Summit

I'm a sync user, who is trying really hard to switch to Summit. It's going great so far, but the only thing I struggle with is the titles of posts are underneath images instead of at the top. Is there a way to configure that? I am hopelessly confused when I read the feed because I expect to read the title before seeing the image. Thanks! Great work!

I really like “Summit” with the following settings:

• Dark gray background: Settings > Mode > Background color “Less dark background”
• Image/text ratio: Settings > Posts feed > Appearance of posts > Basic view “Full” + Full content, max lines: 7 (Basic view “Tile 1” would have been good, but then it doesn't display the text of the post...)

Is it possible to get a view similar to the screenshot? With the above setting, I'm already very close, but I would prefer it, if all the text were below the image. (And displaying 7 lines of post text only works for me with the setting described above.)

Changes so far

• Remove support for Android 6 and below. The new minimum Android version is 7 (API level 24).
• Fix side panel staying locked if search is opened and closed.
• Update dependencies.
• Fix bug where a bunch of mark read action failures are logged each you switch accounts.
• Fix gesture actions and gesture navigation conflicts.
• Add new option to never indicate whether a post is read or not. This change may reset your current read indicator setting.
• Add "edit comment" comment quick action.
• Add setting for "peek" function. When enabled, long pressing on an image will show a preview of the image. The preview closes if you let go. Can be found under Settings > Misc. Default: off.
• Fix broken volume navigation in post screen.

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/36167557

As it stands right now, it looks like we have to just judge based off of how old posts are to see if we can still interact with a community.

Edit:
I see the posts on piefed in the browser.

Modern Android libraries are starting to phase out support for Android 5 (API levels 21 to 22). This makes sense to me since Android 6 was released 10 years ago.

Since a lot of libraries are no longer supporting Android 5 it means that to keep dependencies updated, Summit can no longer support Android 5 either.

If this is a huge concern to any users of Summit please flag in the comments. Otherwise I will be removing support for these versions of Android in the next release.

There was already a similar report, of the switch instance function taking long, a while ago https://lemmy.world/post/42666364 I had the same issue but it got worse, now it does not work at all anymore, even for example with the app update notification that takes me to the post. Also tried it with a different account, same issue

AVIF doesn't appear to be going away and there appears to be a gap in Android's current support for AVIF images.

It seems that AVIFs usage on the fediverse is increasing while Android only native supports AVIF images on Android 12 and up.

Even on these newer versions of Android, not all images are supported leading to some images failing to load every now and then.

The aim of this release is to bridge this gap by bringing better AVIF support to both old and new Android OSes. This release should allow even devices running Android 5 to view all AVIF images on Lemmy/Piefed. The cost is that the app will increase in size by ~2 MB.

Full changelog

• Add experimental AVIF support (again)
• Add setting to enable/disable the bundled AVIF decoder. Setting can be found under Misc > Use bundled avif decoder. Default: on.
• Add setting to save images/videos in subfolders based on the community. Eg. an image from c/cats will be saved to Summit/cats. Default: off.
• Fix an error that can occur when signing into a Piefed instance.

Update

• Fix RedGif embeds on PieFed.

Update2

• Fix "switch instance" button never completes.

fedinsfw should be running piefed.

Looks like AVIF is here to stay at Lemmy so I'm going to try to address it...

Changes so far

• Add setting to save images/videos in subfolders based on the community. Eg. an image from c/cats will be saved to Summit/cats. Default: off.
• Fix an error that can occur when signing into a Piefed instance.
• Add experimental AVIF support (again)

I'm asking because I tried Sync but it's paid, has ads, trackers, mentions Google and Amazon in its privacy policy which was a big red flag for me.

Is Summit open source? Does it have trackers/collection data?

Basically the title.

Do pictures really need a limit to how far you can zoom?

It annoys me to no end when there's a larger image that I'd really like to zoom in to view a detail and I run into an arbitrary wall just too far away.

Implemented more user requests. Bug fixes.

Full changelog

• Add a setting to change how the image viewer is controlled. By default tapping once will show/hide the ui and double tap will zoom in. Add a new control style where single tap closes the image viewer and double tap show/hide the ui.
• Add option to hide actions in the rich text editor toolbar.
• Add setting to show labels for items in the rich text editor toolbar.
• Add a new option in the post menu: Hide posts like this. Offers a convenient way to hide posts by keywords.
• Fix a bug where RTL names are not displayed correctly.
• Fix a bug where the local stats screen did not limit the length of some of the categories.
• Fix a bug where spoiler titles are not shown if they contain formatting.
• Fix a bug where the account creation date is listed in a confusing way.

I don't normally care about my cakeday, but I was confused.

I recently created this Piefed.World account (within this year), but it's telling me that my CakeDay is January 27, 2026, 348 days from now.

