Settled on Voyager months ago. Sometimes I wonder if I’m missing out on newer alternatives for iOS but Voyager does everything I need it to and has that comfortable, familiar Apollo aesthetic.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Arctic is a nice native iOS app that’s frequently updated. It’s in the App Store and a TestFlight is available in the !arctic@lemmy.world community.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's a shame. I'm using Voyager but it has some critical problems for me that make the experience unpleasant.

Biggest one would be it doesn't show the username of the poster of a post in any views but when viewing the post. This is important. Certain posters regularly post good, reliable, interesting, funny, etc content. Some I'm even friendly with. Others I know post frivolous things, post straight up fake-news and "jokes" so seeing their name clues me in I don't need to freak out about something upsetting because it's fake. And so on. Basically having the name displayed saves me a ton of time otherwise wasted going into lots of threads to see who posted it before backing out again and I'm sure there are plenty of threads I'd otherwise engage with which I don't because I can't see the username. There’s also the issue of seeing what instance a user is from. If they’re from a home instance dedicated to a certain thing (perhaps vetted individually) I feel differently than someone from an outside instance.

This was something reddit did on both old and new and it was correct to do so. It's also something I was used to with Apollo which I used for some time. It feels like half an experience without the user-names shown but I'm guessing it's an intentional choice on the part of the Voyager dev.

Second biggest one would be the upvote and downvote colors are reversed and it's messing with me but I could get over it.

If anyone knows any apps like Memmy or Voyager but with usernames always shown or an option to show them in the feed view I'd love to hear of it. I really like the aesthetic design of Memmy best but Voyager is close enough minus that one glaring issue.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I use Thunder and it displays the username on the main post feed. It has a refreshing look as well and doesn’t want to just look like Apollo which most lemmy apps seem to try to emulate.