I thought people might want to know since the public betas got released today. I tried them both on my iPhone and iPad and the scrolling is so janky in both they’re pretty much so unusable. I noticed scrolling problems in other apps too, I’m not trying to place any blame whatsoever on Voyager or its devs, I just wanted everyone here who was thinking about taking the plunge to know that if you do, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll lose access to a functional version of Voyager.

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    1 year ago

    Scrolling has always been an issue since I first started using this app. It locks up constantly for anywhere from a few seconds to 30 or so seconds. It’s the only reason I don’t use it as my main lemmy app.

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      1 year ago

      A temporary “solution” to fix this is to swipe on any post. This will allow you to scroll again, although you have to do it everytime it locks up…

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    1 year ago

    Installed the beta yesterday but haven’t experienced what you have. Scrolling seemed to be fine.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve had the dev beta and now the public beta on my iPad and had no issues. I think I did have to reinstall it at some point though, have you tried that?

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      1 year ago

      Nah, I was having that before I updated to the beta. This is definitely not that. I can load up the All feed and scroll down a page or two and then hit the “bottom” where no more posts load, then I try to scroll back up and it’s stuck on that page of posts. Then sometimes it will scroll without loading anything at all so I’m just scrolling a blank page and it gets stuck again so it’s just a blank page with nothing on it. It’s not mildly annoyingly janky, it’s like, completely unusable janky. But like I said, I am seeing similar behavior in other 1st party apps, so it’s almost certainly nothing that Voyager is doing wrong.

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    1 year ago

    Can you install Firefox on iOS? If so see how it works using that for the PWA back end.

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      1 year ago

      Hmm. That seems to have worked. I wouldn’t have thought so since, as the other person that replied to you said, I thought all the browsers used the same engine on iOS. Maybe they changed some Safari specific things in iOS 17.

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      1 year ago

      Won’t it not be different since all browsers on iOS (chrome, firefox, brave, etc) are forced to use WebKit unlike Android?

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      As I’ve said multiple times now, this isn’t the wonkyness that I and almost everyone else has been experiencing since the beginning of the app. This is different. The content isn’t loading at all after scrolling a bit, and after using it for a few minutes it basically reaches a point where nothing will load and the pages are blank and you have to reset the app. This only started on both of my devices once I installed the betas.