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.
In my mind, Voyager was always on the forefront with features compared to other Lemmy clients. I’m surprised it took this long to implement this!
Still, nothing but grateful for the Voyager devs.
I know Christian (the OG Apollo Dev) was not happy about Voyager, but their work has been stellar imo. Loving the work, and keep it up.
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.
Ooooo, now thats neat. Yeah, def gonna flip that one back on.
Really appreciate the info.
Yep! But if you’d like to disable it just go to Settings > User Tags > and toggle off “Track Votes”
there is no push notification and widget like original Apollo
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.
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.
TIL iOS finally got widget support a few years ago
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.
The fact that I just spend 30 seconds after tapping this post to actually see the comments load in say otherwise.
And no, it’s not my internet. 250mb/s uplink should be enough, thank you. Seems to be enough for everything besides this app.
Never encountered such issues myself. Perhaps it is related to your instance?
