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1y ago

Voyager (fka wefwef) now available at m.lemmy.world

Voyager is a beautiful mobile web client for Lemmy. Enjoy a seamless experience browsing the fediverse.

We've installed Voyager and it's reachable at https://m.lemmy.world, you can browse Lemmy, and login there (also if your account isn't on lemmy.world)

PS Thanks go out to @stux@stux@geddit.social , he came up with the idea (see https://m.geddit.social).

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Updated Voyager to 0.23.1 on m.lemmy.world

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Voyager @lemmy.world

Voyager (fka wefwef) now available at m.lemmy.world

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This is a great idea, Voyager’s mobile experience is super polished.
Long shot, but would it be possible to get Mlmym installed at old.lemmy.world? Would be a fun throwback!
- Ohhh... maybe...
  
  old.lemmy.world would be hilarious given that lemmy.world is only one month old
  
  you might aswell go crazy and do LemmyBB too https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB
  
  This would be incredible. I've already been directing other redditors here with a screenshot of the mlmym front end.
- Let's be careful with having too many frontends though. Are we sure it underwent proper security audit? Even lemmy-ui hasn't yet and it was a victim of an embarrassing XSS attack.
- Wow that’s cool! 🤞for old.Lemmy.world
- I wonder when the same happens with a project for new.lemmy.world xD
- PLEASE
- Are there any instances with that front end deployed rn?
  
  https://old.lemmings.world
- Nice idea! Just stole that xd 🤦 Here's old.lemy.lol!
- That’s nice!
- This would be amazing.

Gotta say, it's weird seeing a iOS interface on an Android device XD, but it feels very smooth and polished, especially for a web app.
- Oh, that's why the interface felt so weird.
  
  Did it feel weird? I had Apollo when I was on iOS and I felt it pretty great.
- It's a great app but the iOS interface is keeping me from really using it. It just doesn't feel natural on Android.

Oh, thank god they changed the name.

What a great idea! My favorite app paired with my favorite instance is a match made in heaven! lol. Thanks Ruud!

Voyager is, by far, the best lemmy experience I've tried. Hiding posts is a godsend. And they did all this as a web app?? Impressive!
- And they did all this as a web app??
  A lot of things that used to require native apps Android/ iOS / Windows / Mac can now be done as a web app which is easy because it means you don't need to compile the code four times.
- Does anyone know how the hiding is implemented?
  Will they still be hidden if I look at lemmy through my instance directly?
  
  It is not connected to the Lemmy account... I used their URL "vger.app" at first, but then lemmy.world implemented it themselves. When I logged in over that URL, I had to "rehide" the topics.
  Sorry, I don't know the specifics.

also if your account isn’t on lemmy.world
To clarify, the login details only go through your server, right?
- I'm fairly sure Voyager is a fully client-side app that can use the API from any instance directly no matter where it's hosted. Someone correct me if I'm wrong
  
  The devs themselves said they need to proxy information including password through their servers due to how cors works. But people are saying that this may be resolved somehow, so idk.

While I do love the quick innovation and updates of Lemmy, I have to admit that it's a bit confusing and hard to keep up with.
- It will start to stabilize eventually, but we're probably not going to see that anytime soon!

It was working great yesterday and earlier today, but now when I am on there it shows me as logged out, and then when I log in it says it's successful, but then shows me as logged out still. They keyboard is also not working when trying to enter my user name, I had to paste it.
- There’s ongoing Lemmy.world authentication issues. Should be resolved once Ruud gets online.
- I'm having lots of problems too. Even native client apps are giving me trouble. Must be lemmy.world having issues.
  
  Its lemmy.world They updated the version to 0.4.2 today and were getting issues. Join a different instance
- I am using connect for Lemmy and I cannot login either, so I think is an overall problem
  
  Same here. I swear lemmy.world is the most problematic instance I am encountering so far.

Problem is deeplinks such as https://m.lemmy.world/post/1291838 don’t work
- They do work but they're structured differently: https://m.lemmy.world/posts/feddit.de/c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world/comments/1477069
  Edit: Nevermind. Voyager seems to handle their route state in a weird way. Refreshing this while logged in works while the link does not work for third parties.
  
  It works if you're logged out. If logged in, all requests must be proxied through your own instance, and post IDs vary per instance.
  In the future, it might not force a redirect and show you content for a logged out/"roaming" state, but not now
  
  So... They don't work?

Aaannnnddd I'm back. Was on wefwef but went to Jerboa and then connect. But I think I'll stay at voyager as it's definitely the most polished so far.

What is the difference between wefwef and m.lemmy.world?
- btw, wefwef is called Voyager now.
  Just because it had to be more confusing 😅
  Sorry!
  
  Interesting. Seems the name was the worst thing about it. It put me off.
  
