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Thank you! 💙

Now that I got your attention with that clickbait title..

Subscribe to !voyagerapp@lemmy.world!

But it's also true. This is the last release of wefwef. Tonight the app will be renamed, and all future releases will be Voyager!

Note: you don't need to do anything if you have the app installed. The app will continue to be named 'wefwef' on your homescreen until you reinstall.

So what's new for 0.17.0?

Block communities and users

It's here! You can now block users and communities! Just go to their page and tap the ellipsis in the header. Additionally, there's a new "Filters & Blocks" section to settings (applied per user)!

There's also an option to hide all NSFW content for your account!

Finally, it's now much easier to message users. Just tap on their profile and "Send Message"!

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Favorite communities

Favorite communities for them to be at the top of the community quick switcher and your communities list. So much easier than scrolling to find the communities you frequent most often! Thanks @httpjamesm for this feature that's been a long time coming.

To favorite (or unfavorite), just visit the community and tap the ellipse in the header.

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Bugs and other small enhancements!

Thanks to everyone that has helped and contributed! Check out the github release for all the other stuff that was completed. https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef/releases/tag/0.17.0

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Thanks, and see you on !voyagerapp@lemmy.world!

Hi there! First of all, I wanted to say thank you. Thanks for submitting bugs and PRs, sharing wefwef, and for the overwhelming kindness from everyone here. 💙 I would not be writing this post right now if it wasn’t for that.

I have a few important announcements in this thread, so please read on!

(TLDR subscribe to !voyagerapp@lemmy.world!)

The road to v1

Somehow, after only a few weeks, v1 is in reach! That being said, there are a few important features needed in order to get there:

1. Blocking and unblocking users and communities
2. Hide NSFW posts toggle
3. Community favorites
4. Better keyboard handling on comment and post dialogs
5. Workaround for light mode status bar on iOS
6. Direct connect to lemmy.world instead of proxy workaround

Keep in mind, v1 won’t be perfect. There will be bugs :) This is just the point at which we feel there is nothing critical outstanding.

Our new name: Voyager

Thanks so much for all of the really great and important points for either keeping wefwef or changing to Voyager. A recurring theme I heard is that while wefwef is a fun, unique name, Voyager is a more approachable name. To me, that’s important. I’ve decided on Voyager!

With that, I’m also happy to announce some new domain names!

• https://vger.app - Official web app deployment
• https://getvoyager.app - Official onboarding link (redirects to /settings/install, for now)

(Don’t worry, wefwef.app will continue working for the foreseeable future!)

And our new Lemmy community, !voyagerapp@lemmy.world

We will be transitioning to this new name effective Monday July 10 when the old wefwef community will be locked. Subscribe to !voyagerapp@lemmy.world!

App icon contest

EDIT: SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN! https://lemmy.world/post/1287799

As part of the v1 launch, I’m hoping to adopt a new community-driven app icon! 🥰 I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

What do I win??

wefwef \ahem\ Voyager is a free and open source project, so there isn't a cash prize or anything. But, credit to you will be officially in the app settings and the Github repo readme!

Submission deadline

On July 10th I will create a thread for submissions in !voyagerapp@lemmy.world. On July 16th, 10pm CT submissions will close (depending on submission volume, may be extended).

Selection process

I will lock the thread after the submission window and nominate 3 icons (see below tips for what I’m looking for). I’ll take into account votes and comments from people. :) If there are very few submissions, I may extend the window to submit. Shortly after, I’ll create another thread for the community to vote to choose one of the final three!

