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. 🙂

Happy version 1.0! 🎉

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.

What’s Changed

New Contributors

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

  • Lurklaughlove@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Congrats from a long time lurker. It’s been amazing to see voyager come together all the way from WefWef.

    It has been such a smooth transition from Apollo to Lemmy that I needed to come out if lurking to show appreciation for the hard work you guys have done on this app.

    Thanks again for all the hard work, I really can’t believe how well done this app is as a non-native PWA app.

    Really again, thanks for the hard work and congrats on the V1. Amazing job 🎉

      • relevants@feddit.deEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Damn you weren’t kidding. I always felt the swipe in Voyager to feel a little “off” but could never tell why. It was the haptic feedback! Now it feels just as natural as it used to in Apollo

  • wavymoney@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Thank you for this! Many have doubted me when I said this would happen, it’s always nice to have options!

  • totallynotarobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Did you guys do something good and clever with the swipe back gesture, or am I just getting the hang of it? It seems to be working much better, way fewer accidental upvotes.

    Thanks for all the hard work and congrats on the milestone!

  • swizzle9144@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Which will be the lowest supported iOS version?

    Edit: Please correct me if I’m wrong here’s a trend in iOS app development where all new apps have arbitrarily high iOS requirements when they could run on older iOS versions just fine. I would love to use Voyager but if it goes down the same route, I won’t be able to :(

    I know about the PWA but it can stop working for me over time when the old release of WebKit on my phone eventually becomes incompatible with it

  • greendakota99@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using Memmy over Voyager for a while because I wasn’t the biggest fan of the PWA style. Now that this will be an actual app, I will definitely have to re-evaluate my choice!

    Thanks for all the hard work!

  • BitingChaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    1. this is awesome news!

    2. this is also a big message to Apple that their web app system is apparently broken. The whole “shit stops working” pausing/hitching that has been an open bug for YEARS is a real bad look.

    3. As good as this app is, it is kinda sad that an Apollo “copy” seems to be ready to go before the actual Apollo app (which may never come to Lemmy).

    • june@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I doubt Christian will bring Apollo to Lemmy. He said that it was a labor of love and that after being burned by Reddit he’s done with that kind of dev work.

      • BitingChaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • june@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          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