  Thank god, such an awful name.
- wefwef is an app, a webapp. Usually reachable under wefwef.app
  You can install it as a progressive webapp through your browser.
  This now is rehosting the files of wefwef on the m.lemmy.world domain, basically a fork that promises to keep in sync with the official codebase and the official domain. ~~The m.lemmy.world domain shouldn't need any connection to lemmy.world, it is basically not much different to a filehoster that hosts an apps apk~~. That is why I don't think m.lemmy.world even sees your credentials if you log in anywhere.
  As to why, I'm not sure what the use of this is. Maybe in case the official domain goes offline?
  
  That's because when you use wefwef through wefwef.app, your data goes through wefwef.app before going to the instance, the app AFAIK does not communicate directly with the instances yet. You basically have to decide whether you trust wefwef.app enough to proxy your data through them.
  Using m.lemmy.world would mean your data goes through lemmy.world directly, which you already chose to trust.

It's nice to see this officially hosted for lemmy.world users. I've been curious about wefwef but there was no way I was going to enter my creds into a third-party proxy. It feels much better to do so via an instance hosted by the world admins where my Lemmy account is though.
FYIW, when you save this as a PWA via Firefox mobile, the name is just "voyager", which I assume makes it hard to distinguish from the voyager instance hosted by its devs. I don't think this can be changed as a user (unless I'm too dumb to figure it out). If the PWA app name can be changed server side, might be good to call it Voyager World or something.

Sweet! I've been doing the same for a week or two at https://app.thelemmy.club
I just disabled the "other" login feature so it only works on thelemmy.club

I have already been using Voyager, do I need to do anything different since my account is on lemmy.world?
- You can login using your lemmy.world details on Voyager
  
  I can already login to lemmy.world using Voyager though

@sunaurus@lemm.ee is this something you’d consider for lemm.ee?
- you can log into lemm.ee through this website!
  
  True but my login info would be stored in lemmy.world and not my home instance.

@sunaurus@lemm.ee could we get this, please? It would be so nice!
- You can use vger.app, which is exactly same app.
  
  Yes, it would just be cool for it to be a subdomain of lemm.ee

Does it update at the same cadence as the original?
- Currently I need to manually update the container but I might install watchtower
  
  Yeah I just installed watchtower and that sorted out the updates
  
  Are you planning on disabling “Other” logins from this? I wouldn’t blame you if you did but at the same time, I’d keep using the vger URL for the purposes of how I’m using it.
  
  Minor nitpick, but isn't a moderator icon redundant for an admin?

Anyone else unable to update to 0.19/0.20? I’m on 0.18.2 and the updates aren’t showing.
- For this installation, I think the Admin needs to run the update manually, until he gets around to automating it.
- I was unable to update from like 0.14.* to 0.18.* or some similar difference of versions, deleting the cookies helped me actually. Might want to try that.
  
  Unfortunately this didn’t work. I can’t use this website until updates are implemented the same way.
- 0.18.2 is the most recent version...
  
  That would be 0.20

@ruud@lemmy.world, @aeharding@lemmy.world, @stux@geddit.social - Are there any instructions on how to set this up for my own instance? 😁
- Should all be here! https://github.com/aeharding/voyager#self-host-docker-deployment
  
  Thank you very much! Keep up the awesome work!

Updated to .22
- @ruud experiencing connection issues
  
  I think this was the ddos attack lemmy.world was experiencing
- @ruud seems I’ve lost access to lemmy.world after this update, but through website and Voyager

I seem to be having some luck when I clear website data / cache.

Awesome! Question, I made an account at the beginning of the month on Lemmy.World but I never got the verification email... Is there a way to get it re-sent?
- It works for any instance though, not only lemmy.world.
  
  Huh, ok, I tried logging into other instances with that email and they worked but when I came back to lemmy.world it told me I needed a verification email. So there isn't a way to re-send it is there?

This is really nice!

Is there a way to change the comment sorting in Voyager? On the desktop and in the old mobile app, I preferred the "Top" sorting for comments (it's annoying that I can't set this as a default, but I'm assuming that'll get fixed in time). But when I go to Voyager, I can't figure out how to change comments away from the default sort. Is it possible to change the comment sort order in Voyager? Is it in a menu I haven't checked yet? Some button I thought did something else?

Best idea ever !

Just saw this, that's very cool! will be trying it out

This is awesome :) Thank you!

Very cool! Given the separation between lemmy's backend and frontend, I'm guessing this is relatively easy to do (?) which means theoretically many instances could have a whole range of frontends built in from which the user could chose as they like?

This is awesome!!!

wow nice!!

Nice work! Really fun to see everything getting better and better!

@ruud what’s the advantage of this than accessing it via Google?

@ruud, any chance we can get voyager updated. Post editing has been added in .20 and it can’t be done in .18.2

First step to log in is to paste some URL - and https://lemmy.world/ doesn't work for that... another hurdle to exclude anyone not advanced enough?

That iOS UI though... No, thanks.
- As an Android user who got used to MaterialYou the "cold" iOS UI really looks jarring. But it's impressive nonetheless what they accomplished with a web app.
  
  Yes, but it's too out of place.

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