This release is dedicated to all the admins and moderators who are keeping our instances and communities running.

This release adds additional moderation tools/features. In particular, it improves the mod logs screen and adds support for more mod things (private message reports, registration applications).

The release has been in the works for a while, so I've decided to make it live now although some additional features are planned and in the works. I'm still working on more changes and I will tack them on to this release as patch updates as they become ready.

I'm currently on a trip to visit family, so I will be slower to respond/work on the app in general.

As always, feel free to leave feedback in the comments. Enjoy!

Full changelog:

• Add inbox section for new account applications (for admins).
• Add support for approving/declining new account applications (for admins).
• Add support for viewing a detailed list of votes for posts/comments (for mods/admins).
• Add option to view moderation actions by user to the post/comment/person menu.
• Add a new section in the search screen "Random communities". This section shows a random list of 10 communities that has at least one post.
• Add a setting to show/hide deleted posts.
• Add per-section unread counts to the inbox side panel.
• Add support for creating private message reports.
• Add support for viewing private message reports. (The screen to view this is really crappy. This will be fixed in a patch update later.)
• Update community/inbox side panel UI a bit.
• Replace the image editing library the app uses with a different one that actually works.
• Remove "cross-posted from:" text that is auto-inserted when cross-posting so that the behavior is consistent with current web.
• Fix a bug where the title does not update in the post screen when the comment sort order is changed.
• Fixed a bug where instances are not displayed for users when they should be.
• Fix a bug where images do not load if on a private instance.
• Fix a bug where back ticks can break text formatting.
• Fix a bug where the navigation rail does not hide when the side panel is shown.
• Fix a bug where double tapping send can cause an action to be performed twice.

Update

There was a bug I knew about that I forgot to fix before I released the app (this is what I get for rushing a release). I will fix it in a dot update:

• Fix a bug where the unread screen of the inbox will not load unless you are an admin.

Update 2

Fixed the inbox for regular users but it was still broken for mods. Fixed in v1.64.2.

Update 3

Bump the version to v1.64.3. This release is identical to v1.64.2 but I forgot to do a version bump for v1.64.2.

Update 4

Fix some bugs with the release. Released as v1.64.4.

• Add cake day.
• Fix a bug where the app would crash randomly.
• Fix a bug where sometimes downloading an image would fail without an apparent cause.
• Make the post predictive back animation more apparent.

Update 5

Working on more things:

• Fix a bug where selecting one of the inbox screen categories fast will cause items from two categories to appear at the same time.
• Add a shortcut to go back to the "Unread" category in the inbox by tapping the inbox button when it's already selected.

This release implements a large number of "low hanging fruit" user requests. The majority of these are customizations in the form of additional settings. See the full changelog for all settings added by this release.

As usual, this release also brings with it a number of bug fixes.

Full changelog

• Update community info screen
• Update create community screen
• Add create community button to bottom nav
• Add moderated communities to community pane
• Add a new "medium-small" font size option
• Add setting for default video repeat mode
• Add setting to not blur NSFW content when browsing NSFW communities
• Add a setting to prefer display names for users (as opposed to "names").
• Add a setting to prefer titles for communities (as opposed to "names").
• Add a setting to choose between three unique ways to label the OP.
• Add a setting to auto-focus the search bar when the search screen is first shown.
• Add a setting to hide the banner if the post feed has no banner.
• Make more things long-tappable. This should help make the user experience feel more consistent.
• Improve image downloader to guess image file type if image file has no extension.
• Fix a bug where the sort order changes on orientation change
• Fix a bug where bullets and numbered lists show slightly outside of spoiler tags
• Fix a bug where some of the UI elements in the built-in image editor had the same color as the background.
• Fix an issue where inline images are sometimes too small.
• Fix a bug on Samsung devices where back gestures can accidentally trigger swipe gestures.
• Fix a bug where the sort order resets when navigating away from the search screen and returning.

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.
• improve how deleted posts are handled - https://lemmy.world/post/27293304.
• Add option to navigate by side bar (like the OG apps from material 1)
• Improve moderation tools - https://lemmy.world/post/27333742
• Add thumbnail url field to post screen
• Allow choosing a language for posts/comment
• Add screen to view all uploaded content
• Add setting to show bottom bar on post screen
• Add custom layout setting for inbox screen. Specifically to support a "full" layout.
• 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.
• add setting to set a max height (by px) for full content layouts.
• https://lemmy.world/post/27608794
• several users have brought up the "hide read" filter option. Will need to revisit the best way to do this again.
• update Summit's website to state it's open source.
• allow admin/mods to comment in locked posts.
• comment headers are still cutting off for super long instance names or user names.
• 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.
• 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.
• maybe surface search within community in more places?
• https://lemmy.world/post/29147076/16862280
• 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
• admin stuff: https://lemmy.world/comment/16862280
• 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
• Add detailed unread counts for each category (similar to gmail)
• 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

Stretch features (nice to have but I need to do more research)

• Possible integration with mastodon/? (needs research)
• Support Mbin? Piefed?
• 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.

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