Setting a language on post/comments have been a part of Summit for a while but due to it's simple implementation it was a hassle to actually use.

This update greatly improves the experience around discussion languages.

This update also adds a lot of other small features and bug fixes.

Full changelog

• Update tap-to-close image viewer gestures. Show/hide UI gesture has been moved to long press so that double-tap can be used for zoom in/out. This change only affects users with the tap-to-close image viewer setting enabled.
• Add link option to unwrap a proxied image url. This option is only shown if the URL is detected to be a proxied image URL.
• Change Summit to respect the repeat count in animated image formats. Eg. GIFs that have repeat once in the metadata are only played once.
• Add support for the "transfer community ownership" mod action.
• Update language chooser UI to be easier to use. Language chooser now has a search bar, and it will display up to 5 recently chosen languages.
• Add a per-account default language choice on posts/comments.
• Fix a bug where editing a post/comment will not automatically set the language.
• Fix the mention context menu opening in a random part of the screen. It now correctly opens below the item that was long pressed.
• Fix a crash when viewing an image full screen on older devices.

Update Fixed a bunch of crashes from my backlog of crashes. Some other bug fixes too. Releasing as v1.86.1.

• Fix a crash when restoring the app when scroll between posts is enabled.
• Fix a crash when opening an image full screen when browsing a multi-community.
• Fix a rare crash that can occur when bookmarking a community.
• Fix a bug where the community icon is shown instead of the poster's icon in the post list if post layout is set to list and the user is on a specific community page.
• Fix a bug with some spoiler tags failing to parse correctly.

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• Extremely out of date version check?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 if the app version you are using is over x versions out of date)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
• 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 option to change the color of the badges on the bottom bar so that different colors indicate different things. https://lemmy.world/post/32520561
• 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. (https://lemmy.world/post/50744178) (https://lemmy.world/post/50999748)
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Add support for other media hosting sites (https://lemmy.world/post/45428857)
• Add toggle to show post feed from previous session always even if app is killed and restarted. (https://lemmy.world/post/46528832)
• Add setting to change the size of the side pane. (https://lemmy.world/post/46615906)
• Add a "collaq" field for settings so they can be searchable by alternative terms (https://lemmy.world/post/46011340)
• Add a setting to ask user what to do when back press while there is unsaved text in create post/comment screen. (https://lemmy.world/post/46998220/23843567)
• Add setting to show per-person score only after voting on the person's post/comment. (https://lemmy.world/post/46998220/23980069)
• Link previews for link posts (https://lemmy.world/post/47882303)
• Add support for Unified Push (https://lemmy.world/post/49218545)
• Hide images/videos by default (https://lemmy.world/post/49946137)
• Add action button on comments to show parent comment (https://lemmy.world/post/50152989)
• Add support for emojis (https://lemmy.world/post/50457956)
• Add setting to switch between single and long press for quick actions (https://lemmy.world/post/50576245)
• Add support for multi-image posts (https://lemmy.world/post/50725181)
• Add setting for drafts to ask on exit whether to save as draft or not (https://lemmy.world/post/50744178)
• Change link post UI to be in line with other Lemmy apps (https://lemmy.world/post/50646750)
• Find some way to aggregates/merge crossposts (https://lemmy.world/post/50961376)
• Indicate who you are posting as (https://lemmy.world/post/50984999)
• Add setting to not pin pinned posts inside multi-communities (https://lemmy.world/post/51047356)
• Support user notes (https://lemmy.world/post/50763808)
• Better support displaying alt text (https://github.com/idunnololz/summit/issues/50)
• Add setting to enable swipe right on post list screen (https://github.com/idunnololz/summit/issues/52)
• Add post templates (https://lemmy.world/post/50744178)
• Support PieFed personal feed endpoints (https://lemmy.world/post/51128070)
• Add a gesture action for toggling bookmark instead of only add bookmark (https://lemmy.world/post/51339582)
• Add option to share link with a different front end. (https://lemmy.world/post/51252391)

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)
• Add a setting to tag bot accounts (https://lemmy.world/post/50762251)
• think about how to support sharing as a URL and as a "mention".
• https://lemmy.world/comment/16965825
• share image URL via unproxied link. Details: https://lemmy.world/post/29634477
• Add setting to optionally use a GIF's metadata to determine whether to loop or not instead of auto-looping.
• 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

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

Would it be possible to change how Summit names its backups? Right now they're not "order by name" friendly.

