Been playing with a new design for the search screen. This change was prompted by a user who wanted a faster way to access subscribed communities. This design also suggests some communities to users which could be cool.
For suggestions, I have a few options. I think the best way to implement it would be to create a server that generates community suggestions however this would incur a monthly cost. I think if I go this route I will create the start of a backend for Summit and open source it. The ideal situation is to get the monthly server cost covered by donations but I can also cover the cost. It should be around ~10-15 CAD/mo.
If any one has any suggestions/concerns feel free to comment.
So that's why it's called boxing day
First release since I've gotten back from vacation. This release addresses a good chunk of the user requests. There are some big ones left over that will be addressed in future releases.
Full changelog
- Updated the UI for the emoji picker.
- Updated the UI for deleted/removed posts so it has a distinct looked.
- Added a new setting to disable markdown parsing for post titles.
- Added a menu option to post/comments to copy it's contents.
- Added a settings screen for the emoji picker, allowing users to modify or add emojis.
- Added a setting to adjust the image size in the post feed.
- Added a "Go to" dialog accessible in the main menu. This dialog allows you to jump to any Lemmy page directly given a link.
- Added missing translations for Czech, German, Hindi, Italian, Swedish, and Turkish using Google Cloud Translations.
- Cleaned up the settings for post/comment scores. Changed settings so that there is one setting for post scores and one for comment scores. There are three possible options for both settings: show scores (default), show up and down votes and hide scores.
- Fixed a bug where the wrong icon is shown when viewing an instance's info.
- Fixed a bug where the title is shown when it should be hidden on the community info/instance info screen.
Update
Release has been in review for a few hours now. I hope it's not another 1 week review release :|.
I'm a real leftist who is not voting this US election
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I'm not an American citizen.
Floridians don't want you to know that the crocodiles there are free. You can take them home. I have 458 crocodiles.
Usually comparison functions are supposed to return an integer and are usually useful for sorting. However this one returns a bool so it's both useless and terribly named.
You should try apple cider vinegar instead of white vinegar. I think you might enjoy that.
Support for search / direct jump to a searched URL? Example being to search for https://lemmy.world/post/10414304 and jump here.
I used to have a dev tool when I was first making the app that did this. This use case never occurred to me. I'll add it to the roadmap.
Related: potentially have Android directly open Lemmy instance related links? (I know this one might be impractical!)
This one is (mostly) impossible. Google tightened up security for handling links. Now apps can only handle links from a certain domain if they own that domain (effectively). So if I wanted to handle links from Lemmy.world for instance I would need to contact the admins and ask them to essentially give my app permission to handle their links. I would need to do this for every lemmy instance so you can see how this is pretty difficult and requires a lot of co-operation.
Larger in-line image display on the main timeline… I feel like this is already in the settings potentially and I’m just missing it, but that in itself might be an issue or consideration for easily confused folks such as myself.
Added to the roadmap as well.
My husband's side of the family enjoys putting salt on lemon and eating it raw.
This has been something I've been wanting to do for a while. The app has been pretty stable recently so I can take a moment to work on a simple website for it. The purpose of the website is to have an official "front page" for the app.
Back from vacation, but I'm unfortunately a bit sick. Anyhow...
Changes so far:
- Fixed a bug where the wrong icon is shown when viewing an instance's info.
- Fixed a bug where the title is shown when it should be hidden on the community info/instance info screen.
- UI update for the emoji picker popup.
- Added a settings screen for the emoji picker, allowing users to modify or add emojis.
- Cleaned up the settings for post/comment scores. Changed settings so that there is one setting for post scores and one for comment scores. There are three possible options for both settings: show scores (default), show up and down votes and hide scores.
- Added a new setting to disable markdown parsing for post titles.
- Added a menu option to post/comments to copy it's contents.
- Updated the UI for deleted/removed posts so it has a distinct looked.
- Added a "Go to" dialog accessible in the main menu. This dialog allows you to jump to any Lemmy page directly provided you have a link.
