I love Voyager but despite its beautiful swipe settings I REALLY miss swipe right anywhere (not just from the left edge) to go back, like Apollo allowed for. Are there any plans to implement this? The Memmy app has this if you swipe on the bottom toolbar but it would be better to able to use it anywhere on the screen.

I really, really miss it from Apollo, and for example the new Artifact app (News reader) does this so perfectly.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•1 year ago

    Please bring this back. I’m a lurker on Lemmy, as I was on Reddit, 99.4% of my interactions are “go into topic” and “go back to feed”.

    I’ve searched high and low to replicate my Apollo browsing habits, and at the moment Liftoff! is the only app I’ve found that lets me full-post-swipe-back.

    Hopefully with the latest gesture customization implementation, it can be added.

    • @VubOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I also noticed that Liftoff is the only app that does it so it is the one I settled for for now. Even though Liftoff is not my favourite app otherwise, the swipe feature alone makes it the only really enjoyable app. It’s by far the most important user experience feature.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        Too right.

        Every now and then I check Voyagers progress, hoping to see full page gestures appear.

        • @VubOPEnglish
          1•10 months ago

          So here is an update in January 2024 to this issue. It seems as if this is still not possible in Voyager. :(

          However a bunch of other apps for iOS does it now, such as Memmy, Bean, Thunder and Avelon. So there are good alternatives. Just too bad Voyager is behind in usability, the app seems nice otherwise. Oh well.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 year ago

    I am probably totally wrong on this one because it is something that I think to vaguely remember… but didn’t this have anything to do with the fact that it is not a real app but a PWA, so it is not possible to implement it currently, but when Voyager will go full-app it will be possible?

      • @VubOPEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Thanks for clearing that up. I really hope they get it sorted out.

    • @VubOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Thanks for your input. Can someone confirm that this is the case? I find it hard to believe that only ‘back’ would be blocked by this but any other function works when swiping from anywhere but the edge. But you may be absolutely right. :)

        • @VubOPEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Glad to hear it’s possible.

          But sad that so far all Lemmy app developers didn’t do this as their first and prioritised gesture, IMO it’s by far the most important for a nice browsing experience.

      • silasEnglish
        0•1 year ago

        Technically should be possible, it’s just likely far more difficult to implement in a PWA because you have to handle conflicts with any other gestures and web-related things

        • @VubOPEnglish
          0•1 year ago

          But the gesture is already there, for example as a downvote/upvote, collapse or comment. It’s just not assigned to going back.