Hi there! First of all, I wanted to say thank you. Thanks for submitting bugs and PRs, sharing wefwef, and for the overwhelming kindness from everyone here. 💙 I would not be writing this post right now if it wasn’t for that.

I have a few important announcements in this thread, so please read on!

(TLDR subscribe to !voyagerapp@lemmy.world!)

The road to v1

Somehow, after only a few weeks, v1 is in reach! That being said, there are a few important features needed in order to get there:

  1. Blocking and unblocking users and communities
  2. Hide NSFW posts toggle
  3. Community favorites
  4. Better keyboard handling on comment and post dialogs
  5. Workaround for light mode status bar on iOS
  6. Direct connect to lemmy.world instead of proxy workaround

Keep in mind, v1 won’t be perfect. There will be bugs :) This is just the point at which we feel there is nothing critical outstanding.

Our new name: Voyager

Thanks so much for all of the really great and important points for either keeping wefwef or changing to Voyager. A recurring theme I heard is that while wefwef is a fun, unique name, Voyager is a more approachable name. To me, that’s important. I’ve decided on Voyager!

With that, I’m also happy to announce some new domain names!

(Don’t worry, wefwef.app will continue working for the foreseeable future!)

And our new Lemmy community, !voyagerapp@lemmy.world

We will be transitioning to this new name effective Monday July 10 when the old wefwef community will be locked. Subscribe to !voyagerapp@lemmy.world!

App icon contest

EDIT: SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN! https://lemmy.world/post/1287799

As part of the v1 launch, I’m hoping to adopt a new community-driven app icon! 🥰 I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

What do I win??

wefwef *ahem* Voyager is a free and open source project, so there isn’t a cash prize or anything. But, credit to you will be officially in the app settings and the Github repo readme!

Submission deadline

On July 10th I will create a thread for submissions in !voyagerapp@lemmy.world. On July 16th, 10pm CT submissions will close (depending on submission volume, may be extended).

Selection process

I will lock the thread after the submission window and nominate 3 icons (see below tips for what I’m looking for). I’ll take into account votes and comments from people. :) If there are very few submissions, I may extend the window to submit. Shortly after, I’ll create another thread for the community to vote to choose one of the final three!

Tips

  • I encourage you to make the app icon FUN and colorful! Give the app a soul that reflects the community driven nature of Lemmy and the greater Fediverse. Icons using the display-p3 colorspace are encouraged. I love how an interconnected rainbow represents the Fediverse, and I’d love to see your personal artistic style :)
  • I am purposely allowing raster icons for this contest, because I think too many app icons look bland, generic and… well… corporate vector bleh. I love the fun style of these Fediverse illustrations by David Revoy: https://framablog.org/2022/12/08/framasoft-2022-a-casserole-cooked-up-thanks-to-you-thanks-to-your-donations/?print=print

Rules

  • 3 submissions max per artist
  • Please, no submissions resembling the Apollo icon (sorry!) to respect Apollo’s app icon branding
  • For each submission, required assets:
    • (For contest submission)
      • Single 512x512 square PNG designed for iOS should be in your comment. (If you have an iOS device, I recommend this site to test)
      • Optional sentence or two explaining your icon
    • (Upon being selected)
      • 1024x1024 PNG or SVG iOS app icon.
      • 1024x1024 PNG or SVG “maskable” variant for Android app icon. Tips here: https://web.dev/maskable-icon
      • BONUS/OPTIONAL Splash screen image - Design a full screen app launch screen that is maskable to fit various device aspect ratios. This is totally optional.
  • Your work should be licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, or less restrictive. :)

That’s all! Thanks for reading this far! 💙

P.S. Did I mention subscribe to !voyagerapp@lemmy.world?

  • radicalifidoit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    93·
    1 year ago

    Can’t wait to tell people years from now I used Voyager back when it was “wefwef.” Thanks for the great work so far and congrats on the change! 🫡

  • UhBell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    I exclusively use wefwef to interact with Lemmy and I’m excited to see how it progresses from here. Nothing short of incredible work on your part! I’ll absolutely be submitting icons to consider, and look forward to using v1 and beyond.

    Keep it up!!!

  • UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nlEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    there are a few important features needed in order to get there:

    Might I suggest (sorry that I keep nagging you):

    1. editing and deleting OPs

    IMO, I think this is an essential feature for version 1. I know little to nothing about app development, but it seems like a relatively simple upgrade to me.

    But it’s obviously just a feature request. You and the other devs are doing all the work and choose what you give priority.

    • fer0n@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I was a bit confused that that wasn’t already on the list. It’s the only reason why I have to keep going back to the website

      • UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nlEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I feel somewhat guilty that I mentioned it multiple times, because who am I to keep pushing on a feature?

        But indeed, it’s the only thing that requires me to go back to the website.

        What it shows (I think) is that there’s too much focus on content consumption and not enough on content creation. But Lemmy will not grow if the creation of content isn’t facilitated. Simply because there is nothing to consume.

  • Dick Justice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for the update, you guys are so amazing with the rapid updates!

    BOOOOOOOOO to the name change though! It’ll always be wefwef to me ;)

      • 𝓣𝓞𝓑𝓘𝓝@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I wish that I knew that, ha ha. I just wrote it out, then added a link. We know each other so I just showed him the comment.

        I tried googling it earlier, but couldn’t find anything :(

        • CoffeeDev@lemmy.studioEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          If you start to type @username@server in the default Lemmy web app it will give a list of users that roughly match what you typed, and if you choose one it will just add a link, so I think that that is actually the correct way to do it.

  • nocnoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    How can one switch from wefwef to voyager? Do I need to install a new webpage?

  • itadakimasu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    This is so great! I like the new name. Has been such a pleasure to use this app and fun to watch it’s development.

    One minor request if you can get to it: option to move thumbnails to the right side in compact view would be so helpful!

    ありがとう！

  • esty@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    great work!

    do you know if there’s a fix for not being able to “properly” install the PWA with chrome? (i used to be able to have it in my app drawer and show up with the rest of my apps, but now it only lets me add a browser shortcut)

      • esty@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        basically the bug was that even when you clicked to install the PWA, it wouldn’t show up in the app drawer as a regular app, you could only add it as a shortcut to the home screen (with an ugly chrome logo in the corner)

        it’s fixed in the latest version though C:

  • nitefox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’m glad that wefwef.app will remain operative: although Voyager is a better name, the new domain is quite hard to remember imo