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Voyager hands down
https://vger.app/
Took a look and love it, mostly because it looks like an iOS app but on Android. I've really missed iOS app design and this is just refreshing lol.
At least in iOS, it reminds me a lot of what used to be the Apollo app for Reddit. Voyager is fantastic and currently includes working, but limited Piefed compatibility.
Voyager is a direct copy of Apollo. Which is good because Apollo was awesome on iOS before Reddit forced it and many other apps to cease development. Assholes
For me it reminds more of some rather spartan apps that are economic with their interface — namely RedReader for Reddit. No fluff in the UI. Which is why I like both these apps, however Voyager would be better if it was implemented natively instead of in React or whatever it uses.
There's a problem that it seems to use a lot of memory, because it's a web browser in disguise. As a consequence, any time another app needs memory, Voyager is killed by Android and starts again from the main page, forgetting what I was doing. Oftentimes it's enough to switch to the actual browser and back again for Voyager to restart, which is ironic for a link-aggregator app.
Its animations are janky for the same reason, and get in the way of some functionality like collapsing comments.
Voyager's UI is great, mainly because it's not flashy, but a native app with that UI would be a lot better. RedReader for Reddit is much smoother to use.
I think they do that so it can be accessed on as many platforms as possible. If the dev had to maintain the website and an ios and android app, they'd probably just shut down the android app since it has less users
That's understandable, but the result is what it is. Plus, native apps seem to have built-in remedy for being kicked out of the memory, in that the stack of activities is remembered and the input is kept, so after a brief loading screen I'm back to where I was and can back out through the previous screens too. Voyager should probably explicitly implement something like this.
I'm quite happy with Voyager, never used anything else.
Maybe you should use something else in order to see the larger picture. It‘s hard to know what you really want when you don‘t compare.
I tried blorp, and voyager is much better
What was the dealbreaker with Blorp and how can I make it better?
The biggest two things is that the profile button is all the way up in the top right corner, away from the thumbs, which is inconvenient if you want to find your past posts / comments.
I do really like the color scheme of blorp, especially the color of the heart for a liked post! And I still use it daily because Voyager doesn't support piefed. Thank you for writing your software, giving it away for free, AND listening to users!
That says more than you might know, respectfully.
How do I enable seeing downvotes weighted against upvotes in it? It doesn‘t do it on iOS on default which is weird.
Settings > Appearance > Other > Display votes
I prefer seperate
Thank you!
Nah hands up definitely
You mean the app that inserts ads to itself into links you share, by default? Yes it can be switched off but why does this need to be there in the first place?
Yeah, the one that gives a great deal of ways to customize sharing of links for those that aren't already using Lemmy Redirect.
Cool beans. Not what I mentioned. But I am not trying to change your mind either.
It is related to how sharing links is handled especially in the Fediverse where anything could be on a different server and who you are sending it to could likely be on a different server. Not trying to change your mind about Voyager, but that's the reason why it is the way it is. It was really aggravating in the early days of the 3rd party app rexodus when opening a link would instead open a web link to said server in a browser instead of in app if you wanted to interact.
Great. Now do me the favour, select the first option in that list ”Voyager app (vger.to)” and open a link shared like that it in a browser, not in Voyager (important, it might automatically do that for you since you got it installed) and tell me what you see. That is set as the default link sharing behaviour and that is what I am criticising.
Maybe you don't care about it and as a Voyager user you will never see that. But I care because I keep seeing more and more people sharing these links, which instead of actually linking me to the thread in question, in MY app of choice, lead to my browser opening, showing me the content plus a quick plug to the Voyager app.
I cared enough to change it to have it ask me everytime based on who or where I'm sending it.
I can't change what other people do, but if you want to bring it up with the dev at !voyagerapp@lemmy.world go for it.
Only issue, is sometimes the feed is blank if you refresh. It comes back if you wait a few minutes, but can get annoying.