I’m excited to announce that Voyager now has experimental support for logging in with Piefed! You can try it out today on:
This will roll out to the official app stores and vger.app soon™, once I’m confident there are no major regressions. If you prefer not to switch to beta builds, just hang tight.
Please note that Piefed support is EXPERIMENTAL! There are still many things that don’t work quite right, which I’m hoping to improve over the coming weeks.
The basics including scrolling home/all/local, viewing posts, blocking, commenting and voting should work well. However there are some known issues:
- Can’t sign up for a Piefed account in-app, only log in with an existing one
- Subscribed communities list is empty (should be fixed soon!)
- Inbox tab doesn’t load
- Comment search doesn’t work
- Profile upvoted/downvoted doesn’t load
- No moderation tools
- Mark as read doesn’t persist
- Creating/editing posts is currently untested
- …probably a bunch of other stuff too, please let me know below!
Behind the scenes, this interoperability is made possible thanks to aeharding/threadiverse, a new library I am working on to normalize various threadiverse-software APIs. It’s open source so any project use it, but it’s under heavy development right now. What’s cool about this is in the future, adding support for mbin, or whatever else is possible!
Again, feel free to try it out and let me know if there are any more issues to be documented and fixed.
I’ve noticed link images are very pixelated when browsing piefed (piefed.social specifically) but then same links look fine when browsing lemmy. I’m guessing this is a piefed side problem (or maybe an instance configuration choice?).
Yeah, piefed thumbnails are pretty small. I don’t know if that’s a per server config or not though. Probably something to ask the piefed devs
@rimu@piefed.social do you have any insight? Apologies if this is poor etiquette 😅
This is awesome, thank you for your hard work! Lack of Voyager support for Piefed was the only thing holding me back - piefed.blahaj.zone, here I come!
Edit glad to see rolling release of version 3.14, if there is anything irrational about it don’t worry it will periodically resolve.
Wow I did not expect this to happen so fast! How exciting!
Signed up and I’m just patiently waiting for the update to show up.
Thank you so much for doing this. I have always been so impressed with Voyager.
Really love seeing PieFed emerge and now apps adding support is great.
The fediverse is so cool. Time to make some donations :)
Is this the best place to talk about bugs or give feedback?
I finally got the update. The login screen is able to find Piefed servers but it fails to connect to them.
It says “Problem connecting to piefed.ca. Please try again.”
I tried the other Piefed servers for fun but they all gave the same result.
Oh actually piefed.blahaj.zone was recognized but that was the only one.
Let me know if you need any other info or if there’s elsewhere to post this style of thing.
Thanks again for everything!
FYI, @aeharding@vger.social is the main account
Oh thanks! I’ll change my comment to reflect that.
I have the same issue on android. Web app works like a charm.
Ah cool. I gave the web app a try and looks like all the piefed servers work except for piefed.ca lol. Lucky me.
It works for me now. Update and give it a try.
Nice.
Piefed.ca still not working for me.
I tried piefed.world … that doesn’t work either.
But .social, . zip and the others seem to be working so that’s good.
Lol. I know it’ll get working soon.
Exciting times though.
I wasn’t able to get logged in either.
piefed.ca is running slightly outdated version, hopefully that’s fixed soon :)
piefed.social should connect, that is what I used to test. Are you seeing issues with that instance?
Fuck yeah! More donations coming your way, dude.
Thanks! to everyone that supports Voyager ^^
Don’t forget to support your instance/piefed/lemmy/etc too!
Thanks for the reminder, I just tipped via ‘settings > Support Voyager’ in-app. Been meaning to for a while anyway, but this deserves reward.
great suggestion I just did the same
Do they even get enough donations to pay for the $100/year Apple developer account fee?
I’d hope so. I’d imagine at least 100 people are giving a dollar
That is great! I haven’t really adopted PieFed yet, but I am trying it and I would love to have the same client for both.
I love literally everything about this announcement.
I want to try other fedi platforms but have MAJOR inertia thanks to apps.
So I’m fucking thrilled the one I prefer also wants to prefer all the things
Brb ima spin up an account. I fucking love you voyager, and everything your team does (I assume it’s a team? If not I love you very specifically. Yes you. I love you.)
💜
And happy 🍰 day!
Happy cake day!
Hey thanks, I didn’t realize! Two years is a long time on such a new platform and I’m super here for it!
NICE!!!
Great work on the threadiverse interoperability library!
Thanks! It wasn’t part of the original plan, but I was working on lemmy v1 support and realized there was a lot of breaking changes to the API, and I wanted to support piefed down the road anyways… so perfect storm
Exciting news! Posting from the PWA now. 🎉
If I’m not mistaken when you install the TestFlight version it replaces the stable App Store version. For those with the App Store version installed you can use the PWA at the same time without disturbing your main setup.
Backing up settings and restoring them works too. Just mentioning an another way in case it helps someone.
Great news!
Amazing !
Great news, congratulations!
Thanks rimu!
Thanks for the call out! Time to test this out
Great! I can make the switch off lemmy now!!