- Added a setting to adjust the image size in the post feed.
Update
Quick update on what I'm working on these days. I'm currently working on a website for Summit. No, I am not making a web version of Summit. This is specifically a website to showcase the app and direct users to the relevant pages for the app. This work is specifically done to target people who might search for "Summit for Lemmy" or for sharing purposes. I've had the idea for a while now and I think right now is a good time to make the website.
Update 2
I'm experimenting with translating the app via "AI" since it's a pretty cheap and fast way to localize the entire app.
No guarantees I'll read anything posted here until then. See ya!
Edit: Vacation got extended one day from the 19th to the 20th because I was sick with a fever for a few days during vacation and I was bed ridden. I extended my vacation to see/do more.
Welcome to v1.43.0. This release adds a feature I've thought about since the start of the project but just never implemented: account creation! In v1.43.0 new users to Lemmy will be able to go through the entire account creation process (minus email verification) from the app.
The hope with this feature is that it will help reduce Lemmy's sign up friction even further, especially for Summit users.
Full changelog
- Added a create account option to the sign in screen.
- Changed the quote button when creating a comment. If text is selected from the "replying to" box when the quote button is tapped, that text will automatically be populated within the quote block.
- Fixed a crash that occurs when images are uploaded using Imgur.
- Fixed a bug where read posts appear as unread if a post is hidden.
- Fixed an issue where the title of a post is not shown in the detailed view.
- Improved the current community UI
- Updated the community icons across the app to be more consistent. The app will use auto-generated community icons for communities without icons.
- Fixed a bug where the bottom nav bar will disappear if you open an inbox item and then go back.
Update
Bumped to v1.43.1 to resolve a minor issue with the build.
Update 2
Bumped to v1.43.2 to address some issues and also add some minor improvements.
- Refreshed the design of the community selector sheet.
- Updated the community icons across the app to be more consistent. The app will use auto-generated community icons for communities without icons.
- Fixed a bug where the bottom nav bar will disappear if you open an inbox item and then go back.
I have some plans for v1.43 that I will add here later. For now, I'm just going to be doing some quick bug fixes. I've been fairly busy in my personal life outside of work so I haven't had as much time to work on Summit. Progress is still being made, just slightly slower. I will also be going on vacation from the beginning of October. My extreme stretch goal would be to release v1.43 well before I go on vacation so I have some time to polish the release before I'm on vacation but we shall see if that's feasible.
Changes so far
- Fixed a crash that occurs when images are uploaded using Imgur.
- Fixed a bug where read posts appear as unread if a post is hidden.
- Changed the quote button when creating a comment. If text is selected from the "replying to" box when the quote button is tapped, that text will automatically be populated within the quote block.
- Fixed an issue where the title of a post is not shown in the detailed view.
Update
Whoops I accidentally put [Release] in the title. This has been corrected.
She almost always moves if she sees me trying to take pictures of her so most of my pictures of Momo are a blur. I finally got a usable shot yesterday in a dark setting.
Get beamed
Android Beam is a discontinued feature of the Android mobile operating system that allowed data to be transferred via near field communication (NFC).
Last release added some features I wanted in the app. So to balance it out, this release will be focused on adding features users want.
I got a large influx of feature requests which is great.
Since there are so many feature requests I am going to break this release into multiple smaller parts. This way I can push out new features as they are implemented instead of doing a massive release all at once.
Full changelog
- Added a setting to control whether videos should auto-play. Default true.
- Added new comment count to posts.
- Added a view to the post screen if there are no comments.
- Added a setting to enable uploading images to Imgur.
- Added a setting to control how many animations are enabled within the app
- Added a setting to adjust the caching policy for the app. The options are aggressive, moderate (default), lite and minimum. Aggressive will cause the cache to be used more often resulting in better performance but things might be stale. Minimum will greatly reduce what is cached, reducing performance but ensuring things are up to date.
- Added a button to view the browsing history in the history settings screen.
