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
- Add custom icons for time-based sorts by @tilden in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/524
- Forcing high resolution icon for iOS by @fer0n in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/526
- Fix block, message user not presenting login when logged out by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/528
New Contributors
- @tilden made their first contribution in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/524
Full Changelog: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/compare/0.28.1...1.0.0
this is awesome news!
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.
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).
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.
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.
I think he missed the boat on this one if he had any intention of building an Apollo for Lemmy. I don’t see why anyone would choose to use a closed source app after seeing how well the open source community has handled Voyager.
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