With today's update I dare say Voyager is now better than Apollo was

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.

Here’s your upvote. Now take a lap.
I just realized why it's called Voyager. Thanks!
- Why? Cause they went on voyages?
I also thought it was about space. Good for the app though.
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.

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!

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

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

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."
- 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.
- 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?
- Oh okay, like that feature I used to use in RES for reddit to label who the assholes were.
- Can we not add multiple tags?

Thank you! 💜

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

Oh hell yes.

Thank you! Voyager is awesome.

e: Ooh – I just noticed the user vote counts are colour coded, too. Nice touch!

What y'all tagging me as?

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

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

nvm it's still experimental for now

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

I just installed Voyager just to know that is the same as Wefwef, wtf. It seems that wefwef is the old name.

Yep. Always has been. Too many didn’t like the name, so he changed it early on. Kept the old one for those of us that liked it. Both domains are still available. I love the name wefwef.
- That explains why I heard too little about wefwef, because is a good piece of software. I have no issue with the name 🤷

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

I’m hoping it means that issuing temp bans will actually ban and show in the mod logs. Prior to- only perma-bans seemed to take.

Yes, temporary bans should be fixed.
- Thanks for the excellent work!

What are user tags?

A little note you can make that shows up next to someone’s name. That way when you see them later you can be reminded of something they said earlier. Particularly useful for keeping track of bad-faith trolls.

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

Fdroid is lagging behind because the build changes I've made at the same time broke the reproducible builds. It's slow turnaround but hopefully fixed soon.

there is no push notification and widget like original Apollo

Push notification cost money iirc.
- Push requires having a server to push those notifications. That requires having an entire Voyager server that stores your credentials and periodically checks for new notifications, sending them when it gets them.
  Money, yes, but also an issue with having a third party server storing credentials.
- The app can work in the background and periodically check for new messages, just like email clients do with IMAP accounts.
I think lemmy doesn't currently support push notifications so the app would have to stay awake in the background to check for them
- You don’t need to have the app running in the background. Notifications can be pushed from the cloud.
  Problem is, that costs money to host and run that job to check for notifications. This is why a lot of small developers end up burying notifications behind a paywall.
- It's neat how the receipt and storage of push 'notes could easily leverage the short-message idea in the original sendmail spec.
Meh, I bought Ultra lifetime after a few months of using Apollo and never even bothered using push notifications. Which is funny, because it was the main thing I missed when I originally switched from Android and RiF in 2020. Voyager is FOSS so it's understandable that there won't be push notifications, as that require servers which cost money, and it also introduces potential security issues. User tags on the other hand, were something Apollo sorely needed, and the dev never got around to it.
TIL iOS finally got widget support a few years ago
- I tried to use Voyager on ios 17 to add widget. But, the option is unavailable. Howver Apollo sideloaded can do that.

Wait so you tag people so you can follow their posts? Or their contents I guess? Seems like this turns it into a pseudo/hybrid twitter/mastodon type of thing but on the client side?

Strange. I never got the appeal of that form of social media. I think I’ve come to feel that I don’t really care who says what, I care about ideas and discussions.

You can tag anybody you want!
Tag your IRL friends so you can troll them online!
Tag your online trolls so you can friend them IRL!
The sky is the limit?
- I’ll have to go with the second option. None of my IRL friends use Lemmy!

Another day of boost being ahead of the curve hehe

Closed source and it's got ads. lmao pass. Go back to !boostforlemmy@lemmy.world
- 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
- 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.
Has it fixed the markdown inconsistencies yet? Last time I tried the app for lemmy all the spoiler boxes I saw just didnt work

The fact that I just spend 30 seconds after tapping this post to actually see the comments load in say otherwise.

And no, it’s not my internet. 250mb/s uplink should be enough, thank you. Seems to be enough for everything besides this app.

Never encountered such issues myself. Perhaps it is related to your instance?