- Changed the behavior of the navigation menu. If a navigation menu item is currently selected and it is tapped, the app will navigate you to the "home page" of that navigation item.
- Changed the style of read posts to dim the entire post item. This behavior can be changed in settings.
- Changed notification behavior so that when a notification is tapped, the inbox screen will auto-refresh unread messages.
- Changed the browsing history screen to open pages within itself instead of within home. Eg. if you tap on a post in the history screen, the post will now open in the history screen. This makes the behavior more consistent with other screens such as inbox or saved.
- Fixed several bugs related to the compose post screen.
- Fixed a bug where the create post screen mistakenly only shows comment drafts instead of post drafts.
- Fixed a bug where the loading indicator is not shown when comments are still loading.
- Fixed a bug where the imageviewer will appear unresponsive if the user leaves the app and then comes back.
- Fixed a bug where tapping on a notification item will create a weird back stack state. This fix will make navigation more intuitive.
- Fixed a bug where the inbox screen will automatically open an inbox item every time it's opened if a notification was tapped before.
- Fixed a bug where tapping on a notification will cause the inbox screen to be stuck in a weird state where certain actions will be ignored/do nothing.
- Fixed several crashes
- Fixed a bug where errors are cut off or not centered properly.
v1.42.1
- Added a setting to enable uploading images to Imgur.
- Fixed a bug where the loading indicator is not shown when comments are still loading.
- Added a setting to control how many animations are enabled within the app
v1.42.2
- Fixed a bug where posts will become unread if the app is closed and opened again.
- Fixed a bug introduced by the animation setting change. When expanding a post in the community post feed screen, sometimes the post will not expand.
v1.42.3
- Fixed a bug where post thumbnails will disappear sometimes when the post is tapped.
- Fixed a bug where the imageviewer will appear unresponsive if the user leaves the app and then comes back.
v1.42.4
- Fixed a bug in the post list where the content will disappear when tapped. This only affects the full content layout.
v1.42.5
- Fixed a bug where tapping on a notification item will create a weird back stack state. This fix will make navigation more intuitive.
- Fixed a bug where the inbox screen will automatically open an inbox item every time it's opened if a notification was tapped before.
- Fixed a bug where tapping on a notification will cause the inbox screen to be stuck in a weird state where certain actions will be ignored/do nothing.
- Changed notification behavior so that when a notification is tapped, the inbox screen will auto-refresh unread messages.
- Added a button to view the browsing history in the history settings screen.
- Changed the browsing history screen to open pages within itself instead of within home. Eg. if you tap on a post in the history screen, the post will now open in the history screen. This makes the behavior more consistent with other screens such as inbox or saved.
- Added a setting to adjust the caching policy for the app. The options are aggressive, moderate (default), lite and minimum. Aggressive will cause the cache to be used more often resulting in better performance but things might be stale. Minimum will greatly reduce what is cached, reducing performance but ensuring things are up to date.
- Fixed several crashes
v1.42.6
- Fixed a bug where errors are cut off or not centered properly.
v1.42.7
- Fixed a bug where importing settings can cause crashes.
- Tighten up some margins/padding.
- Added a setting to enable condensed style for comment headers.
v1.42.8
- Changed spoiler tags to make the space between
:::andspoileroptional.
Update
v1.42.1 is being release at the time of writing (9/2/2024). It adds more user requested features.
Update 2
v1.42.2 is released to address a bug in v1.42.1.
Update 3
I'm going to be wrapping up on community suggestions work at the end of this weekend. I will try to implement as many of the remaining suggestions as I can however it's unlikely I will be able to implement all of them. If I cannot implement your suggestion in time, I will implement your suggestion in a future release. It just means that your suggestion might not be prioritized.
The reason why I am doing this is so that I can prioritize implementing other features that I think would improve the app. As the community suggestions release wraps up I want to thank everyone who shared their suggestions during the release.
Update 4
Released v1.42.5 which contains the last of the user requested features I will implement for this release.
