This release is be focused on polishing the app further.

I've been extremely busy for the past few months and will continue to be busy for the foreseeable future. To help get changes out sooner, this release will be broken down into multiple parts.

Full changelog

• Start migration to Material 3 Expressive, Google's new design system.
• Improve app startup time.
• Improve experience for instances that disable downvotes. Downvote buttons are hidden on the post feed/post screen. Downvote actions on these instances are ignored.
• Improve search support on PieFed instances.
• Improve the feel of bottom sheet menus. Fix a bug where flinging on a bottom sheet does not dismiss the bottom sheet.
• Fix a bug where the wrong image is shown in the post feed.
• Fix a bug where tapping on retry on the load error UI on the search screen will add another load error UI.
• Fix a bug where sometimes the app says there is a network error even though there is an internet connection.
• Fix a bug where the app cannot recover from a network error until the app is restarted.
• Fix some bugs related to "Find in page".

Update

Added more minor changes as part of the v1.71.2 release:

• Fix a bug where the upvote or sometimes downvote button was missing.
• Improve gestures so that the gesture icon is always on screen. This fixes the issue where the gesture icon might be off screen if the post/comment being acted on it very long.
• Improve comment/post editor so that the view will auto scroll to the cursor when the keyboard is opened/closed. This fixes an issue where opening the keyboard would cause the cursor to become offscreen.

Update 2

• Fix a bug where posts are incorrectly marked as read when "Swipe between posts" is enabled.
• Fix a UI bug where reporting on posts will show the progress spinner forever.
• Minor tweaks to post UI.
• Update "Manage internal settings backup" UI.
• Add setting to mark post as read on post hide.
• Add search option to the "more" menu on the community feed screen. Tapping it will open the search page. If tapped within a community feed, the community filter will be auto-set to the correct community.

Update 3

Release changes as v1.71.3. Still super busy so expect slower than usual updates. Going on vacation in 2 weeks. Need to get a bunch of home stuff done and also really busy at work :S

Update 4

Overhauled the paging logic for those who prefer to not use infinite scrolling. The paging code is out of date and it has not been maintained well. This overhaul should fix a lot of bugs. I will also be dogfooding the app with no infinite scrolling for the next couple of days just to make sure all major bugs are resolved.

• Overhauled the app's paging system which is used when infinite scrolling is off.
• Fix a bug where posts with an embedded video link would show only the video and nothing else (eg. no text or URL even if the post has them)

Update 5

Releasing changes as v1.71.4.

Will be tracking the roadmap by year going forwards.

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.
• Revisit how settings (specifically Settings search) is implemented

Specific user requests

• Instead of showing a circle when votes are hidden, show nothing instead.
• 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
• allow admin/mods to comment in locked posts.
• comment headers are still cutting off for super long instance names or user names. (also post headers: https://lemmy.world/post/34057973)
• see if there is a way to check which comments were made since the last time you viewed a post and to highlight them somehow (apparently boost does this?). If this isn't possible, add an option to highlight new posts (maybe with an adjustable time range). 15m seems like a good amount of time.
• Set the ‘hide read posts’ option as default on. So when I load the feed I don’t have to hit ellipses then hide read posts again. Make it persist even if I change sorting mode.
• each post in the feed should have a ‘mark as read’ button I can tap easily, when hit post auto hides.
• a button that scrolls down kind of like the scroll to next comment thread functionality, with the up and down buttons, BUT it scrolls the main feed screen by a page at a time.
• https://lemmy.world/post/29147076/16965825
• add url domain to compact layout (like web)
• add FAB quick action to refresh the post feed.
• add setting to download file to folder based on community: https://lemmy.world/comment/17081662
• https://lemmy.world/comment/16965825
• think about how to support sharing as a ULR and as a "mention".
• share image URL via unproxied link. Details: https://lemmy.world/post/29634477
• add search options to search by special feeds such as subscribed, local, or moderator view.
• 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.
• Add some way to search from within a community (auto-filter by community).
• Add setting to disable recents in community selector.
• Add a way to sort communities by number of times visited on the device: https://lemmy.world/comment/17413948
• Fix "All subscribed" feed bugs. Eg. https://lemmy.world/post/27333742/17419576
• 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 suggestions for community to post to in the create post fragment based on post history
• Add setting to force wrap post/comment headers when using icons.
• Add a "marker" tool to the built in image editor.
• 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 a setting to adjust the maximum height (or maybe width?) of an embedded image (eg. an image within a comment).
• Add setting to the rich text editor toolbar to display a label for each action.
• Hide Downvote Button on Instances with Downvoting Disabled
• Add option to hide actions in the rich text editor toolbar.
• 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 setting to have hide read default to on.
• 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
• Add setting to disable read "state" in the UI for the post feed.
• Add "edit comment" or "edit title" to quick actions. https://lemmy.world/post/35218074
• Add setting to allow "peeking images". https://lemmy.world/post/35237886
• Special state for URLs that are already visited (like in a browser)

