These two posts were pinned by communities that I follow, but since then they've never disappeared. I don't know if this is intended, but it seems annoying, given that the subscribed tab is all I use.

These post start to get annoying, but I don't knkw how to get rid of them without blocking the OPs for no real reason. :(

This update adds a new feed: all subscribed. This is the first feed that combines the feeds of multiple accounts, it lists posts from your subscribed communities from all of the accounts.

This update also reorganizes the app settings as well as some other changes. See the full changelog below for details

Full changelog

• Added a new setting to hide the UI in the image viewer by default.
• Added a new feed: all subscribed. This feed combines the subscribed feed of all signed in accounts.
• Moved the setting to make the notification bar completely transparent from Misc settings to Theme
• Moved the about and summit community setting options under a new category: About
• Renamed the existing "Post and comments" settings page to "Post and comments appearance".
• Removed the settings page for Comment list and added a new settings page for Post and comments settings.
• Moved the "Post appearance" settings page to be under the "Posts feed" settings screen.
• Moved the "Post and comments appearance" settings page to be under the "Post and comments" settings screen.
• Fixed a bug where performing certain actions in the settings screen will cause all switch based settings to reset to off.
• Fixed a bug where the app mistakes certain links as Lemmy links.

Update

Had to bump to v1.35.1 because I forgot to update the version number. v1.35.1 was submitted to the play store last night but it is still in review almost 24 hours later. Hopefully it gets reviewed soon :x.

Update

v1.35.1 is fully rolled out now.

Not 100% sure if this is a Summit issue or something in Lemmy more generally. Here's the post in question:

https://midwest.social/post/10123989

The link to the blog works on my instance for the desktop. Several other users were reporting the link being broken, and it does break for me on Summit, as well.

When I hit the link on Summit, the requests on the server are GET /api/v3/post?id=2024 and GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All. It looks like it parsed out the "2024" from the original link and tried to use that in a Lemmy API call.

We're going back to implementing new features with this release. However just like most release, this one also contains a lot of bug fixes and general improvements.

Full changelog

• Added a setting to choose a "quick action" for the post feed floatiing action button (FAB) (button at the bottom). When set, this action will trigger when the FAB is long pressed.
• Added setting to show edited times in post/comment headers. This will be on by default.
• Updated the design of the user profile screen slightly.
• Improve options menus even further.
• Changed user profile images to be tappable in comments.
• Handle Lemmy links to custom frontends.
• Updated translations. (Thank you translators)
• Fixed a bug where comment details do not wrap when collapsed.
• Fixed a bug when viewing information about moderated communities/subscribed communities.
• Fixed a crash when trying to preview an extremely high resolution image.
• Fixed a crash when interacting with spoiler tags.
• Fixed a rare crash.

Update

I accidentally did a release without changing the changelog within the app so I am bumping the version to v1.34.1 to address this issue.

Update 2

Fixed some bugs with the release. Releasing as v1.34.3.

Update 3

Fixed a bug where the edited time displayed was incorrect. This fix is released in v1.34.5.

When tapping on a URL in the post content that points towards a linked post, Summit leads to Page Not Found.

Post to test here. Tapping on the link roadmap for lemmy-ui-next in the post leads to Page Not Found.

I'm going back to implementing more user requests.

Changes so far:

• Updated the design of the user profile screen slightly.
• Fixed a bug when viewing information about moderated communities/subscribed communities.
• Added a setting to choose a "quick action" for the post feed floatiing action button (FAB) (button at the bottom). When set, this action will trigger when the FAB is long pressed.
• Improve options menus even further.
• Handle Lemmy links to custom frontends.
• Added setting to show edited times in post/comment headers.
• Fixed a crash when trying to preview an extremely high resolution image.
• Fixed a crash when interacting with spoiler tags.
• Fixed a rare crash.

New to summit and want same experience like relay but lemmy is a bit weird and not straight forward like reddit please help

Check it out guys. You can mention people super easy now

@[email protected]

Welcome to v1.33.x.

This release is going to be a little different from the others.

While other releases are centered around big features or tasks, this release is centered around a large number of small changes.

Due to this, I am going to be breaking this release into multiple small point releases. The reasons for doing so are:

1. Since this release doesn't hinge on any big task's completion, there is nothing stopping me from doing releases after completing a number of small tasks.
2. Each change is aimed at improving the user experience. Thus getting these changes out as quickly as possible is important. There's no reason to prolong the end user's suffering from a less polished experience.

