Sorry I should have posted this sooner. I just wanted to give an update since development has slowed considerably.

I have been incredibly busy the past month due to family events (not bad just busy). It's dying down now so hopefully should have more free time but basically because of the events of the past month I have accumulated a long list of errands that I will attempt to burn down in the next couple of weeks.

After that I should be able to resume development on Summit. I would say thing should go back to normalish by mid July but maybe sooner if I work quicker.

Thank you for understanding.

Edit: Thank you everyone for the warm wishes.

The recipe I prefer is a variation of https://thewoksoflife.com/beijing-fried-sauce-noodles-zha-jiang-mian/.

Also known as noodles with fried bean sauce. This is one of my favorite meals and it's a budget friendly dish so I ate this often as a kid.

The original dish is so popular that there are many many variations including Korean and Japanese variations in addition to other variants from different regions of China as well.

The version I like the most is the Beijing style which uses a lot of oil and it's key ingredients are yellow bean paste, sweet bean sauce and pork belly, served with wheat noodles and cucumbers.

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

• Nothing yet.

Update

I originally had some bug fixed done for this release in the WIP section however I decided to release them as a minor update instead. See https://lemmy.world/post/46998220.

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.

Update

Releasing an update to address some bugs. Update version is v1.82.3.

• 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.
• Add a warning message to the filter dialog if a "Match entire word" is on but the text contains more than one word or special characters.
• Changed the default for per-user scores from enabled to disabled by default. Can be re-enabled in settings (Settings > Misc > Per-user scores).

Update 2

Noticed elevated levels of crashes. Releasing a patch (v1.82.4) to fix some crashes.

• Fix some crashes.

I made it and served it alongside the classic tomato and egg dish.

Some days I really envy them.

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.

Tastes great but doesn't look that good.

I was snapping photos of Sencha this weekend when he was sleeping on me. At some point he must have stretched and put his paw in front of the camera. A little while later I saw this hilarious image while reviewing the photos I took, so I am sharing it with all of you.

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.

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".

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.

As promised, I will share the current designs that I mocked up for the post feed. It's been a busy week so I only got a chance to start on this yesterday.

The three main changes I wanted to flesh out are:

• A redesigned, more compact community header.
• A more compact post header.
• A redesigned post layout.

Please feel free to give feedback in the comments.

Old design	First redesign draft