Hey everyone, version 2.35.0 is here and it has a pretty cool update :)

Lately I’ve been sharing Lemmy memes with one of my friends who has Voyager. Usually we just text meme images which works and is nice and quick. But sometimes I want to link to a specific Lemmy post! Previously, I sent the direct Lemmy link, e.g. https://lemmy.world/post/29827953. However, this opens in a web browser when my friend taps the link in the text message. They could click “open in voyager” from the share menu or paste in Voyager’s search, but that’s a lot of work for viewing a dumb meme.

So introducing https://go.getvoyager.app/! By changing the setting “General” -> “Share Instance” to “Voyager” (will be changed to default option in a month or so), tapping “Share” on a post, comment, community etc will share a link via https://go.getvoyager.app/. Like this: https://go.getvoyager.app/lemmy.world/post/29827953.

When my friend taps the link from their text message, it will automatically open in Voyager! And if my friend doesn’t have Voyager installed, it will open a preview of the link, along with options to install Voyager. Pretty slick! That’s the magic of universal links.

Let me know what you think! There’s more FAQ here too. In other news I’m going to be on vacation for the next few weeks if you’re wondering why development will slow/pause.

  • moseschrute@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    This is sick! I figured people might want this so I have a few tricks to achieve essentially the same result but without any intermediate linking step. For example, view this post in Blorp. I’m curious why you decided to go with this method and if you think there are any advantages over my solution. Likely my solution breaks if you are on an instance that doesn’t federate with the instance hosting the original post.

    • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      The main reason is SSR so sharing in messages provider the preview image and whatnot. Also more control over the onboarding, and avoiding confusing the PWA with the native app. That’s a nice alternative though!

      • moseschrute@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        My SSR is nonexistent, so that’s a great point. Would be cool to see universal links on Voyager instead of just deep links, assuming you want to show install/open app when browsing Voyager in Safari. If you’re still interested in Tauri, unfortunately I haven’t figured out how to do universal linking yet (deep linking works). But Capacitor plays nice with universal links.