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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1303201

We've installed Voyager and it's reachable at https://m.lemmy.world, you can browse Lemmy, and login there (also if your account isn't on lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is there a benefit to using the Voyager hosted on the Lemmy server vs direct from vger.app? Any downsides

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Benefit: My password autofill works because the domain is lemmy.world instead of voyager.app.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not just autofill. If it's a different domain, the proxy host is reading your password and sending it though to Lemmy to log you in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This won’t be the case as soon as Lemmy.world fixes their CORS policy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you happen to be using 1Password, you can search and do a one time fill.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I can still do it with iCloud passwords, it’s just not as convenient.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Based on a comment by @[email protected] it looks like they're just using a docker container, only takes seconds to update. He said he'd probably set up Watchtower which auto updates containers so it should be only an hour or so behind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Downside from what I understand would be potentially delayed updates depending on how they pull the codebase

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When you're using vger hosted on a different domain, your password has to be read by them and sent to the Lemmy server to log you in.

If it's on the same server, the pw stays in the one system (albeit it might still need to go through the two pieces of software, idk how it's configured).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fantastic. Hopefully this becomes the default and helps to keep your server costs manageable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also most popular servers are no longer proxied (or else soon), so that should help a lot I think.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I was wondering when other admins would start doing this! I've had mine up at app.thelemmy.club for a week or two.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

This is probably the best news after the hack :)) Lemmy now has a better mobile experience than Reddit despite being so young. Hell yeah lessgo

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What is the difference between wefwef and m.lemmy.world?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I assume the idea is to give people an easy and nice looking default mobile experience for lemmy users without users having to go find things like wefwef/voyager themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's nice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Wefwef is an an web app, like an app, but that runs powered by your phone's web browser, usually accessible through a URL and you can then install it.

m.lemmy.world is just a page, hosted by lemmy.world. Typically, it should have just had a mobile view of the usual lemmy frontend. But what this announcement is saying is that Wefwef was made the official mobile frontend for that website, and thus, going to that page will show you the contents through a wefwef view.

Also replace all places where I wrote wefwefs with voyager, since they rebranded.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

m.address is using voyager as the interface for lemmy.world. Like m.wikipedia has a mobile layout for Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There is no difference, it’s two websites hosting the same software. The idea I think is to use wefwef as the mobile view for lemmy.world, since you can also use it straight from your browser (the beauty of a web app!).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Im a big Trek fan and don’t hate the name, but I found wefwef much more unique and memorable.

What is the reason you switched off that name?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome thanks for keep updating the app/website stuff. Voyager is the best Lemmy client out there.