Summit

I'm excited to announce that v1.81.0 of the app is finally ready to be released. This update refreshes the look of the default user experience hopefully for the better.

You can see a screenshot of this new default user experience here:

To make the new user experience possible, three new features have been added to Summit:

1. A new post feed header style named "Compact". This is meant to give the user slightly more information about the community they are browsing without taking up too much of the screen. This will be on by default going forwards. (You can turn off post headers in Settings > Post Feed. You can also revert the style to the previous design.)
2. A new post header style named "Compact". This makes the header on each post prefer a single line instead of two lines, making posts more compact and reducing some redundant information. The post header style can be adjusted on a per-post style basis. In this release only the new List and Compact style will use the "Compact" header style by default.
3. A new post style named "List" (the old "List" style is now named "List (old)"). This style is designed to be much more compact than the previous List style, trying to be a good compromise between the old List style and Compact. This post style is now the default.

As usual, all of these changes can be reverted via settings.

Full changelog

• Add new post feed header style "Compact". This is now the default header style.
• Add new post header style "Compact". This is on by default for the List and Compact post styles.
• Add new post style "List". This is now the default post style.
• Change post feed header to on by default.
• Fix a bug where post/comment scores can get stale and not update.
• Fix a bug where jump to comment button doesn't work.
• Fix a bug where sliders in settings can be finicky.
• Fix a bug where rotating the screen continuously on the post feed will cause the post feed to become blank.
• Fix a bug when loading child comments where only 10 comments can be loaded.
• Add setting to disable generating thumbnails from video urls.
• Fix a bug where spoiler tag aren't parsed if there isn't a space between ":::" and "spoiler".
• Fix a bug where the bottom bar is obstructed in post screen if a post is opened via link.
• Fix a bug where errors in the post feed can block all other UI elements, forcing the user to back out of the app.
• Fix a bug where hide bot accounts setting is not visible.

Update v1.81.1

• Fix a bug where some videos cannot be played from the post feed.
• Fix a bug where the downvotes symbol is shown for comments.
• Fix a few rare crashes.

Update v1.81.2

• Fix comment scores not visible in some cases.

Update v1.81.3

• Fix a bug where videos are shown twice in the post screen.
• Fix a bug where sometimes comments load forever.

This release adds some mod tools for PieFed to the app (some mod tools are still missing because they are not supported by the API yet).

This release also makes significant changes under the hood. These changes are meant to keep the app snappy. The app goes through lots of updates and features are added left and right so some occasional refactoring is necessary to ensure the app does not get too bloated.

Changes to the internal portions of the app is also why this release took a bit longer. These changes can cause bugs if not done correctly and I had to dogfood the app for a while before I was confident enough to release the update.

Full changelog

• Add support for modlogs on piefed.
• Add support for reviewing and accepting/rejecting registrations.
• Add support for [spoiler] tags.
• Fix some bugs with finding text on the post screen.
• Optimized save/restore post feed when app is killed and restored. This adds a slightly longer delay when the app is restored after it's been killed by the OS but it should reduce the number of network calls and improve snappiness once the app is restored.
• Show HD image toggle in more situations.
• Fix a bug where the loading spinner never disappears on a post even though internally the post has failed to load.
• Fix a bug where "No comments" is not shown when there are no comments.

Update v1.80.1

• Fix a bug where long tapping on an image will load the thumbnail and not the original image.

Update v1.80.2

• Fix a bug where sometimes resuming the app, the post feed will fail to restore.

Update v1.80.3

• Fix a bug where link posts with a thumbnail incorrectly try to load the link and not the thumbnail.
• Fix a bug where community icons sometimes flicker.
• Fix a bug where viewing an image of a post will no longer default to the thumbnail if it has been cached.
• Reverted change where opening a post from the post screen will open it in the same post window. This was causing confusing back navigation problems.

Update v1.80.4 I accidentally didn't build the correct code because the code was written on another computer and I also accidentally shipped some test code. Doing another release to correct these.

Update v1.80.5

There was a one line code change that I missed when cleaning up after experimening with something that was increasing crash rates. My bad.

Planned changes

• Offline mode (view posts, comment, vote all offline with an offline engine that tracks everything and performs the actions once network is established).
• Setup wizard.
• Extremely out of date version check? (Eg. if the app version you are using is over x versions out of date)
• Export tables as part of export settings. Currently there is a limitation for the import/export settings feature. It only supports settings which are represented as key-value pairs. However some settings are represented as lists and these are stored in tables in a db. This change will require the app to know how to import/export a table as well as possible showing this option to the user.
• Revisit the "more options" menus. Some of them are getting too long.

