This release will be centered around post/comment templates. I was going to make a WIP after the feature was done but it’s taking forever so making the post now.

My original plan was to crank this out in a week and do a release, simple and easy. However, this feature turned out to be a lot more work than anticipated.

I was first hung up on the UI design of this feature. Then after getting that sorted out, the amount of code/number of moving parts needed to get this working was more than expected. Can’t really give an estimate of when this feature will be done so all I can say is “soon”.

Change so far

• Got the post template editor working.
• Show templates in the draft list screen when composing a post/comment.
• Add a setting for enabling Open AI tools. An Open AI API key will be required for this feature. When enabled, you can check if an image has AI signals from within the app.
• Fix an issue where swiping on the “cross-post” section will not register as a swipe on the post screen even if the “cross-post” section is not wide enough to be scrollable.
• Fix a rare bug where sometimes changes to a comment are lost.

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.

Hello! I was testing community ownership transfer via API and encountered an issue.

This account was previously the owner of the community https://lemmy.world/c/summittestcommunity. I transferred ownership of this community to my other test account @[email protected].

What I didn’t expect is that the transfer went through on lemmy.world end but it did not seem to go through on the lemmy.ca end. So now lemmy.world thinks the community is owned by @[email protected] and lemmy.ca thinks the community is owned by @[email protected].

Neither account can change ownership of the community.

It’s been about 4 hours since I made this change so it seems unlikely this is just a delay.

If someone could help me transfer ownership back to my account that would be appreciated. Thank you!

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