Summit

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This release adds more haptics in general to the app. It also makes haptic feedback more configurable.

Changes so far:

• Added a new settings page dedicated to haptic feedback.
• Added haptics to more actions.
• Adjusted strength of haptic feedback to be inline with Android's guidelines.
• Added a new experimental feature that automatically marks duplicate posts as read. A duplicate post is a post that has been posted to another instance that is essentially the same as a post that has been read.
• Fixed a bug where links cannot be opened if the preview link setting is set to "Preview all".
• Fixed a bug where thumbnails sometimes won't load.

This release polishes different aspects of the UI. The main changes are to improve contrast in various parts of the app for both light and dark themes.

Full changelog

• Added a setting to disable the text preview icon for certain post feed views.
• Added support for haptic feedback on action buttons in the post feed/post screen.
• Added a setting to enable/disable haptic feedback.
• Fixed a bug where shadow is cut off from the link button in a post.
• Experimental: Added special support for loops.video links.
• Improved the contrast for the search bar in light themes.
• Changed some image thumbnails to be rounded and also have a slight border for contrast.

This is an idea I've had for a while now. Please let me know in the comments your thoughts on this feature.

This is my own feature request. I think the more I use Lemmy the more I find myself ignoring posts I've already read on a separate instance. In theory it doesn't sound like a bad idea to check out the same post from different instances since they have different comments however in practice this is rarely useful. I think a feature that essentially remembers the last ~100 posts you've read/hidden and then automatically filters out any new posts loaded with the same content would be cool.

Specifics:

• Create a "cache" that remembers the last 100-1000 posts that are either read or hidden. This cache is per post feed. It can remember posts based on the title + maybe the first 100 characters of the post body + url (but not image urls since these can differ based on which instance the image is uploaded to). We can exclude any post with a title less than 25 characters and no body.
• For each new post loaded, check against the cache. If the post hits the cache then that post is automatically marked as read. If hide read posts is active, the post is already automatically hidden.
• When a post is read/hidden, all loaded, but unread posts are checked to see if any match the read/hidden post. If they are, they are marked as read.

Possible things to test/include:

• Have the "cache" be based on time. Eg. only things read/hidden within the last 24 hours are checked again. This could be a setting.
• Make the cache global. Eg. check across post feeds. This could be a setting.

Is there a way in Summit to hide or disable text post thumbnails?

Not sure if it exists or not.

Going to try to implement some features. Not sure which ones just yet.

Changes so far:

• Fixed a bug where shadow is cut off from the link button in a post.
• Experimental: Added special support for loops.video links.
• Improved the contrast for the search bar in light themes.
• Added a setting to disable the text preview icon for certain post feed views.
• Added support for haptic feedback on action buttons in the post feed/post screen.
• Added a setting to enable/disable haptic feedback.

I will be doing a release since the release contains a lot of QoL improvements so it makes sense to push this out sooner rather than later.

Full changelog

• Updated the behavior of the "go to" context button in the message inbox screen. Tapping the button to go to a comment will now load the post with just the comment chain by default, with the comment highlighted.
• Fixed a bug where tapping the add link button on the community editor will not actually insert a link.
• Changed the behavior of updating a community. The community info screen will auto-refresh if the community is updated.
• Fixed a bug where the colors used for the image viewer were wrong in light theme.

Changes so far:

• Updated the behavior of the "go to" context button in the message inbox screen. Tapping the button to go to a comment will now load the post with just the comment chain by default, with the comment highlighted.
• Fixed a bug where tapping the add link button on the community editor will not actually insert a link.
• Changed the behavior of updating a community. The community info screen will auto-refresh if the community is updated.
• Fixed a bug where the colors used for the image viewer were wrong in light theme.
• Fixed card shadows in some places.

Update

Just realized I mistakenly titled this post "release" when it's WIP. Updated the title.

This post is a link to imgur. The web ui shows a thumbnail but Summit does not, and when I click the link Summit crashes.

Summit version 1.49.5 on Android 14

@[email protected] can you recreate or do you need more info?

It's on community info

First of all, I am not a psycho for using light mode :p

I use dynamic mode, so I get light mode on the day and dark mode at night, I think having this overlay with dark mode has no visible effect (at least I haven't noticed it with my AMOLED screen), but as you can see it is clearly visible when using light mode.

And now while I am asking for stuff... Can we get the article/link preview as a toggle?

I am having some issues while browsing stuff if I have IPv6 activated (and it is a pain in the ass to deactivate it in Android), I suppose this is an ISP issue... So some image preview takes longer than it should, the same occurs for link previews which can take ridiculous amounts of time. I appreciate the feature and I find it cool, but for my environment it causes more issues than what it offers.

Kudos to the Summit dev, I hope this post doesn't bother you on your vacations!

I'm trying to translate the app but I can't figure out what that is xd

I'm new to using summit and being a Lemmy community moderator. I mostly use my Android phone for everything I do on the Internet unless I absolutely have to use my PC.

My apologies if this has already been discussed.

I was attempting to update the sidebar for a community that I moderate and include some useful links. The link button in the Summit editor doesn't seem to work.

Is this being tracked?

