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Experimental Piefed support is now available for Voyager (vger.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by aeharding@vger.social to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Amazing thanks!! Seems to mostly be working for me.

@aeharding@vger.social I think I found a bug though:
Posts on https://piefed.social/c/southafrica don't load in the app

[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Piefed.ca works now! As of 704

Thanks for all your hard work

aeharding@vger.social

[–] compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

That was a major hurdle for me too

[–] FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.social 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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).

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Great!

[–] FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 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.

[–] Teal@piefed.zip 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] sprite0@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

NICE!!!!!!!

[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 4 points 6 days ago (29 children)

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?

[–] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I did an upgrade last night, but just did another one again. Try now?

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[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

Great! I can make the switch off lemmy now!!

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/comment/17560383

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Thanks for the call out! Time to test this out

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