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submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by idunnololz@lemmy.world to c/summit@lemmy.world
 
 

Lemmy V1 is around the corner and Summit will need to be updated in order to support all of the new features. This is going to be a quite a bit of work so it will be the focus of the next release.

Changes so far

  • Fix a bug where the emoji selector doesn't show up sometimes.
  • Fix a bug where the ¯\(ツ)/¯ emoji is not escaped correctly.
  • Fix a bug where the alt-text field expects a URL when it should expect text.
  • Fix a crash that occurs when clearing local event data.
  • Fix a bug where the bottom nav bar shows up on the post screen when it should be hidden.
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I want to officially celebrate the release of Summit on F-Droid.

Although the app has been available on F-Droid for about a week now, I waited until the 1.82 release F-Droid to make the announcement in order to get everything ready and updated.

Launching on F-Droid has taken a lot of effort so we are celebrating in the release notes. In many ways, the biggest project in this release is getting the app ready for F-Droid. This includes updating all of the links, graphics and websites.

Now onto the 1.82 release. This update brings more quality of life improvements. The big one is a much more powerful duplicate post detection system. It's never fun to see the same post twice so this feature aims to eliminate seeing duplicate posts forever (as long as you are on the same account). The original feature was introduced many versions ago but it was an experimental feature and it has never worked very well.

The other big change introduced in 1.82 is the inclusion of per-user scores. You may notice these scores appear beside usernames. They display the total times you've upvoted a particular user minus the times you've downvoted them. Credit to Voyager which I think is where this idea came from initially.

Full changelog

  • Add per-user scores in post/comment headers. Enabled by default. Can be disabled in settings (Settings > Misc > Per-user scores).
  • Add "Change feed" button to the top bar so it's easier to discover.
  • Greatly improve the duplicate post detector. Can be disabled in settings (Settings > Posts feed > Mark duplicate posts as read).
  • Change default for "hide banner if no banner" from off to on.
  • Change default community back to lemmy.world. Done for UX reasons since the changelog is hosted on that instance.
  • Fix a bug where the block instance button doesn't do anything on the instance information screen.
  • Fix gesture conflicts on the image preview screen.
  • Fix a crash due to the new PieFed comment reporting endpoints.
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[2026] Roadmap (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by idunnololz@lemmy.world to c/summit@lemmy.world
 
 

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

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
  • Add setting to allow "peeking images". https://lemmy.world/post/35237886
  • User level vote tracking (https://lemmy.world/post/41640290)
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by idunnololz@lemmy.world to c/summit@lemmy.world
 
 

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

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I have been using the app filters option to remove some posts I don't care about that are recurring, which is a nice feature.

There are however two problems with it that are sort of related, I don't seem to get it to work filtering combinations of words? E.g. I can filter for "hello" and "world" but when I make a filter for "hello world" it doesn't block anything. Is there a certain way you need to define those or does it just not work?

And since I can only do single word filters I have now the issue that I filter posts I do not mind actually. E.g. by trying to filter "hello world" with just "hello" I am also filtering "hello you". But whenever a post got filtered it does not tell you which filter was applied, it just says "this post is filtered because of a custom filter", or something like that.

Could that message maybe write out the word it filtered so one can see which filter got applied? Since I had wrong posts filtered I am now often checking, which post is behind the filter, but thats kind of removing the purpose of the filter.

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Emojis need proper scaping (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/summit@lemmy.world
 
 

Only example (this was injected with the emoji feature that pops up when writing in summit. I know that doubling the backslash fixes it by escaping the backslash itself): ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I can search the code and make a PR with the change, I feel bad asking to fix such a small thing. I can also open an issue later today if it's preferred but I can't right now sorry.

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Hey,

When creating a post, the alt text field for a picture seems to expect a URL-style content (my keyboard automatically replaces the comma key with a slash, and other little details that make it feel like that), instead of a normal text, so I just thought I'd mention it since I don't think it's a very noticeable thing.

The app is great by the way!

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Sorry if this is maybe an obvious answer. I'm just scratching my head. I just noticed it after the latest update.

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Don't have a theme planned for this one so going back to knocking off more user requests.