Specific user requests

• Take screenshot from post feed.
• Add “I’m feeling lucky” button. Not sure where to add this. Maybe on the "Search" screen somewhere.
• Allow users to choose to check unread counts for more than just the current account. Also surface the unread counts for other users somehow.
• Add option to navigate by side bar (like the OG apps from material 1)
• Add some way to indicate a community is one you are subscribed to everywhere in the app. Eg. When searching for a community in the community selector, in the suggestions window when drafting a post/comment or in the seaech community screen in multicommunity or filter by community in search.
• https://lemmy.world/post/27467193
• add option to import communities from Reddit
• add setting to separate recent communities, bookmarks and history by account.
• https://lemmy.world/post/27608794
• https://lemmy.world/post/29147076/16965825
• https://lemmy.world/comment/16965825
• think about how to support sharing as a URL and as a "mention".
• share image URL via unproxied link. Details: https://lemmy.world/post/29634477
• Inline embeds similar to Discord/Slack - https://lemmy.world/post/30227433
• Sports Mode. It’s a toggle for viewing comments in a post that automatically refreshes every 15 seconds, which is really great for participating in live threads.
• Fix "All subscribed" feed bugs. Eg. https://lemmy.world/post/27333742/17419576
• Add a setting to auto-lock videos in the orientation based on the aspect ratio of the video and the device screen aspect ratio.
• Add setting to optionally use a GIF's metadata to determine whether to loop or not instead of auto-looping.
• Add option to change the color of the badges on the bottom bar so that different colors indicate different things. https://lemmy.world/post/32520561
• Add option to set default language id. https://lemmy.world/post/32603224
• Add support for deleting communities & transfering communities in app. https://lemmy.world/post/32893291
• https://lemmy.world/post/33177509
• Add setting to choose between different strategies of adding a "cross-post" disclaimer. Options are: Never, Always, and Only if url is blank.
• Add support for templates for more mod actions.
• Add support for templates for posts possibly.
• Add support for grouping multiple cross-posts together (like piefed web).
• Add support for Piefed topics/feeds (https://lemmy.world/post/33653279)
• Add hide duplicate posts (as opposed to just marking them as read).
• Add preview of the link to the link options menu. https://lemmy.world/post/34986545
• Customize cross-post template https://lemmy.world/post/34859588
• Add biometrics/pin to access an account. Obfuscate account in the account switcher. https://lemmy.world/post/34877873
• Add setting to allow "peeking images". https://lemmy.world/post/35237886
• Special state for URLs that are already visited (like in a browser)
• Add setting to show full date/time instead of relative date/time
• Smart blocking (https://lemmy.world/post/37055213)
• Add setting to add color or icon to upvote % stat (https://lemmy.world/post/37207640)
• Client-sided "read later" list (https://lemmy.world/post/37587737)
• Add another way to switch accounts (https://lemmy.world/post/37760726)
• Add suggestions to search bar (https://lemmy.world/post/37794282)
• Handle "lemmyverse.link" links (https://lemmy.world/post/37899747)
• Add option to not collapse comment completely and instead only collapse child comments (https://lemmy.world/post/23930346/19963773)
• Add setting to hide all or some FABs (https://lemmy.world/post/37632207)
• Add feature to edit/move bookmarks
• Show a more detailed loading UI when refreshing the post list.
• A different style for links that show the link and the preview image together as one element. (like reddit?)
• Go through the web settings screen and hide any fields not supported by PieFed.
• Hide posts based on upvote percentage
• Add "view community info" from create post screen so users can review community rules before posting. Maybe also add like a nudge of some kind to tell users to view the community information in case there are rules.
• User level vote tracking (https://lemmy.world/post/41640290)
• Add setting to adjust how pinned posts look (eg. make the title green).
• Support PieFed reactions (https://lemmy.world/post/41894911)
• Add a setting to allow users to adjust the max zoom in the image viewer (https://lemmy.world/post/43275519)
• Add setting to prefer to resolve links in the current instance.
• Add setting to display content body in any layout (https://lemmy.world/post/43793223)
• Add full (post) view for search results (https://lemmy.world/post/43958162)
• Allow setting a different "home" community for each user.

Stretch features (nice to have but I need to do more research)

• Possible integration with mastodon/? (needs research)
• Support Mbin?
• Sync between devices?
• Turn chat in Summit into a "first class" feature.

Completed features

• each post in the feed should have a ‘mark as read’ button I can tap easily, when hit post auto hides.
• add FAB quick action to refresh the post feed.
• Add a way to sort communities by number of times visited on the device: https://lemmy.world/comment/17413948
• Add setting to force wrap post/comment headers when using icons.
• Hide Downvote Button on Instances with Downvoting Disabled
• Add setting to disable recents in community selector.
• Add suggestions for community to post to in the create post fragment based on post history
• Add a setting to make long tap the gesture to show the UI in the image viewer and make single tap close the image viewer.
• Add option to hide actions in the rich text editor toolbar.
• Add setting to the rich text editor toolbar to display a label for each action.
• add setting to download file to folder based on community: https://lemmy.world/comment/17081662
• add search options to search by special feeds such as subscribed, local, or moderator view.
• Add a setting to adjust the maximum height (or maybe width?) of an embedded image (eg. an image within a comment).
• Add setting to have hide read default to on.
• Add setting to disable read "state" in the UI for the post feed.
• Add "edit comment" to quick actions. https://lemmy.world/post/35218074

If anyone is interested in helping with translations, please see the link below. If anyone has any questions feel free to post them here! Thank you in advance to all translators!

https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy/wiki/Translations