As always please feel free to provide any feedback/bug reports in the comments.

Full changelog

v1.33.5

• Auto-clear notifications if user looks at inbox screen.
• Updated the UI of the community info screen.
• Fixed a bug where the FAB button would be in the wrong spot if the keyboard is opened and closed.
• Fixed some minor bugs when searching for communities.
• Fixed a bug where image previews are blurry.
• Fixed some image viewer bugs.

v1.33.4

• Mention suggestions. When creating a post or comment, mentions (starting with ! or @) will show suggestions based what is typed.
• Changed long tap on an image in the post list to open the image options menu. Previously it would preview the image full screen. This change was made to make long tapping more consistent (long tapping things usually opens a context menu).
• Image preview redesign. Move buttons to the bottom of the screen for easier access. Translucent UI. UI auto hides on zoom.
• Fixed a bug with the layout "Large list" where images would be clipped on the sides.
• Fixed a bug where tapping "Share image" will cause the share sheet to show up constantly.

v1.33.3

• Rework the community options menu. Organized and updated the options shown.
• Added subscribe/unsubscribe as an action to the community options menu & link menu (for communities).
• Added a solid background color to community and profile icons so they don't look odd when placed in front of a banner.
• Added undo button to save post/comment snackbar.
• Fixed some snack bar layout issues.

v1.33.2

This is equivalent to release v1.33.1. It's unique to the Github release and was done to address a build issue.

v1.33.1

• Fixed two rare-ish crashes.
• Overhauled the community navigation logic. This should hopefully eliminate more navigation bugs.

v1.33.0

• Update message layout on the inbox screen to clearly indicate the sender and receiver.
• Better blocking experience. Blocking a user/community or instance should now show a snackbar when the action completes with a button to undo.
• Link menu enhancements. Long tapping "links" (eg. user name) will show more rich options that are specific to the link type. For instance long tapping a community link will show community options as well as link options.
• Removed setting "sharing images directly". Due to the link menu enhancements, the setting for "sharing images directly" is now obsolete because both options are always present for images.
• Fixed a bug where WEBM videos will not play.
• Fixed some weird navigation bugs.

Is anyone else having issues with the redgif.coms opening? Is it summit or something else? It seems I can get some to open but the majority just will not. I just wasn't sure if reddit was blocking them.

In this post the image seems to have a transparent background. I'm using the black theme and I only see the black background and a few grey lines. I guess the image shouldn't have a transparent background in the first place, but it is like it is.

I'm going against my original plans which was to implement user suggestions and instead jumping into polishing and fine tuning of the app. Enough stuff in the app bother me that I just want to clean it all up sooner rather than later.

v1.33.5

This will be the last v1.33.x release. This release should add the rest of the tweaks I had in mind.

Changes so far:

• Auto-clear notifications if user looks at inbox screen.
• Updated the UI of the community info screen.
• Fixed a bug where the FAB button would be in the wrong spot if the keyboard is opened and closed.
• Fixed some minor bugs when searching for communities.
• Fixed a bug where image previews are blurry.
• Fixed some image viewer bugs.

v1.33.4

Changes so far:

• Mention suggestions. When creating a post or comment, mentions (starting with ! or @) will show suggestions based what is typed.
• Fixed a bug where tapping "Share image" will cause the share sheet to show up constantly.
• Changed long tap on an image in the post list to open the image options menu. Previously it would preview the image full screen. This change was made to make long tapping more consistent (long tapping things usually opens a context menu).
• Image preview redesign. Move buttons to the bottom of the screen for easier access. Translucent UI. UI auto hides on zoom.
• Fixed a bug with the layout "Large list" where images would be clipped on the sides.

v1.33.3

Changes so far:

• Rework the community options menu. Organized and updated the options shown.
• Added subscribe/unsubscribe as an action to the community options menu & link menu (for communities).
• Added a solid background color to community and profile icons so they don't look odd when placed in front of a banner.
• Added undo button to save post/comment snackbar.
• Fixed some snack bar layout issues.

Old (v1.33.1)

Changes so far:

• Fixed two rare-ish crashes.
• Overhauled the community navigation logic. This should hopefully eliminate more navigation bugs.