I posted it on the Piefed Support Community , and was told that it was a glitch in the app.

On Reddit, moderators can comment as regular users by default, and only display the green MOD badge when they intentionally “distinguish” a comment as an official moderation response.

It made me think about how this works across the Fediverse — particularly with PieFed.

PieFed supports opt-in mod distinction, allowing moderators to choose when they’re speaking officially versus when they’re just participating in a discussion as a regular community member.

That distinction can meaningfully affect tone, power dynamics, and how comfortable users feel engaging in open conversation.

By contrast, Lemmy (at least currently) does not support this feature at the protocol level, so this suggestion is not for Lemmy users.

Feature Suggestion (PieFed Users Only)

Would it be possible for Summit to support PieFed’s opt-in moderator distinction system?

Specifically:

Allow PieFed moderators to comment as regular users by default

Provide a clear, intentional toggle to mark a comment as “mod voice” when speaking officially

This would:

Help preserve conversational tone when Piefed mods are participating casually

Reduce unintentional authority signaling

Maintain transparency when acting in an official capacity

To be clear, this request applies only to PieFed users, since Lemmy does not (at least not currently) support this capability.

EDIT: Apparently Lemmy now supports the feature?

Or at least Lemmy.world does?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/60201661

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59348743

When using spoiler tags, if you add bold/italic formatting to the title, the title is hidden as part of the spoiler in Jerboa, instead of being rendered as a title with bold/italics.

Regular spoiler

Regular spoiler

Bold Title

Bold title

Italic Title

Italic title

The example that brought me here:

https://lemmy.ca/comment/21351153

Cross posted, because it seems Boost suffers from the same problem: not rendering bold/italic spoiler titles correctly.

Cross-posted as Summit also suffers from this issue.

Are there any updates on this issue? I run into it daily and it's definitely limiting the content I can access. I know it's been an ongoing bug so wanted to see if there was any update on resolving it. I didn't see anything in the release notes or recent posts.

Clicking here and changing instance to .world so I can answer to it, takes too long

Don't have much inspiration at the moment so I'm going to continue to implement more user requests.

Changes so far

• Add a setting to change how the image viewer is controlled. By default tapping once will show/hide the ui and double tap will zoom in. Add a new control style where single tap closes the image viewer and double tap show/hide the ui.
• Add option to hide actions in the rich text editor toolbar.
• Add setting to show labels for items in the rich text editor toolbar.
• Fix a bug where RTL names are not displayed correctly.
• Fix a bug where the local stats screen did not limit the length of some of the categories.
• Add a new option in the post menu: Hide posts like this. Offers a convenient way to hide posts by keywords.

Have you ever considered potentially adding support for Mbin, alongside the already existing Lemmy and Piefed login/support options?

I don’t personally use Mbin, but it struck me that supporting it could be interesting from an ecosystem standpoint — essentially completing the “trinity” of major ActivityPub-based forum platforms:

• Lemmy
• Piefed
• Mbin

Even if Mbin support isn’t a priority right now, I thought it might be worth floating as a future consideration, especially for users who like to move between different Fediverse ecosystems while keeping a single client.

I just downloaded summit. I can vote and do other things but I couldnt comment.

Here's the error:

LemmyAction failed. Cause: com.idunnololz.summit.lemmy.actions.LemmyActionFailureReason.UnknownError. Details: UnknownError(errorCode=401, errorMessage=Not signed in)

after some investigating, I tried posting this on the mobile client and saw an error that said im not allowed to post because I am on a VPN. turned my VPN off, tried posting my comment in the app, then it worked.

just thought you should know this error is incorrect and sent me down a rabbit hole. maybe there's something you can do to update this on your end? not sure though...

have a great day! love the app so far

Summit has received a ton of feature requests over the years. Over time, a group of features began to accumulate that all relied on the app to track some sort of statistic. Whether it was the number of votes per user or the number of times a community was visited, these features can all be derived from tracking events.

User tracking has a bad rep since it's often associated with ads and it's a hot topic when discussing privacy, however the data is undeniably useful. This is why Summit will start to track certain events beginning with this release. However, rest assured that this data will be stored on the client side only and it will be easy to opt out of.

This release also displays some stats generated from this data in the new stats page accessible from the "You" page.

Full changelog

• Add convenience setting to export settings to share for debugging purposes. This will be available via Settings > Import & Export settings > Copy settings for debugging. Tapping on this option will export your current settings (excluding the database) and copy it to your clipboard for easy sharing.
• Add a local tracking setting to enable/disable local tracking.
• Add local tracking setting page with some stats and an option to delete all local tracking data.
• Add a stats page to the "You" screen that displays some fun stats based on local tracking data.
• Add setting to change the communities listed in the community selector sheet from top communities to frequented communities of the current account.

Update

Bumping version to v1.76.2 with no major changes. I just screwed up the versioning.