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Voyager 1.19.0: Tap to scroll back where you were, auto hide posts, new gestures and more! (self.voyagerapp)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by aeharding to c/voyagerapp

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Another fairly large release! Before I get into it, thanks to those who have donated! I had a $50 one-time donor today which means I won't be working on Voyager tomorrow evening 😉

New Features

Modded communities list

Quickly get to all moderated communities if you have them!

Share Gesture

You can now swipe to share. This is native-app only, due to web API limitations.

Collapse Comment Gesture

There has always been a "collapse to top" comment gesture. But now there's a collapse comment gesture, which behaves similarly to tapping a comment to collapse it.

Inbox items marked read on reply and vote

This is a nice little feature when you have a lot of new unread notifications in your inbox. Swipe to upvote, and it's read!

"Later" long swipe gesture

If you are overzealous with your swipes and accidentally trigger the long swipe gesture, you can now configure it to trigger later, requiring a longer swipe.

More actions inbox ellipsis

This ellipsis has always been here, it just hasn't been implemented till now. 😅

Improved communities list performance

If you're subscribed to hundreds of communities, you should see improved performance on the communities list page.

Tap status bar again to scroll back to where you were

(iOS native app only) This was a nice Apollo feature: When you tap the status bar, you're scrolled to the top of the page, but if you tap again you will be scrolled back to where you were! Great to glance at the OP when you're deep in comments.

New install guidance

The "Install App" page now provides links to install the native apps, if you'd like.

You can always continue to install the PWA by tapping "launch as Web App"!

Filter subscribed in All/Local

Does what it sounds like it does! You will only see subscribed in All/Local. This setting is at the bottom of General settings.

Auto Hide Read Posts

Once you read a post, it will be hidden the next time you refresh the feed. You can also disable hiding read posts within communities.

Improved mark read on scroll

Posts should now be always marked as read on scroll, no matter how fast you scroll.

What's Changed

Scroll comment into view if needed by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/857
Add modded communities list, add moderator feed by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/859
Fix back button vertical alignment by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/861
feat: add share gesture by @80avin in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/705
Add collapse comment gesture by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/862
Fix overflowing action sheet labels by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/863
Fix double pushing route by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/864
Mark read on reply, vote by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/865
Add more actions ellipsis in inbox by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/866
Add configurable long swipe trigger point by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/867
Fix black space on bottom after scroll up by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/868
Add inlined icons, move to common file, upgrade vite to v5 beta by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/869
Fix communities list performance with 100s of subscriptions by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/871
Fix double requests for feed and comments by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/870
Fix pull to refresh by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/874
Add setting to only present NSFW reminder once by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/878
Add tap status bar again to restore feed scroll position by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/882
Fix custom manifest.json not being served by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/883
Add feed filters by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/876
Add native app install guidance by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/872

Full Changelog: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/compare/1.18.0...1.19.0

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tap status bar again to scroll back to where you were

Nice! Probably one of the smallest things in the list, but I’ve caught myself a few times trying to do this. Muscle memory from years of Apollo. So I’m glad to see this feature.

Thanks for all your hard work!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, this is a really important change.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Filter subscribed in All/Local

Does what it sounds like it does! You will only see subscribed in All/Local. This setting is at the bottom of General settings.

Why filter to subscribed in all/local? Isn't that what home is?

Edit: oh, I think it does the opposite of how you described it. That makes more sense

[–] Yukito01 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for your hard work. I'm loving the Voyager experience!

If I may be so bold to request something, could there be an option to disable "tap to collapse comment"? I find myself mistapping all the time, and if the username is long, it's hard to find a place to retap to expand the comment again.

[–] aeharding 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got good news for you! There’s already an option for that in settings -> general -> tap to collapse

[–] Yukito01 2 points 1 year ago

My! How did I miss that? Thanks a bunch, you guys are the best.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

nice work!

maybe somebody here knows... is it possible to turn off the page transition animations? i was expecting voyager to respect prefers-reduced-motion but it doesn't seem to affect that

[–] aeharding 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's planned!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

awesome! looking forward to it :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amazing! Will unhide read posts be coming soon? Would also love the option to move the community name to be on top of the posts instead of the bottom so I dont always open the community by accident instead of opening the post

[–] aeharding 2 points 1 year ago

You can unhide read posts in Profile -> Hidden Posts -> Reset :)

There will also be a hide temporarily vs permanently option coming.

Would also love the option to move the community name to be on top of the posts instead of the bottom so I dont always open the community by accident instead of opening the post

Yeah I need to figure out a good way to resolve this. I was thinking I could make the instance domain not clickable, so there's always that middle tappable space. Or I could move community name and instance to separate lines. This will require a bit more investigation to decide what approach to go with, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Test for inline gif playback

test1

Test for inline webm playback

test2

[–] garretble 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems like this update (so far) has also helped with some scrolling issues I’ve been seeing on iPad with a trackpad. I hope I’m not speaking too soon on this, but it feels much better to use right now.

I’ve recently been using an Alexandrite instance for Lemmy on my iPad for a bit because of this, so I’m happy it’s seemed to be improved,

[–] aeharding 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yay! Just because I'm curious, do you browser Lemmy on iPad more often portrait or landscape?

[–] garretble 3 points 1 year ago

I often have my iPad in landscape mode with stage manager on during the day. I’ll plug it into a monitor on occasion for a bigger screen — and of course in that instance I can’t touch the screen.

I have a trackpad and keyboard for it so I can use it off to the side while I do my main work on my main monitors.

Before, the app would get into some state where the scrolling would be really stuttery with the mouse, especially when I went back and forth between posts. But so far today I haven’t noticed anything like that.

But to directly answer the question, I’m almost always using my iPad in landscape.

[–] garretble 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Uh oh, it’s been a few days, and my issues with scrolling via trackpad seem to have crept back up. Oh well.

I’m sure it’ll get resolved at some point.

Edit: When I just reread this now, it kind of sounds passive aggressive, and that’s not my intention at all. Just FYI for anyone reading this.

[–] aeharding 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s the issue? Scrolling doesn’t work? Or scrolling up causes a refresh?

[–] garretble 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s just that the scrolling that get really stuttery and sometimes stop working for a few moments.

It’s kind of hard to pin down because on a fresh app load it usually is working just fine. But as you use the app the behavior starts to creep up. What I experience is that when doing the two finger scroll, I’ll flick and it may take a couple of seconds before the scroll initiates. And when it does, it doesn’t have the inertia you are used to. It’s like a “hard” start and stop.

It’s kind of hard to QA since I unfortunately can’t give straight repro instructions. So I apologize for that. But I’ve now noticed it pop back up in any instance (outside of stage manager even which was what I was talking about in earlier posts here). This is an M1 iPad if that makes any difference.

Edit: I should also point out that this is just with the trackpad. Scrolling behavior seems fine when using the touchscreen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your hard work and anyone else who contributed! Just need to wait for Apple to approve the update!

[–] artichoke 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the hiding posts on communities option!!

Keep up the great work!