Update: I've added an issue in GitHub: https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy/issues/20

Hello and happy holidays,

Right now, when there is a new reply to a comment of mine, if I wanna go there, the app just transfers me to the post and I have to look for my comment. Is it possible you can do it so it goes directly to the reply I got and maybe highlight it? Kinda how eternity/infinity does it.

Thanks :))

One can not disable this feature or it is a bug. Normally it is only read once clicked.

Also, hiding read resets on every resume of scroll screen.

Welcome to possibly the last major release of the year! As the end of the year approaches, I am planning on taking a short break from developing Summit in favor of going out more and also catching up on some video games.

This update refreshes the layouts of the various card layouts in the app. It aims to make distinguishing between different cards easier and also improving the general look of things.

This update also fixes various bugs as well.

As this update changes the UI of the app, I would greatly appreciate any feedback on the changes. Of course if you have feedback about the UI in any part of the app please feel free to post those too!

Full Changelog

• Updated designs for layouts Card, Card 2 and Card3.
• Fixed a bug where images within tables do not load.
• Fixed a bug where post data does not update after a comment is posted.
• Fixed a bug where post content will sometimes flicker even if nothing has changed.
• Fixed a bug where the shadows of the card layouts were cropped.
• Added a button to the image viewer. If the image being viewed has a higher quality alternative, a HD button will be visible allowing the user to view the alternative image.
• Added a setting for card layouts to control the amount of horizontal margin.
• Fixed a bug where images in a table will not cause the table to resize once loaded.
• Changed the behavior of the image viewer. If a higher resolution of an image is available when an image is previewed, the image viewer will automatically download and view the higher resolution image.
• Changed the behavior of the image viewer. When toggling between a preview and the HD image, the image viewer will remember and restore the zoom level and scroll position.

Very minor Try loading this table on the latest version of the app!

Card	Card 2	Card 3

Update

Minor change to improve QoL. This change will be released as v1.49.1.

• Added a button to the image viewer. If the image being viewed has a higher quality alternative, a HD button will be visible allowing the user to view the alternative image.

Update 2

Added a setting for card layouts to control the amount of horizontal margin. This change will go out in v1.49.2.

Update 3

More changes coming through. The following changes will be available on v1.49.3:

• Fixed a bug where images in a table will not cause the table to resize once loaded.
• Changed the behavior of the image viewer. If a higher resolution of an image is available when an image is previewed, the image viewer will automatically download and view the higher resolution image.
• Changed the behavior of the image viewer. When toggling between a preview and the HD image, the image viewer will remember and restore the zoom level and scroll position.

Update 4

Doing an emergency release as the preview release broken image viewing when viewing an image without an alternative source (eg. HD version). This will be released as v1.49.4.

Update 5

Got a bug report regarding error messages when loading certain images. Will push out a release to fix this (v1.49.5).

• Fixed a bug where sometimes an error message is shown when loading an image even though the image loads.

I have an s24+ with Android 14 but I don't see any pb animations. Setting is on, on both phone & app.

Hello,

I think that you need to improve dynamic Colors cause they are really subtle, so it's mostly white and I also struggle "separating" posts. Also, it would be nice if we could have the option to show post content no matter the base view type :))

I think it's been a while since I've looked around the app and tightened things up a bit so I'm planning to do just that with this release.

First up on the block, I'm not happy with how the card layouts look. I've more of a list layout user myself so I never really looked too much into the card layout designs. However I feel like using them has made me realize that they are lacking. In particular it's still difficult to tell when posts end and begin. To help with this, I've made minor design changes to all 3 card layouts.

Card	Card 2	Card 3

Changes so far

• Updated designs for layouts Card, Card 2 and Card3.
• Fixed a bug where images within tables do not load.
• Fixed a bug where post data does not update after a comment is posted.
• Fixed a bug where post content will sometimes flicker even if nothing has changed.
• Fixed a bug where the shadows of the card layouts were cropped.

This is a pretty big release and there isn't really a theme. It's just a lot of features people have asked for. Enjoy!

P.S. this release changes some of the default settings in the app. In particular they enable multi-line headers in post comments and also profile pictures for the commenter. This is mostly due to screen space usage. After a ton of testing, I think these new defaults should make better use of the screen space and reduce issues with information being truncated. All of these changes can be reversed in the settings if you do not like them.

Full changelog

• Added "Change password" option to the account settings page.
• Added an option to only expand one comment thread when viewing a single comment.
• Added a setting to show/hide the scroll bar on the post feed.
• Added support for user tags.
• Changed the inbox message screen. Sending a reply on the message screen will cause the context screen to update with the comment once it is posted.
• Fixed a bug where comments were not highlighted when they should be. Eg. when a comment is focused.
• Changing some of the default settings. These changes were made as comment header space is limited and these settings improved the layout for comment headers.
  • Use condensed typeface for comment headers: False -> True
  • Comments: Show profile icons: False -> True

Update

There was a design error for the release. There is a slight dimming effect applied to the headers for comments. However this change was supposed to only affect comments. However it was mistakenly applied to all headers. I will issue a fix for this shortly.

Just found out that Summit don't support .avif. Here's post to test it: https://lemm.ee/post/48419248

Is there a way to remove the scroll bar on the right? It's fairly pointless especially in infinite scroll mode.