To make them so, they should:

• be prefixed with summit (so it doesn't bundle with backups from other apps that also don't prefix their names)
• use ISO date format (so the month is always before the day)

Especially the last one would be nice. I just did some cleanup and thought my last backup wasn't there as it was not the last one (by name) in the file list.

I've started posting to more communities, and now my drafts folder gets a bit mixed up since I don't know which drafts are for which community. I was thinking about how the posts could be marked so I know what community they're for without making anything more cluttered or complex.

The best solution I came up with was on the Drafts screen, if a long press could pop up a color select screen like for user tagging where I could choose a color to highlight the title along these lines:

If there's a smoother way to incorporate it within the overall UI of the app, that's good too. You've been doing so much with features I've kinda fallen off keeping up with all the development for a bit now. You get so much done it's crazy! Thanks for everything!

Title. I've had this bug for quite some time now (I think about a year at this point). I didn't report it because I was lazy and thought that it would surely be reported by someone else, but it never happened, so here I am, writing this post lol

I use Compact view. If, when browsing a multi-community, I click on the post itself, it works as expected and I can view the image just fine.
But if, instead of clicking on the post, I click on the picture, the app crashes to the desktop.

Implementing more things off the roadmap...

Changes so far

• Update tap to close gallery gestures
• Fix mention popup not anchored correctly
• Add link option to unwrap a proxied image url. This option is only shown if the URL is detected to be a proxied image URL.
• Respect repeat count in GIF metadata
• Overhaul language picker for post/comments. New language picker UI that should be easier to use. New options for setting a language as the default for an account.

Why can't I swipe to downvote posts the same way as comments? There are the upvote and reply options, but downvoting is missing...

This release is a small release that makes some much needed changes to the app.

The most visible change in this release is the introduction of the new People setting page. The Misc setting page has been growing longer and longer and there has been enough people related settings to warrant a new settings page.

The other less visible change is a complete overhaul of how posts and comments load. The aim here is to make it easier to make changes to posts/comments in the future for new feature work as well as reduce the amount of bugs related.

Full changelog

• Add a new preference screen called People. This screen will hold all settings related to how people are displayed in various places such as within a post or comment.
• Add a feature to show a "BOT" label next to bot accounts. Can be disabled in settings on the new People setting page.
• Post & comment loading overhaul. If I did this correctly, you shouldn't notice any changes to how post/comments load.
• Show a loading spinner when individual comment trees are being loaded.
• Show an error message when individual comment trees fail to load.
• Fix an issue where the "hide duplicate post" feature was using the wrong preference key. This caused the "hide duplicate post" feature to become enabled/disabled when it wasn't supposed to be enabled/disabled.
• Fix comment trees expanding when a comment is created when "collapse comments by default" is on.
• Fix a bug where the number of local subscriber count is being reported as the total subscribers on PieFed.
• Fix a bug where the the bottom bar is fully visible after tapping on an image when "lock bottom navigation bar" is enabled.

For posts list I use mark as read as my primary gesture and bookmark (save) as my second one.

Mark as read works as expected: when triggered on an already read post it marks it as unread. The same doesn't happen for bookmark action. If a post is saved, swiping again does nothing.

In a way bookmark gesture really do what it said. Yet making it to toggle save state the same as mark as read do would be nice.

Going to keep this release "small" so I can push some improvements out.

The biggest change is going to be a post/comment loading refactor. This should offer some minor user experience improvements such as adding in some missing loading indicators or error messages. It should also improve post/comment loading performance and eliminate some edge case bugs.

