Experimental Piefed support is now available for Voyager
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.
Edit glad to see rolling release of version 3.14, if there is anything irrational about it don't worry it will periodically resolve.
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 :)
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 wasn’t able to get logged in either.
FYI, @aeharding@vger.social is the main account
piefed.ca is running slightly outdated version, hopefully that's fixed soon :)
piefed.social should connect, that is what I used to test. Are you seeing issues with that instance?
Amazing !
Great news, congratulations!
Thanks rimu!
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.)
💜
And happy 🍰 day!
Happy cake day!
Hey thanks, I didn’t realize! Two years is a long time on such a new platform and I’m super here for it!
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!
That was a major hurdle for me too
Thanks for posting.
Logs in, loads up, shows my profile, hangs when I go to posts page. True for piefed.social on beta and android apps just now .
Lemmy.world seemed to work fine.
Should work fine, hmm what is your sort set to on that page?
Seeing same at beta.vger.app/posts/piefed.soc… on firefox + chrome PC desktop browsers now.
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.
Great news!
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.
NICE!!!!!!!
Hot Diggity Daffodil!
Uploading an image for a post seems to fail.
Problem uploading image: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'url'). Please try again.
(Also, it case it wasn't obvious, this is most excellent news! HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE thanks to aeharding!)
Works now, I'll get it fixed tonight :)
edit: fix deploying!
I'm not sure PieFed supports uploading images? I haven't been able to find that option on the web version.
Is there a way to access it with Obtainium (e. g. github project releases) or F-droid?
Thanks this is a great project.
Yes, you can grab the latest apk from any commit to main, for example:
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/actions/runs/15814901858
Usually you can just use Obtainium with the latest release, but Piefed support hasn't had an actual release yet.
Great! I can make the switch off lemmy now!!
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🫡
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/comment/17560383Thanks for the call out! Time to test this out
This might be the wrong place to ask. But anyway, can someone please explain the difference between Lemmy and PieFed to me? I've searched a bit and it seems that both are doing roughly the same thing, but with a different fediverse protocol or something?
I've tested PieFed out for a bit, and I like what they have going on. It uses ActivityPub, just like Mastadon or Lemmy. It's mostly similar to Lemmy, but it has some additional features that are awesome:
- Feeds - In PieFed you can combine multiple communities into a single feed (makes it so much easier to browse through all of the different c/technology posts from Lemmy.world, lemmy.zip, Beehaw, programming.dev, etc.).
- Crosspost View - If a post has been crossposted, scrolling through the comments is organized into sections from each community that the post was crossposted into.
- Delayed posting - Set a future time for when you want your post/comment to be posted.
- Post tagging - Ability to tag a post as a spoiler, discussion, question/answered etc.
- Spoiler tags on a post blur out images.
- User tagging - Public tags for anyone to see.
Great news, and so fast! Is mbin-support in the cards some time in the future?
That's the goal. Especially since the compat lib is separate, I'm hoping to get it mature enough to the point that it could eventually be community maintained.
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.
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.
Thank you, found it, backed up.
