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™, 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.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    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?

    • Teal@piefed.zipEnglish
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      4 days ago

      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.