This is a small release that took a huge amount of work.

For those who don’t know the v1 release of Lemmy has been in beta for a while now. The v1 release of Lemmy ships with Lemmy API v4 with backwards compatibility with Lemmy API v3.

Lemmy API is the shared language of how clients (Summit) and server talk to one another. Lemmy releases are loosely tied to API versions. So for instance, Lemmy v0.19 (which is the version most servers use) only supports Lemmy API v3. Currently Summit only supports v3 of the Lemmy API. This release adds support for API v4.

This is mostly a future proofing measure since Lemmy v1 will still support API v3. Since Lemmy v1 isn’t released yet it’s likely there are still bugs in the API v4 support implementation as there were many massive changes. Due to this API v4 is disabled by default. Once Lemmy v1 releases and I can verify the app is stable with API v4 it will be turned on by default.

So basically this update doesn’t actually add anything, yet.

Full changelog

• Add support for Lemmy API v4.
• Fix a crash when viewing users who voted on a post/comment on PieFed instances.
• Fix a bug where errors encountered when downloading videos are reported as successes.
• Fix a bug where videos using VP9 encoding fail to download.

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.

Update 3

Fix more bugs. (v1.82.6)

• Fix navigation bar sometimes showing/not showing when it should.
• Fix a bug where read post state are lost when app is recreated in certain cases.
• Fix a bug where card shadows are clipped in some screens.

Update 3

Pushed a release that broke the inbox so I’m fixing it. (v1.82.7)

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
• https://lemmy.world/post/29147076/16965825
• https://lemmy.world/comment/16965825
• think about how to support sharing as a URL and as a “mention”.
• share image URL via unproxied link. Details: https://lemmy.world/post/29634477
• 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 setting to optionally use a GIF’s metadata to determine whether to loop or not instead of auto-looping.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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)

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)

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