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  • You should give the issue an upvote, right now it has zero upvotes. :)

    As for why it isn’t merged in yet, is because it is a PR for a user submitted issue that hasn’t been fully triaged yet. For example, should avatars also be added to profile, autocomplete, post details, account selector etc, should avatars be animated, or frozen etc

    I do need to revisit that PR and issue though, there have just been other priorities (again, upvote the issue if you want it)










  • It’s planned via https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2631 once lemmy supports.

    Without that, there’s two ways to do this with major drawbacks:

    • Background tasks (android supported-ish with iOS support only with app open): Apps like Thunder are doing partial implementations by essentially polling the lemmy server in the background. I don’t think this is very neighborly because it puts a strain on Lemmy instances with the polling per account every 15 mins. It also consumes more battery. And is not consistent depending on Android device manufacturer.
    • Storing JWTs on a server: Some apps do this, but this is a nonstarter for me due to security/liability reasons

    So IDK. Right now I feel pressure to do this because other apps support but the ways they are accomplishing this are pretty questionable.






  • Thanks

    I did a bit of research and it looks like in order to play videos with redgifs I’d have to apply for an api key.

    Currently, Voyager (the app) never calls any endpoint that I own. There’s no phone home at all in Voyager unlike some other Lemmy apps. Adding redgif support would mean that Voyager would have to phone home to get a client token because thats how the redgifs api works.

    Redgif also state in their api agreement that they have the right to start charging money for api access at any time.

    You can probably see why I’m wary for adding support :)