User tags are going to be so useful. Keep up the good work, @aeharding@vger.social!
Make sure to also hit the tip button! Let’s keep aeharding motivated to keep improving Lemmy for us.
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!
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 🤷
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
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!
What are user tags?
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
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.
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
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.
there is no push notification and widget like original Apollo
Push notification cost money iirc.
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.
So then „bury“ it behind a paywall, why is that bad? A server costs money so let the people who want to use that server pay their part. I see no problem with that.
I mean yeah, but hosting and running a voyager server that stores our login credentials would be a more complicated and difficult option for what gain? The simplest solution would probably be just waking up the app every so often to check, I think eternity does that
Speaking for iOS, I don’t believe this is possible. iOS has rules around what background processes can and can’t run on-device.
For notifications coming from the internet, in order to preserve battery life, Apple wants cloud APNs to wake up terminated apps to deliver notifications.
I know android does some similar battery preservation stuff around notifications, but I’m a little less familiar with that.
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.
