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.