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Is this your day job? How do you have time for anything else?

I'm impressed lol

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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I agree, liking this project a lot so far.

I actually started developing a lemmy client in my spare time a few weeks back (got authentication done, posts browsing/detail and commenting) but dropped it when I saw this project.

There's also a lot of apps being worked on right now so that helped me decide. Back when I started there were only two and I didn't really like either of them, I wanted something like Apollo.

I honestly prefer the PWA approach in this particular case and I rather contribute occasionally to this project than keep building and mantaining mine and dealing with the (small) headaches of publishing to each store.

PD: Just pushed a small PR to the main branch adding some appearance settings for compact view, not sure if it'll ever get merged to the project but it's there.

[โ€“] aeharding 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, thanks for your PR!

This is absolutely something I want to add, but I apologize if it will take a bit of time to get in. There's a lot of moving pieces particularly around settings.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, no prob, I'm running my own instance anyway and I understand this is not really a priority.

Also I'm seeing some linting issues so I'll fix that first then re submit it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You are a great lemming. Thank you for your contributions to the compact view!

[โ€“] Telstarado 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm super impressed with the dev's progress too, but I had to uninstall when I saw that Voyager was dropping a line item into my chrome browsing history with every post I tapped on.

Nothing sinister about my activity, but it seems like a bit of a privacy faux pas for me, so I uninstalled and moved to Connect instead. Might be back if the history thing goes away, as it's an excellent app otherwise.

[โ€“] aeharding 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is an Android thing. It's just the way PWAs on Android work unfortunately, when PWAs change URLs they get logged to the browser history. I think it's a poor behavior though, and I think Apple's approach is better.

Ive heard rumblings of changing this behavior on Android though.

[โ€“] itadakimasu 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh dang, never knew about this...

...this is not great. I suppose I can use a different browser just for the voyager PWA.

Does something like Firefox Focus or any other privacy browser support PWAs?

[โ€“] MothBookkeeper 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is actually really disappointing. Voyager has been probably my favorite app, but this is an issue I don't know if I can get past.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It works on Brave

[โ€“] kenbw2 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox on Android supports it nicely, but still puts entries into history

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh lawd. I just spent an hour blocking every porn community I could find.

I need to clear my browser history it seems

[โ€“] J12 3 points 1 year ago

I did that for an hour earlier today as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think you can block instances now on voyager so you can block all of lemmynsfw in one click

[โ€“] aeharding 1 points 1 year ago

At least you can clear for given domain... ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] ultimate_question 13 points 1 year ago

Lack of red tape and convoluted legacy code may help lol?

[โ€“] andrewta 11 points 1 year ago

I know what you mean

[โ€“] Bosa 8 points 1 year ago

Ya I dunno how they do what they do, but mad props to the Voyager team for all that they do

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The magic of open source. Dozens of people commuting to the same repo.

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