Old (v1.33.0)

Changes so far:

• Update message layout on the inbox screen to clearly indicate the sender and receiver.
• Link menu enhancements. Long tapping "links" (eg. user name) will show more rich options that are specific to the link type. For instance long tapping a community link will show community options as well as link options.
• Removed setting "sharing images directly". Due to the link menu enhancements, the setting for "sharing images directly" is now obsolete because both options are always present for images.
• Fixed a bug where WEBM videos will not play.
• Fixed some weird navigation bugs.

Update

Going to keep this post alive even though v1.33.0's release is imminent. This is because I will be implementing many more changes as point releases (eg. v1.33.1, v1.33.2, etc) and I will update this post accordingly.

This release adds the ability to create, edit or even delete communities. It also includes some very minor QoL improvements and bug fixes.

Full changelog

• Added an option to the Import & Export settings page to backup and reset your current settings.
• Added support for editing communities.
• Added support for creating communities.
• Added option to delete a community.
• Update back behavior. Tapping back while on a community that is not the home community will take you back to the home community instead of exiting the app.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes a vertical line would appear on the right side of the screen.
• Fixed a bug where you can't swipe left to leave a post in certain situations.

Sorry guys but the year in review was an April fools joke. I don't collect any personal data from users so it's very difficult if not impossible for those graphs/infographics to be real. If people want a real year-in-review with real stats I'm going to actually have to think of ways to collect data anonymously with user consent. Anyways, hope the joke wasn't too mean :D.

This was the April Fools joke for 2023. All stats/graphs are made up. See https://lemmy.world/post/13817624 for details.

Hi everyone! I know it’s a bit late for a year in review but I’ve been extremely busy with the app’s development and I only recently had some downtime.

2023 was a crazy year for me. It was the start of the end of Reddit for me and it led to the creation of Summit for Lemmy. Since Summit’s inception, I’ve been collecting ton of stats from the users to help improve the app and for other uses. I’ve compiled all of the data for 2023 into some cool infographics that I thought would be interesting to share. These stats will also be the baseline I will use for future data collected.

Note that all of the data below were collected from 2023. It does not include data from 2024.

To start it off let’s take a look at some high level stats from 2023.

Summit Users - High Level Stats

For high level stats, the numbers are pretty much what you’d expect. Most Summit users do have at least one account on lemmy.world. This makes sense since it’s the largest server by far. The only slight variance here is that lemmy.ca actually makes it to the top 5 instances for Summit users.

Summit Users - Community Stats

The top community stats amongst Summit users tracks pretty closely with community popularity. The time spent per community however paints a pretty surprising picture. Note that the # of visits and hours spent are not shown to respect user’s privacy.

Summit Users - By Country

This infographic was actually pretty difficult to make. Unsurprisingly a lot of Summit’s users reside in English speaking countries. This is expected since Summit in 2023 was not localized and only supported English.

Note: The geographic location is generated from user’s IP addresses. IP addresses from VPNs are filtered out.

Summit Users - Awards

This is a new tradition I want to start and I am very excited about it. I came up with several awards and created some heuristics to determine the winners for each award based on the stats. Every year I will pick new winners and we can start a Summit hall of fame.

For this year, our award winners are…

Note: For password strength, I used an open source library that output a number between 0.0 and 1.0 for each password based on some heuristic. I will not disclose the exact library used so that users cannot game the system if I choose to do this again for 2024.

Please join me in congratulating 2023’s award winners

@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]

Let's give a huge round of applause for each of them.

Final thoughts

All-in-all, 2023 was an amazing year for Summit for Lemmy. The app was created, hundreds of features were added and we gained so many users. So to all of Summit’s users I want to give everyone a big thank you! May 2024 bring even more excitement!****

If I sort a multicommunity by 'Hot', it will show all posts from community 1, then all posts by community 2, etc... kind of defying the purpose of a multicommunity at all. I solved it by sorting by 'New' instead, but I figured I'd mention it here because it took me a while to notice - I thought people were not making new posts at all, while in fact, it was just displaying all posts by a lowly populated community first.

Changes so far:

• Remove post & comment score from the profile page. These stats used to be reported by the Lemmy API but they were removed in v0.19. To keep with the spirit of the Lemmy devs I am removing these scores.
• Improve performance of the user actions screen.
• Automatically dismiss notification if user reads inbox item.
• Fixed some text formatting bugs.
• Added screen to give translators credit.

