Hi there! I’ve received a few requests, so I’ve created a Patreon page for Voyager.

This adds an additional option, alongside Github Sponsors, Liberapay and in-app donations.

Thanks again to everyone that supports Voyager! 💙


While I have you here, let me show off a few of the new features from the release earlier today!

Random Community Button

Find new communities, randomly! Pull to refresh to find a new random one with ease.

Launch native app if available

Currently, if you tap a Youtube link, it will open Youtube in the in-app browser. (And same with news apps, etc.) Now, by default, it will open the app, if installed.

You can easily flip this off in Settings to get the old behavior (“Prefer Opening Native Apps”).

Shortcut to copy text

If you want to copy all post/comment text, there is now a handy copy icon in the header of the sheet!

Android navbar style updates

I’ve tweaked Android navbar styles to make them a little nicer.

aeharding purple highlight

My username is now purple, so you can easily identify me as the Voyager dev

iOS Cache Clearing

You can now clear iOS cache for Voyager (native app only). Please note: It will not clear everything - iOS seems to keep 100mb around, without a way to clear. Other apps I checked seem to have the same issue.

Comments theme

You can now style the comments theme!

  • @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    updates app

    clears cache

    Hello there newly freed 1.8GB. Hoping this helps with the frequent reloading Voyager has been doing lately.

    Edit: nope, still reloaded after loading a few dozen posts over the course of an hour or so.

    Thanks for all the hard work! (This is genuine, wanted to clarify after adding my edit)

    • @aehardingOPM
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      9 months ago

      Thanks 😊

      Regarding the reloading, what’s your phone model and iOS version?

      • @[email protected]
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        49 months ago

        14 pro, 17.4. To clarify, when I say it reloads, the app blanks and then loads the default screen (home in my case). This is relatively new behavior that persists through phone restarts and force-quitting the app. Was present on 17.3 at least, not sure what Voyager version this popped up on. I want to say that this replaced other apps reloading more frequently when Voyager was open for awhile but I have nothing concrete.

        Regarding the cache, it only increased about 50MB between clearing and the next forced reload.

        • @aehardingOPM
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          49 months ago

          Hmm. The good news is that this issue is known and the ionic/stencil team is looking into it.

          The bad news, I don’t think it should be reloading that often. By reloading do you mean coming back from the background, or while you’re browsing?

          • @[email protected]
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            19 months ago

            While browsing. The most recent event was tapping on a post in All, and got booted back to Home.

            One recent change that happened on my end was that I added third instance to the user menu. Not sure if that would exacerbate the known issue or not.

  • @[email protected]
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    79 months ago

    Great work as always reading your git repo is entertainment enough . Do take some rest tho and don’t try to burn yourself out.

    • @aehardingOPM
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      39 months ago

      Awesome thanks!! 🙏

  • @RookiA
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    69 months ago

    Here you go! Have my 5€ ;D

    • @aehardingOPM
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      49 months ago

      Thanks Rooki 😛

  • Poslovitch
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    59 months ago

    @aeharding My my, and I read that right after reading a toot from @NSFVoyager2 : what the hell is the NASA willing to achieve with a Patreon for a spacecraft that left Earth 40 years ago 😅

  • kryllic
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    49 months ago

    Love the additional Apollo-like dev user color. Great updates all around yet again!

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      Might be my favorite part of the update. But the text copy button and the open in native app features are great too.

  • Nix
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    9 months ago

    Awesome! Ill be supporting soon please make a couple different tiers like $2 $10 and $15. How do you make that button so it shows Patreon with the number of supporters?