more bearable. I do still feel like something is missing and I miss how much more connected with the world I felt as a longtime Reddit user, but it’s okay, people’s primary platforms used to change all the time (and as yet another wave of Twitter users are finding out, it can be a hard first few months).

[-] GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

I decided a while ago that I don’t think his complaints are a big deal to me, especially because he said he had no plans to develop a lemmy client of his own, which I would have happily supported.

After his experience with Reddit, I would have thought he would support anything that helped users leave the platform, and if that transition is made easier by a very similar app that doesn’t compete with anything he makes, why complain?

That’s just my take on it, others can feel differently.

I would have probably dropped lemmy because I couldn’t find a client that I liked until I came across the early versions of voyager/wefwef.

[-] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 5 points 2 hours ago

especially because he said he had no plans to develop a lemmy client of his own

Largely my opinion on the matter. He made such a good product that it almost kept me from switching to Android. I see Voyager as a continuation of and an homage to his good work.

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

Yeah I share the same general impression of him.

What do you notice specifically with text? I have found the app from the app store looks and feels almost identical to Apollo and behaves like a native app, particularly compared to stuff made with Flutter for example.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world -2 points 3 hours ago

Another day of boost being ahead of the curve hehe

[-] tomatoely@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Has it fixed the markdown inconsistencies yet? Last time I tried the app for lemmy all the spoiler boxes I saw just didnt work

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Closed source and it's got ads. lmao pass. Go back to !boostforlemmy@lemmy.world

[-] Flickerby@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Connect has had this and everything else for a long while but it's a bit janky on image loading occasionally. Still best Lemmy client I've used, though that may be because I'm coming from RiF and not Apollo, super similar

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

The F in FOSS was worth it for the two years it took for other clients to catch up lol. imo it was the most complete package after the reddit transfer.

I might actually switch now considering there are lots of feature developed apps available, but it was funny seeing people struggle to view content as simple as spoiler tags for months during thr lemmy boom.

[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

~~i don't see this and the app is updated :'3~~

nvm it's still experimental for now

[-] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 18 points 12 hours ago

Just enabled tags, but I'm not really clear, what are tags?

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 33 points 12 hours ago

To tag someone, click their username to go to their user page. Then click the three dots in the top right corner and then select "edit tag."

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh okay, like that feature I used to use in RES for reddit to label who the assholes were.

[-] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Or I can just hold (E: long press) your handle on the comment and do that from here. It's supposed to track from which comment you did that as well but I never tested it.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Oooh, you're right! I didn't realize that worked as well. Thanks!

[-] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 5 points 12 hours ago

Neat.

I'm also seeing numbers next to some people's name. It looks like its tracking net "karma" for the user? But its obviously not accurate (you have a [+4] as of writing).

Is that related to tagging?

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

That number should be how the total of upvotes and downvotes you have personally given that user. Useful for finding who to block when you see a troll comment and realize that nearly every comment you've seen from that user has been a waste of your time.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

User tagging was what I was waiting for to try Voyager again (I prefer tagging users over blocking them), but per-user vote tracking was the killer feature I wanted an app to have.

I guess this is goodbye, Boost. Time to write a user tag import script!

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago

I feel triggered by this entire sub-chat. My comments are half flippant, half heckle, half earnest and actual, half pedantic, half questioning, and no math (clearly).

Point is, I'm gonna offend people and their judgement will be sticky. What if my first impression is for a dickish reminder about mass nouns or a jab against the GqP? I love this part.

Please tell me there's a tag that says "80% horseshit but occasionally a mild zinger or honest comment" to put up near my name. We all can't be consistently awesome like FlyingSquid !