Settled on Voyager months ago. Sometimes I wonder if I’m missing out on newer alternatives for iOS but Voyager does everything I need it to and has that comfortable, familiar Apollo aesthetic.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It had some glaring missing features when I started using it last year (like not* rendering spoilers) but it’s come a long way and gets actively worked on. I don’t think you’re missing out, but if you aren’t already in the Testflight Beta then that might scratch the itch of having the bleeding edge.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It's a shame. I'm using Voyager but it has some critical problems for me that make the experience unpleasant.

Biggest one would be it doesn't show the username of the poster of a post in any views but when viewing the post. This is important. Certain posters regularly post good, reliable, interesting, funny, etc content. Some I'm even friendly with. Others I know post frivolous things, post straight up fake-news and "jokes" so seeing their name clues me in I don't need to freak out about something upsetting because it's fake. And so on. Basically having the name displayed saves me a ton of time otherwise wasted going into lots of threads to see who posted it before backing out again and I'm sure there are plenty of threads I'd otherwise engage with which I don't because I can't see the username. There’s also the issue of seeing what instance a user is from. If they’re from a home instance dedicated to a certain thing (perhaps vetted individually) I feel differently than someone from an outside instance.

This was something reddit did on both old and new and it was correct to do so. It's also something I was used to with Apollo which I used for some time. It feels like half an experience without the user-names shown but I'm guessing it's an intentional choice on the part of the Voyager dev.

Second biggest one would be the upvote and downvote colors are reversed and it's messing with me but I could get over it.

If anyone knows any apps like Memmy or Voyager but with usernames always shown or an option to show them in the feed view I'd love to hear of it. I really like the aesthetic design of Memmy best but Voyager is close enough minus that one glaring issue.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Look on the bright side, at least you don’t see usernames that are offensive or disgusting!

[–] Dhrystone 1 points 2 years ago

Biggest voyager issue for me is complete lack of notifications.

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like there's only old posts from the dev here so I'd think so.

[–] AngryJadeRabbit@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I checked the git hub as well, everything seems to be 5 months old there too

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I’m suspecting so. I’m still using it though. You guys know of any nice alternatives ?

[–] MisterMoo@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I’m using Mlem on iOS and liking it.

[–] brenstar@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

Arctic it was I switched to and has been good.

[–] AngryJadeRabbit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I’m still using it too. I guess it’s time to start trying some of the others :/

[–] shrodes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I like Voyager but Thunder is also pretty solid

[–] loopy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Lemma seems to be pretty smooth. And Arctic is being updated pretty frequently with nice features.

[–] dvdnet62@feddit.nl 9 points 2 years ago

testflight account also have been removed

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Arctic is a nice native iOS app that’s frequently updated. It’s in the App Store and a TestFlight is available in the !arctic@lemmy.world community.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Arctic has been my go too as well

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

Damn, that makes me sad. I really like this app but I’m not surprised. The devs seemed to be burned out after the influx of users jumping ship from the old site.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh shit, didn’t realize. I’ve been using if the whole time and had been wondering if/when another update was coming.

[–] AngryJadeRabbit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I went looking for an update because my apps are set to manual updates. Downloaded Voyager, seems to be decent, but it is missing a few settings I liked.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Dang :( loved memmy, they made switching to lemmy extremely cozy for me. Thanks for your work <3

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m liking Bean.

[–] dvdnet62@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I saw bean community that app have been abandoned. no?

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, the dev accepted payments and then vanished.

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kind of what happened with Avelon too.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Glad I never paid for Avelon…

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Not sure. App still works and is listed in the App Store, though last update was 4 months ago. Seems like a lot of development is fizzling out after the Reddit migration.

Biggest thing for me in any app is being able to set swipe to go back to the feed for one handed browsing.