Update 5
Fixed some bugs and doing another release.
Update 6
Fixing more bugs.
- Fixed a bug where importing settings can cause crashes.
- Tighten up some margins/padding.
- Added a setting to enable condensed style for comment headers.
Update 7
Fixing more issues.
- The app always assumed that spoiler tags had to start with
::: spoiler, however I tested this on the website and actually the space between:::andspoileris optional. Eg. the website renders:::spoileras a spoiler block. So for parity, I am changing the logic in the app to also allow:::spoiler.
I'm going to be implementing more user requests. If you have any leave them in the comments.
Changes so far:
- Changed the behavior of the navigation menu. If a navigation menu item is currently selected and it is tapped, the app will navigate you to the "home page" of that navigation item.
- Fixed several bugs related to the compose post screen.
- Fixed a bug where the create post screen mistakenly only shows comment drafts instead of post drafts.
- Changed the style of read posts to dim the entire post item. This behavior can be changed in settings.
- Added a setting to control whether videos should auto-play. Default true.
- Added new comment count to posts.
- Added a view to the post screen if there are no comments.
Welcome to v1.41.0. This release adds a feature I've wanted for a while now (but likely no one else wanted). This release adds the ability to record an advanced screenshot.
In some cases, posts and comments can contain animated GIFs. When taking screenshots of these, context may be lost because the GIF animation is removed. The record screenshot feature allows users to take a recording of a screenshot, preserving animated GIFs in posts or comments. The feature allows you to record a screenshot as either a GIF, MP4 or WEBM and contains a lot of configurable settings.
Note that this feature currently does not work for videos (eg. MP4s) in posts because the video player renders these in a specialized way that cannot be captured by the method used by the app.
Full changelog
- Added a feature to "record" a screenshot as a video or GIF.
- Added option to mark a post as read/unread in the post option's menu.
- Changed long tap on the header, expand button or the side to expand actions as well.
- Fixed a bug where links are invisible in conversations.
He's so cute when he's sleeping 😭
So Summit for Lemmy already supports "advanced screenshots" letting you take screenshots of posts and comments with ease, allowing you to include any and as many comments as you want. However this doesn't work as well if the post or comments have animated GIFs in them. I'm working on a feature that will allow you to take an "advanced screenshot" but as a GIF so you can capture any video or GIF as well.
Changes so far
- Added a feature to "record" a screenshot as a video or GIF.
- Fixed a bug where links are invisible in conversations.
- Changed long tap on the header, expand button or the side to expand actions as well.
- Added option to mark a post as read/unread in the post option's menu.
The focus of this release is DMs. Direct messages have been difficult to manage and respond to in the past especially for message chains. This release cleans up the DM experience to make them much easier to use.
Full changelog
- Redesigned the DM experience.
- Changed messages in the inbox. Messages sent by you will no longer show up in inbox.
- Make it more obvious when loading in the inbox screen(s)
- Changed the "Mark as read" gesture to toggle the read state of the post. Eg. if a post is read and the gesture "Mark as read" is performed, the post will be marked as unread.
- Added a fade effect to the bottom screen when screens are stacked together. Eg. when viewing a post from the community feed.
- When viewing a reply message in the inbox, added a button in the context section to make it easier to see the post of the reply.
- Fixed a bug where the navigation bar does not highlight the correct item in certain cases.
- Fixed a bug where the open link button is visible when no image is shown in the post list.
- Fixed some bugs that occur when viewing a link to a Lemmy post of another instance.
- Fixed some minor bugs with people search.
v1.40.1
There were some dependency issues so I had to do a version bump. There shouldn't be any changes from the base release though.
v1.40.2
- Fixed a bug where images are not shown/loaded within direct messages.
- Added a full text editor to the send message input field. When sending a direct message, you will be able to tap on the full editor button to open the "advanced text editor" to make it easier to compose more complex messages.
- Fixed a bug where the post in the "context" section of an inbox message would have a random amount of whitespace at the bottom.
