Hi,
I'm comparing Lemmy Android app clients and I'm between Thunder and Voyager.
I noticed something weird with Voyager. There is this post it displays an image in the timeline using Thunder but it doesn't in Voyager.
Is it some configuration that I need to tweak in Voyager?
Also, is there some config to display short text about the post if has image? Like some description below if available
Thanks
6 Comments
aeharding@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
The post you linked to doesn't have a thumbnail returned from the lemmy.world API. Were you viewing that post through another instance of Lemmy that happened to pick up a thumbnail?
Amaterasu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I'm using lemmy.world on both apps. Some screenshots comparing the apps:
aeharding@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I'm not sure then, that would be a question for those app developers. The thumbnail URL doesn't exist in Lemmy's API. You can see the same behavior in lemmy-ui.
orangeNgreen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
One of Thunder’s settings is to “Scrape Missing Link Previews.” I’m not a developer, and not too savvy when it comes to this stuff, but just throwing that info out there in case it has anything to do with OP’s question.
aeharding@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Hmmm. So the app is making a request to the website by passively scrolling through the feed? That seems pretty bad for security/privacy reasons. I'd much rather see the missing thumbnail scraping fixed in Lemmy. And then it will work in all apps, and not have privacy issues.
Edit: I made an issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4468
Amaterasu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
It seems that what first was a Voyager question became a Thunder investigation. I'll ask in the Thunder community what is happening here.