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Experimental Piefed support is now available for Voyager

UPDATE June 29: Piefed support is rolling out to the official store listings today in v2.37.0 🎉

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(tm), 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.

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  • 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 :)

    • @aeharding@vger.social

      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!

  • 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.)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I'm unable to log in with my existing piefed.ca account (which works with the interstellar app).

    No real explanation given, just a generic error.

    Haven't used voyager before, so it's not an older app or missing update, I went straight into the beta.

    • Piefed.ca may be running a slightly outdated build of Piefed, but it's hard to tell because Piefed isn't versioned yet. Do you know an admin you could ask?

      • Piefed.ca now upgraded to 1.0.0

        I believe they had just updated to 1.0.0 yesterday. And I believe this is the same version that piefed.social is running on as well.

        When I try using the web app version of the beta, I am able to see all the piefed servers (.social, .world, .blahaj.zone, etc) but I am still unable to connect to piefed.ca.

      • I think I'm on the same discord as one of the admins, let me check.

        I'm getting the same error with piefed.social though, just tested - I don't have an account there, but the error comes when I select the server, before even being promoted to enter my credentials.

  • 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

      • 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).

      • @rimu@piefed.social do you have any insight? Apologies if this is poor etiquette 😅

  • Trying iOS beta and it’s only seems to want me to create a new account when trying to add piefed.ca. I already have a piefed account.

    • Did you click this? You want to login, not join

      • Thank you I was picking the server 1st not login. Now it just keeps saying connection error (either way). Tried both username and email and pasted password cuz I am old with 2 cataracts ;-).

  • When I went to do the iOS TestFlight it asked me if I want to replace existing Voyager, you may loose all your data. I don’t want to lose my data. Can someone testing let me know if all your data does get deleted or not?

    • Before you install the TestFlight beta you can go to Voyager>Settings>Backup and Restore Settings. Save the .json in Files app and it can be used to put your App Store version back to how it is now. I’m not sure how well the import setting works in the TestFlight version so I can’t speak to that.

      Alternatively, you can keep the current app the way it is and install the beta PWA then use them simultaneously. You’ll have to adjust settings to your liking but this way if you decide not to continue using the beta you just delete the PWA.

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