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

  • aeharding@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    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?

    • typhoon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      4 months ago

      I’m using lemmy.world on both apps. Some screenshots comparing the apps:

      • aeharding@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        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.worldEnglish
          4·
          4 months ago

          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.worldMEnglish
            8·
            4 months ago

            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

            • typhoon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              3·
              4 months ago

              It seems that what first was a Voyager question became a Thunder investigation. I’ll ask in the Thunder community what is happening here.