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

• Add haptic feedback to some actions such as voting and posting/commenting
• Do not retry on send comment/post errors. Offer a way to retry sending a comment/post.
• Add a setting to disable/enable parsing 4 numbers separated by dots as ip addresses. This is currently always enabled in the app.
• Full content layout but with cards.
• Add an optional "header" design to the community feed. Make the header configurable.
• Add a setting to change the behavior of long pressing ... button in the post screen.
• Feature to allow user to swipe to go to next post.
• Add setting to enable/disable text in bottom nav.
• Support opening instance links in-app. Eg. https://ttrpg.network/
• Add setting to show a label for accounts that are new.
• Allow gestures to work in both directions.
• Make defaults for videos configurable. Eg. Default volume in the post feed.
• Share button in the community info screen.
• Add setting to choose default browser.
• Add something in the settings that instructs the user on how to change the app language.
• Add setting to disable suggestions in the community selector sheet.
• Load more posts when reach end of posts when swiping between posts.
• Add setting to not use full bleed images in full post views.
• Add share option to screenshot screen.
• Make the "actions bar" in the post list configurable.
• Suggest/show previously created tags in tagging dialog.
• More video player settings: hide ui elements when play selected, tap anywhere to play/pause video.
• 3rd option instead of always hiding or always showing avatars: show avatar if set.
• Adjust spacing between posts in posts feed.
• Add setting to make it so that tapping the thumbnail image in list layouts will open the link instead of loading the post below it.
• Reselect "Search" in bottom bar to focus on search bar.
• Add setting to change the gravity of navigation rail buttons. Eg. top, center or bottom.
• Filter posts based on domain of URL.
• Setting to inline images only in DMs.
• Support viewing crossposts of a post.
• Add some font size choices between normal and small.
• update community info screen UI
• surface the create community button in more places (reddit app surfaces this option in the side panel)
• improve the create community screen
• Add a section to the side panel for moderated communities
• Add option to loop videos
• Add option to unblur NSFW images when in NSFW communities
• Add a setting to make op of a post easier to spot
• Add setting to auto focus search bar when search screen selected.
• add setting to hide banner (visibility = invisible) if feed does not have a banner.
• improve how deleted posts are handled - https://lemmy.world/post/27293304.
• Improve moderation tools - https://lemmy.world/post/27333742
• Add detailed unread counts for each category (similar to gmail)
• admin stuff: https://lemmy.world/comment/16862280
• Add thumbnail url field to post screen
• Add "alt text" field to create post screen.
• Allow choosing a language for posts/comment
• Add support for PieFed
• Add screen to view all uploaded content
• several users have brought up the "hide read" filter option. Will need to revisit the best way to do this again.
• Add setting to show bottom bar on post screen
• update Summit's website to state it's open source.
• add a setting to match web for marking inbox items as read. Eg. only mark inbox item as read if reply or if check mark is pressed.
• Add a setting to hide the "Mark all as read" FAB on the inbox screen, some alternative options are to allow users to change what the FAB does or add a warning to the button when pressed.
• add setting to set a max height (by px) for full content layouts.
• Add custom layout setting for inbox screen. Specifically to support a "full" layout.
• maybe surface search within community in more places?
• https://lemmy.world/post/29147076/16862280

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