Changes so far:

• Refactor post/comment loading
• Fix issue where hide duplicate post feature was keying off the wrong preference (it was keying off whether hidden posts were enabled).
• Fix all comments expanding when the "collapse comments by default" setting is on.
• Fix a bug where the number of local subscribers is being reported as the total subscribers on PieFed.
• Fix a bug where the the bottom bar becomes visible after tapping on an image in a post if the setting "lock navigation bar" is enabled.
• Add setting for displaying pronouns next to names when available. Default on.
• Add a new setting page called "People". Settings that change how people are displayed will be moved to this new page.
• Add setting for displaying a "BOT" label next to bots. Default on.

I did enable "display deleted post" setting

I have been trying to get my friends into lemmy but it isn't working out well. I feel one of the reasons is UI / UX of default web interfaces and anubis botcheck.

Is it possible to add an option to share links to other web frontends like:

Photon Voyager Blorp

And an option to include the title or screenshot of the post along with the link. (Some apps like whatsapp block fediverse link previews)

Giving Summit a spin again after bouncing around apps for a while now. Gotta say this app has come a long way since the last time I used it and is rapidly becoming my favorite fediverse browser.

I've been tweaking the myriad of settings to my liking and everything feels fluid EXCEPT, I have been unable to find a way to keep my system navigation and notifications on-screen while I browse.

Right now, Summit runs as a full-screen app, constantly hiding my device navigation buttons, which is not my preferred way to interact. I am constantly reaching for my back button only to realize it is either two taps (swipe to show, then click), or I need to reach my lazy thumb aaaaallllll the way to the opposite corner of the screen to hit that back arrow.

I would love to have an option to keep this app from running exclusive full screen mode and instead have it work like every other social/browser app on my phone and keep my system navigation intact while I browse.

ETA: And if I'm just overlooking an existing setting that does this, consider this a request to make that setting more clearly defined and located!

Would it be possible to have more compact header. Banners make them use a lot of space for no real values. Especially when a banner has not been set.

I know you can disable post feed header which is a good solution for your subscriptions posts list but then it also disables header for community :-/

For reference a header for a community having set its banner :

To compact it more community thumbnail coud be aligned vertically with your profil avatar and the block with community name and the start of its description could be displayed between community thumbnail and profil avatar. As the banner image could make it hard to read when there is one, it would be nice to be able to disable its picture.

I take a look at how other apps does it: Webui is the same as Summit, Thunder is good! It uses a gradient to improve readability :

Anyway it would be really nice if header could take less space. On the list of posts for my subscription (the main screen I use) when at top the header takes something like 20/25 percent :-/

I like to pick the language of the post because I assume that helps lemmy to sort posts and suggest the correct language to uses.

Every time I have to scroll so a search bar is my suggestion and picking your favorite languages if you are multi lingual.

The favorite languages should be not limited to a limited number.

1. Go to /c/summit (or any other community)
2. Click on Community info
3. Users section incorrectly displays the number of local subscribers from my instance (Piefed.ca). It should be displaying the total number of subscribers instead.

Something that's been bothering me, more than a little since it makes use difficult, is when I post a comment, every single parent comment gets opened and all child comments in the whole post come into view.
I can't remember what that mechanic is called, but I hope I was clear what happens.

It's already annoying enough that mr comment goes to the bottom (instead of the top like in Relay and other Reddit and Fediverse apps) so I have to scroll all the way back to the top, or where I was, to continue reading, but to have everything open up and having to scroll past the entire comment section with every single child comment makes it even worse.

Not to mention that I have the options specifically set that I only see the child comments when tapping an interesting parent comment. Now all of a sudden I see every child comment as well.

I just wanted to celebrate a little.

After going on a one month break about 3 months ago, I've been struggling to keep up with the influx of feature requests/bug reports and general feedback. So it is with great pleasure to inform everyone that I have finally addressed every bit of feedback I could find here and on GitHub.

If you have any I didn't get to you can drop them below.

If I put together a multicommunity and each of them has pinned posts there's a lot to scroll through until I get to the sorted feed. Would it be possible to make it so the pins are ignored in multicommunities and just follow the regular sorting?