Tips

• I encourage you to make the app icon FUN and colorful! Give the app a soul that reflects the community driven nature of Lemmy and the greater Fediverse. Icons using the display-p3 colorspace are encouraged. I love how an interconnected rainbow represents the Fediverse, and I’d love to see your personal artistic style :)
• I am purposely allowing raster icons for this contest, because I think too many app icons look bland, generic and… well… corporate vector bleh. I love the fun style of these Fediverse illustrations by David Revoy: https://framablog.org/2022/12/08/framasoft-2022-a-casserole-cooked-up-thanks-to-you-thanks-to-your-donations/?print=print

Rules

• 3 submissions max per artist
• Please, no submissions resembling the Apollo icon (sorry!) to respect Apollo’s app icon branding
• For each submission, required assets:
  • (For contest submission)
    • Single 512x512 square PNG designed for iOS should be in your comment. (If you have an iOS device, I recommend this site to test)
    • Optional sentence or two explaining your icon
  • (Upon being selected)
    • 1024x1024 PNG or SVG iOS app icon.
    • 1024x1024 PNG or SVG “maskable” variant for Android app icon. Tips here: https://web.dev/maskable-icon
    • BONUS/OPTIONAL Splash screen image - Design a full screen app launch screen that is maskable to fit various device aspect ratios. This is totally optional.
• Your work should be licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, or less restrictive. :)

That's all! Thanks for reading this far! 💙

P.S. Did I mention subscribe to !voyagerapp@lemmy.world?

Remember that bookmark icon that literally did nothing? Well, now it does something  😅 Thanks to xBracey for this!

So go ahead and save posts and comments for later, and since they are saved to your lemmy account, they'll show up on other clients that support saving, too!

In the future, configurable swipe gestures will support swipe-to-save as well!

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First, features...

Swipe to hide!

This is a huge feature that has a lot of effort put into making it work flawlessly, even with hundreds of thousands of hidden items. So swipe away! All data is persisted locally per account. In the future, we'll add hide on scroll, and it should work really well with our performant storage implementation. Shoutout to burakcan for all your hard work on this :)

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2166114/250740778-8fe56694-b5f8-4a03-9070-f02f32a0614c.mp4

Comment dialogs now ask for confirmation before nuking your data

I can't tell you how much I hate software that loses your progress. When the new comment dialog was implemented, I though there would be about 5 people using wefwef, but now there are tons of you!

Care was taken to ensure you can continue to swipe away the comment dialog if no new content has been entered - for example, if you accidentally swipe to reply.

Care was also taken to confirm before closing a tab or navigating on desktop devices! So please try it out and let me know what you think!

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Like browsing NSFW on iOS? This release is for you

Blurred items should be a LOT more snappy, now that blurring is being performed by the GPU.

MORE SPEED

More performance improvements thanks to a code refactor on how we present commonly used dialogs :)

Double tap search shortcut!

No longer reach all the way up to that search bar. 😎

ARM builds

I love seeing all the self-hosting! Now you can easily self-host wefwef on even more devices!

Special thanks to all contributors!

Crazybus, burakcan and aidankinzett! Thank you! 💙

Go check it out, it's pretty cool. It also shows a check mark which is a nice visual cue for sorting.

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btw, are there any graphic designers here with experience with SVGs? If we want to make this feature even better, we need custom calendar icons!

https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef/issues/197

I've heard a lot of people want to change app names. Which I'm totally fine with! I've heard a lot of love for the name "Voyager"

So, thoughts? Do you prefer renaming? Do you like the name "Voyager"? Any other good ideas?

Comment below!

Hi there! So there's been a ton of work by a bunch of developers that are really frustrated with Apollo going away end of month.

That's why I created (yet another) Apollo-like Lemmy client called wefwef - https://wefwef.app.

Right now it's targetting iOS - you can still use it on Android phones, but it's untested. An Android theme is in the works!

So, why wefwef?

• Progressive web app — It's easy to try, and works cross platform. Get the same experience on your phone, tablet and computer. If you like it, add to home screen for a like-native experience.
• Open source! Self hosting and hacking is totally doable

There's a TON of work to be done, but the basics are there (browsing, commenting and voting). More to come soon! Let me know what you think.

https://wefwef.app

!wefwef app screenshots