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.

  • FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    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?).

    • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      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.socialEnglish
        6·
        19 hours ago

        Yesterday I merged in a PR that lets the instance admin set the sizes for thumbnails.

        But the real issue is that the thumbnails have a variety of uses - in the PieFed web UI thumbnails are shown quite small so 170px is fine. But some mobile apps might show the thumbnail in a manner that spans the whole screen which is going to need to be at least 350px wide.

        I’ll make PieFed generate a 500px version of the thumbnail and include that in the API response (as well as the smaller one).

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    52·
    4 days ago

    Edit glad to see rolling release of version 3.14, if there is anything irrational about it don’t worry it will periodically resolve.

    • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
      24·
      4 days ago

      Thanks! to everyone that supports Voyager ^^

      Don’t forget to support your instance/piefed/lemmy/etc too!

    • DeadPixel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      16·
      4 days ago

      Thanks for the reminder, I just tipped via ‘settings > Support Voyager’ in-app. Been meaning to for a while anyway, but this deserves reward.

    • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Do they even get enough donations to pay for the $100/year Apple developer account fee?

      • arrow74@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I’d hope so. I’d imagine at least 100 people are giving a dollar

  • mintiefresh@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    4 days ago

    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 :)

  • compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    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!

    • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
      21·
      4 days ago

      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

  • Curious Canid@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    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.)

  • Teal@piefed.zipEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    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.