It is planned but it probably will take a while to implement since lemmy doesn’t support webpush api. Without web push their are only two ways to check for notifications (both aren’t elegant):

1. Poll the lemmy api for new messages (say every min). This would be bandwith intensive for both voyager servers and your lemmy instance (Memmy does this and currently for 800 users 3gb of bandwith is used per day). Even if voyager is able to scale there servers to handle bandwith lemmy instances could impose rate limits which would prevent notifications from coming through.

2. Set up a weird janky system to intercept emails sent from lemmy instance to trigger a voyager server to ask the api if there are any new messages (would reduce poll rate but would be super clunky to setup).

Web push api could solve this issue since instead of voyager having to ask lemmy if their are new messages web push allows the opposite to happen (lemmy telling voyager a new message has arived).

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3552

Don’t quote me on this (I could be horribly wrong). Voyager doesn’t seem to use cookies rather it relies on Index db and local storage. Local storage stores your credentials for your accounts (jwt tokens), and index db stores your preferences. If DDG only is preserving cookies and wiping the local storage and index db (again I haven’t tested DDG) then that would give a possible explanation on why you are getting logged out and potentially why any settings are getting reverted.

Edit article explaning difference between storage types:

https://medium.com/@lancelyao/browser-storage-local-storage-session-storage-cookie-indexeddb-and-websql-be6721ebe32a

Edit 2 It looks like ddg is clearing data and only preserving first party cookies (which isn’t used for voyager):

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/web-tracking-protections/

Currently voyager cannot do this (It doesn’t have any background refresh capabilities). Down the line it might be able to when push notification feature is implemented (and you enable it).

Ah missed that thanks for linking it 👍

Ah 😆

Ah sorry about load I’m relying on catbox.moe due to fhmy having issue with bulging uploader (Imgur is an alternative but on mobile it redirects to ad filled site 😔).

Sorry was working on writing the comment 😪

Main issue is when you embed image in body with no other text and attach an image a render bug shows up

![](https://files.catbox.moe/nvo2g0.jpeg)

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

A bit of a problem Lemmy doesn’t support background push notifications (when not opened in browser tab).

Currently apps like memmy rely on a server to poll Lemmy servers (say ever min) to check for new messages then relay a push message.

Problem is this isn’t very scalable (dev reported 3gb of bandwidth used for only 800 accounts).

My only currently gripe with wefwef being a pwa is on iOS their is no deep link support.

I have a push notification setup which uses a MacMini apple mail app with apple script, shortcuts, and ntfy to create push notifications.

On Android pwa’s deep link aka it I can make ntfy directly open wefwef unread inbox upon clicking.

On iOS however pwa’s can’t deep link nor can be opened by shortcuts. The closest work around I have is calling a shortcut to open wefwef to open WebView (which unfortunately means manually updating two instances of wefwef on iOS).

Using say a pwa wrapper to make a hybrid iOS web app could fix this.

Although on the other hand if wefwef obtains push notifications then deeplinking may become a moot point

Nice 👍

Although soon you probably will be able to use static hosting like GitHub pages since Lemmy 0.18.1 fixes cors.

Android assuming the pwa is installed from chrome uninstalling the pwa should auto fox.

If not opening wefwef from chrome and clearing website data will fix

Although I haven’t personally experienced any issues iOS and Android

I recently tried signing up for TILvids perr tube. It said however admin approval is required for uploading.

Is this common?

This is gonna be weird to say but compact mode for wefwef is. Bit to compact

Both should be possible while keeping pwa

Tried and true advice 😉

wefwef should feel more snappy in general as it can talk directly to lemmy instead of relaying requests.

So lemmy v0.18 broke CORS. You can expect poor performance on wefwef.app connecting to lemmy.world until the following PR is merged in: LemmyNet/lemmy#3421

This hotifx allows you to connect to lemmy.world once again, even if the experience is poor (because we have to proxy all traffic because… cors)

https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef/releases/tag/0.9.1

Probably not. Though out of curiosity is there a specific reason you want it in the playstore (aside from auto updates)?

Google chrome on android allows pwa’s to access a LOT of features

https://chromeos.dev/en/web/powerful-pwas

I like this one a lot more

Maybe an option could be add to prompt a change log (wefwef has been updated) and maybe make it optional to view?

I kinda use wefwef in a weird way I have it installed as a pwa on my ipad and also have it signed in on ios web view via discord (I use monito rss to act as pseudo push notifications). Unfortunatly unlike android their isn’t a way to have links auto open in the pwa (atleast to my knoweledge). This leads to an issue of having to update more than once.

I know this probably nich case though and probably might be irrelevant once push notificaitons are implemented in the future

Edit some images of this janky solution 🫠