Update

Working on a big project on the side that's sort of related with the app so development will be a bit slower for a bit (like a week).

It feels silly for me to worry about it, as it means nothing, but is post and content score killed by Lemmy version of the instance or by the app?

I don't see a score in my backup app or on the web, but the spot for it is still in Summit and it had scores until recently. I've been having some issues with image uploads which seems to be local to me, so I'm trying to debug some other stuff and I noticed it had changed.

Second thing is a feature I was thinking of. Is it possible to have a Random community navigation, or does the decentralized nature prevent that? Now that I'm more in my established rut of communities in read, I miss the random nice from my old Reddit app.

Thanks as always!

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

This release contains some general improvements to the app as well as a bunch of bug fixes. However, the biggest change from last week is not with the app release. It is the addition of the translations framework put into place. There will be a post about this separately.

Full changelog

• Added a new layout, "list with cards", which is essentially list layout but with cards as it's name suggests.
• Changed the timestamp of posts/comments to show the time when it was published instead of the time it was updated.
• Changed hide post to show a snackbar with an undo button.
• Improve link/image menus and make them more consistent. Long tapping an image will show a more specific image actions menu. Long tapping on embedded images will show the same menu. The overflow button in the image viewer brings up the same menu.
• Fixed a bug where comments in the saved and search screens do not show vote counts and their voting buttons do nothing.
• Fixed a rare bug where videos supported by the app are unable to be played.
• Fixed a bug where the save post button in the quick action menu will do the opposite of what it's supposed to (eg. when it's supposed to save the post it removes it and when its supposed to remove the post from saved, it saves it).
• Fixed a bug where anything wrapped in angle brackets (<like_this>) would be removed from a post/comment.
• Fixed a bug where refreshing on the inbox screen will not auto-scroll to the top of the list.
• Fixed a rare crash that can occur when downloading videos.

A post/comment that was published, say, ten days ago, but edited two days ago, is shown as being published two days ago. Would it be possible to display the date as "10d (2d)" or something similar, to distinguish between the two dates?

In the linked comment I can't see the text between "less than" and "greater than" (like a HTML ).

The Save Post icon (circled in the image) seems to only remove posts from my saved list, not add them. To save a post I have to use the contextual menu in the bottom right corner of the screen.

Not 100% what to do about translations just yet. For now I've set up a website to allow for crowd source translations here: https://translate.idunnololz.com/projects/summit/summit/

Changes so far:

• Fixed a bug where comments in the saved and search screens do not show vote counts and their voting buttons do nothing.
• Fixed a rare bug where videos supported by the app are unable to be played.
• Added a new layout, "list with cards", which is essentially list layout but with cards as it's name suggests.
• Fixed a bug where the save post button in the quick action menu will do the opposite of what it's supposed to (eg. when it's supposed to save the post it removes it and when its supposed to remove the post from saved, it saves it).
• Fixed a bug where anything wrapped in angle brackets (<like_this>) would be removed from a post/comment.
• Changed the timestamp of posts/comments to show the time when it was published instead of the time it was updated.
• Fixed a bug where refreshing on the inbox screen will not auto-scroll to the top of the list.
• Changed hide post to show a snackbar with an undo button.
• Fixed a rare crash that can occur when downloading videos.
• Improve link/image menus and make them more consistent. Long tapping an image will show a more specific image actions menu. Long tapping on embedded images will show the same menu. The overflow button in the image viewer brings up the same menu.

Update

I will make a more proper announcement about translations later. For now, the translation thing is just something I wanted to share since this is a [WIP] post and it is very much work in progress. I'll update the community via edits to this post but once I have more concrete plans I will make an official post.

Update 2

Been a busy week so not too many updates on the translations just yet. I have more time now and I think this is my current plan for it:

1. ~~I will set up continuous integration with Weblate (the localization website). This means that changes to strings within the project are auto-updated on the localization website.~~
2. ~~I will comb through all strings in the app and add comments/context to them as necessary and delete unused ones.~~
3. ~~I will push the update to the localization website.~~
4. I will make an announcement that the localization website is ready for use. From this point on, any volunteers can freely add translations and they will be included in future releases.

This is my current plan of attack. I'll post updates as I check off things in the list.

Update: Done step 1.

Update: Done step 2. That took a very long time.

Update: Done step 3.