User tags are going to be so useful. Keep up the good work, @aeharding@vger.social!
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?
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.
I also thought it was about space. Good for the app though.
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.
Oooh, you’re right! I didn’t realize that worked as well. Thanks!
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?
That number should be how the total of upvotes and downvotes you have personally given that user. Useful for finding who to block when you see a troll comment and realize that nearly every comment you’ve seen from that user has been a waste of your time.
I feel triggered by this entire sub-chat. My comments are half flippant, half heckle, half earnest and actual, half pedantic, half questioning, and no math (clearly).
Point is, I’m gonna offend people and their judgement will be sticky. What if my first impression is for a dickish reminder about mass nouns or a jab against the GqP? I love this part.
Please tell me there’s a tag that says “80% horseshit but occasionally a mild zinger or honest comment” to put up near my name. We all can’t be consistently awesome like FlyingSquid !
Tagged. ;)
YEAH?! WELL YOU CAN KISS MY-
Oh, sorry. Thanks!
Ooooo, now thats neat. Yeah, def gonna flip that one back on.
Really appreciate the info.
User tagging was what I was waiting for to try Voyager again (I prefer tagging users over blocking them), but per-user vote tracking was the killer feature I wanted an app to have.
I guess this is goodbye, Boost. Time to write a user tag import script!
Yep! But if you’d like to disable it just go to Settings > User Tags > and toggle off “Track Votes”
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?
Make sure to also hit the tip button! Let’s keep aeharding motivated to keep improving Lemmy for us.
Thank you! 💜
What y’all tagging me as?
Oh hell yes.
Thank you! Voyager is awesome.
e: Ooh – I just noticed the user vote counts are colour coded, too. Nice touch!
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 :'3nvm 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!
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.
Why not use UnifiedPush?
I’m not super familiar with UnifiedPush, but it seems like you still need a server to send those notifications. Unless the Lemmy instances themselves start sending them, they have to come from somewhere.
I think that’s what Lemmy is looking to add support for soonish.
The app can work in the background and periodically check for new messages, just like email clients do with IMAP accounts.
Which would be a pull, not a push.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
