Voyager is cool, we have home, all and local. I would like a news sort option or at least be able to put any post with a news story link in its own category.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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It can also be viewed as an Apollo replacement if you fled Reddit like I did.
If it had a split screen view on iPad, posts on a side bar and content on the main screen, I would be so happy.
Most of them can't do the basic formatting of Lemmy, so in my mind, they are basically useless.
**Bold**
Bold
*Italic*
Italic
^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~
^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~
~~Strike-through~~
~~Strike-through~~
spoiler
Soiled
spoiler
SoiledVoyager supports all of these apart from spoilers.
You'd think they would have worked on the spoiler one first, slightly more important than making your text look interesting.
They seem to be having some difficulties but it is being worked on: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/9
I think it's because spoiler tags in lemmy have been custom-made for some reason, whereas all the other stuff is standard markdown. Voyager is a web app, so it can maybe only render whatever the engine it relies on can render.
Edit: Turns out I'm 2 for 2 on making incorrect statements in this comment.
I’m pretty sure spoiler tags are just not part of the markdown specification. This would mean it’s probably easy enough for an application developer to just take the raw comment and pass it to what I assume would be a markdown rendering library (haven’t done app dev much), but spoiler tags won’t work without some additional work.
A quick Google suggests you're correct - big sites have implemented their own versions, but it looks like everyone has spent the last decade arguing with other about a CommonMark standard.
Yeah, this. Remark, the markdown library Voyager uses, is very powerful but also extremely complex (it has to be, to deal with Markdown edge cases).
I made a bit of progress last week on a custom plugin but it’s a lot of work. There’s like 4 layers of parsing required.
I wish Lemmy used GFM spoilers, which just uses normal details and summary html tags. But alas.
It’s really annoying there’s no standard markdown syntax in common mark.
It’s not just a web app anymore.
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Voyager does bold and italic without needing to know those, but yea it would be nice to ^add^ the ~others~ you listed ~~without~~ the syntax. It also does crossposting, text faces (/¯ ಠ_ಠ)/¯ share comments and posts as images, preview,
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, auto finding communities and users sorted by most pustular, porting subs from Reddit to communities, etc.
Arctic had all these covered. It’s not perfect but my fave so far
Boost did not do superscript and spoiler for some reason.
Eternity works for all of them except spoilers
Raccoon managed everything but the sub/superscript. Not too shabby!
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Something thats missing is the ability for mixed sort types. For example. Sort by Hot and every 4th posts be a New Comments post. With the ability to customize this to your preference
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How could it be the perfect lemmy app when it only runs on iOS or respectively only runs on Android?
Because cross-platform apps inevitably feel out of step with the OS they run on. Native apps can use system components and behaviors and will almost always run better because they don't need to be wrapped in a cross-platform framework. Admittedly a platform-locked app isn't going to be a universally perfect Lemmy app, but it can certainly be a platform-specific perfect Lemmy app.
With no disrespect to Voyager, its devs, or its users, this is why I can't use that app despite its impressive feature set and high level of polish--the ui feels fundamentally wrong on iOS, and the fact that it's a very direct Apollo clone but not written in native swift makes it feel like a knockoff.
Well, it could launch on one platform first, doesn’t mean it’s only going to be for one platform.
I would say Eternity (based on Infinity) but reread and saw you're on ios. If you want to escape the Apple-like design then you don't have much of a choice.
Arctic for Lemmy is the best one I have tried for iOS so far.
I know the title is iOS specific and not Android, I use Jerboa that works amazing for my needs. It's lightweight, simple, supports dark mode, has card mode (thumbnail only, no inline preview) and reminds me enough of QuantumBadger's RedReader.
What I still need is:
- To be able to save comments when I back out of the reply screen so that I can return to them. (The biggest want, I know some apps have that already)
- To be able to play videos a little better...
- To be able to do a search for anything other than communities
- To be able to initiate crossposts and view crossposts
- To be able to preload comments and view them offline when I have intermittent connection (I like to ride trains through wilderness).
I know various apps have these features, haven't heard if there's one for Android that does what I like about Jerboa but also has the listed extras, but that is what would be ideal for me.
I like Thunder but it doesn't pass the formatting test.
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I'm a big fan of sync EXCEPT redgifs don't work and it's driving me nuts.
Not to be horny on main but it is an issue lol.
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Most lemmy apps do not embed videos/gifs and have to open them on the in-app browser. The only ones I know that can do it are Arctic and Avelon, of which the latter put scrubbing behind a paid subscription. So Arctic is one of my top lemmy apps, even though Thunder is my favorite for general browsing.
Another minor issue for me is almost every app tries to look like Apollo, so they end up all looking the same. It’s one of the reasons I like Thunder because it looks a little different.
Infinity is the best one in my opinion
I would really like to help any of the existing clients to integrate the reddit-to-lemmy community map from https://fediverser.network. Voyager sort of has this functionality with the "migrate subreddits", but it does a very simple comparison of the community names.
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