Changes so far:

  • Fix a bug where the block instance button doesn't do anything on the instance information screen.
  • Fix gesture conflicts on the image preview screen.
  • Add feature that shows per-user scores in post/comment headers. Enabled by default. Can be disabled in settings.
  • Improvements to duplicate post detector.
  • Fix a crash due to the new PieFed comment reporting endpoints.
  • Changed default for "hide banner if no banner" from off to on.
  • Fixed more bugs related to the duplicate post detector.
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Hello. Recently changed instances and apps, and loving Summit so far.

I've accumulated a few blocked users, they show up in my block list, and they're successively blocked in the web version of piefed.social, but their comments still appear on Summit. Reasonable possibility of user error on my part.

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Blocking instance via 'instance info' > ... Menu > block instance fails to add it to my blocked instances list

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A lot of apps now have this gesture, if you double tap on an image but keep dragging after the second tap it should function as a pinch-zoom. Can we have this for opened media please?
See Google Maps for an example.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/summit@lemmy.world
 
 

I was able to find this comment from last year about starting the process to add Summit to F-droid. Just curious if there's been any updates on that front?

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/voyagerapp/p/2008535/suggestion-also-release-voyager-on-the-app-stores-with-piefed-in-the-name

A month or two ago I made a few posts on reddit to nudge people to join PieFed
More details here
The posts got 500,000 views and a couple thousand people joined PieFed.

This is the insights of a Reddit community, as you can see the vast majority of people prefer using a mobile app.
~98% of users are using a mobile app. image

One issue I kept seeing in the comments was that there's no "PieFed" app on any of the app-stores.

I want to be able to tell people, "Hey there's this cool PieFed app, just search for it from the App-Store"

With age verification and other BS looming, the next Rexit is coming, we need to be ready. Ideally people can just comment, "Yea Reddit sucks, Just download PieFed from the app-store"

Can we make this happen? I'm sure it'll greatly benifit Voyager, PieFed and the Fediverse

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Hi! Thanks for the great app. After switching phones, I encountered a small issue: current Xiaomi phones don't show the per-app language toggle in the app settings, so I can't change Summit to the language I want without changing the whole phone UI.

It's a very low-priority request, but if possible it would be awesome to have some way of still switching the language :)

Thanks!

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Going through a busy period in my life so development will be a bit slow for a few weeks but should pick up back later. Will work on Summit when I can. Will prioritize bug fixes for now.

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Steps to reproduce:

  • Be in the subscribed feed
  • Tap to view one of the posts
  • Tap to view community of that post
  • Press back

Expected behaviour: I return to the post I was just viewing.

Current behaviour: I am transported to the first post in the feed.

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Animations eat battery and distract from the main content.

Can we have a zero animations mode please?

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The hosts that could host

Videos:

GIFs(Upload and use):

Images:

I think implementing this is going to remove some fraction in using Piefed and will make it more sustainable.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by _tasten_tiger@feddit.org to c/summit@lemmy.world
 
 

Upvoted comments show correctly.

The same is for downvoted.

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No matter whether I have this option turned on or off, I always have child comments visible.

Anyone else have this issue?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by idunnololz@lemmy.world to c/summit@lemmy.world
 
 

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 1 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 2 v1.81.2

  • Fix comment scores not visible in some cases.

Update 3 v1.81.3

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

Update 4 v1.81.4

  • Add new advanced settings to the post appearance screen that gives you fine control over the font sizes of the various UI elements.
  • Fix a bug where the description of multi-communities feeds show an error.

Update 5 v1.81.6

  • Fix "collapse child comments" setting not working on PieFed.
  • Fix a bug where upvoted/downloaded posts screen is empty if hide read web setting is on.
  • Fix a bug when "swipe between posts" is enabled, navigating to a different screen and returning will reset the position back to the first post.
  • Remove post open/close animation is animation level is set to "Minimum".
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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by idunnololz@lemmy.world to c/summit@lemmy.world
 
 

The original design was to move the icon to the top to reduce the size of the items.

However, after implementation the change it looks a bit weird so wanted to see what the community felt.

Let me know in the comments if you prefer A or B.

If anyone has other feedback for the design let me know.

A B

Update: Based on the feedback. I am going with A. Also I noticed you can basically accomplish B by changing some settings and using the old list layout so this way we have the best of both worlds.

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