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Self reminder to look into the following:

• wording issue in sign up message
• editing a comment shows the old comment still
• if hide read toggle is on, refreshing will not show a snackbar with the number of hidden posts

tl;dr If you want to skip the wall of text, please just tell me in the comments whether you want to keep the existing functionality of the Hide read action or if you prefer to change it to a toggle or something else entirely.

The Hide read action in the app hides all read posts. Behind the scenes, it also "flips a switch" so that any read posts loaded into the feed are filtered and hidden as well.

It makes the action sort of weird because it is both an action and a toggle built into the same button.

The purpose of the button is it guarantees that the user will only see posts they have not seen before. It's an extremely valuable feature and one that I use in almost every session.

Historically, the action works like this because back when the feature was first added, I asked the community for feedback about what the button should so and this is what we decided on.

In the past year or so, I have gotten more feedback about the button with many users asking if we can change the button to a toggle or something else.

So I decided to survey the users again to see if we can get to a common ground. If we cannot agree on one behavior I can also add a setting.

There are two options that I think would make the most sense:

1. Keep the existing behavior and make no changes to Hide read.
2. Turn Hide read into a toggle (eg. a switch).

To highlight the difference in behavior between option (1) and (2), with option (1) after you tap Hide read, if you refresh the feed, the app will revert back to showing everything. With option (2), after you flip the switch, your feed will refresh but will continue to only show unread posts.

Of course if you want to propose a completely different behavior from the 2, feel free to do so as well.

Hello! I am getting 400 errors when hitting the piefed.social. Hitting other piefed instances appear to work.

The exact error I get is:

{"code":400,"message":"{'my_user': {'instance_blocks': {0: {'site': ['Missing data for required field.']}}}}","status":"Bad Request"}

As an example I get this error when I make a GET request to https://piefed.social/api/alpha/site.

Note that I am making with request without an Authorization header.

Update

It seems that only alpha/site endpoint is broken. I can GET https://piefed.social/api/alpha/federated_instances just fine.

Changes so far:

• Add support for "Atkinson Hyperlegible™ Font" as a custom font option.
• Add uploads screen. This is accessible from the You screen and will show you all of the media you've uploaded.
• Tweaked some default settings. Changed shake to report feedback from On to Off. Changed Material You from Off to On.
• Fix drop shadow on the old comment/post warning card.
• Fix a bug where only the first line of a registration application is displayed.
• Fix a bug where commenting when viewing a single comment chain causes weird behavior.
• Change the version item in About settings to copy the version code if long tapped.
• Fix a bug where an inbox message context is not shown because the comment thread is auto-collapsed due to downvote threshold being met.
• Add registration application rejection templates.

Add support for PieFed.

Full changelog

• Add support for PieFed.
• Fix a bug where when you open a post, the spinner will appear to stutter for a moment.
• Fix a bug where pulling to refresh on the post screen will cause all comments to refresh even if they have not changed.
• Fix a bug where inline images will sometimes not load until the screen is refreshed.
• Fix a bug where "Prev" button doesn't load the page if pressed on page 2 when Infinity mode is off.

Update

Fix some bugs and re-releasing as v1.67.1

• Add some default PieFed instances to the login form auto-complete.
• Fix a bug where you can't log into PieFed with a password with more than 60 characters.

Update 2

Release should be fully rolled out now.

The community got the required number of votes to force me to add PieFed support which is what this release will be focused on.

This has the potential to be a huge change. At the time of writing, I'm still doing exploration work so I'm not sure how long it will take. It could take a couple of days or a couple of weeks depending on what I find.

In the meantime, I did fix some bugs.

Changelog so far

• Fix a bug where when you open a post, the spinner will appear to stutter for a moment.
• Fix a bug where pulling to refresh on the post screen will cause all comments to refresh even if they have not changed.
• Fix a bug where inline images will sometimes not load until the screen is refreshed.
• Fix a bug where "Prev" button doesn't load the page if pressed on page 2 when Infinity mode is off.
• Add support for PieFed.

Update

Wrapping up PieFed support. Current release ETA is tomorrow (July 15th, evening). The main known bug at the moment (that I will not address) is that certain fields on PieFed use HTML instead of Markdown. The fix isn't hard, it just requires the app to include some dependencies that will increase the app size. Once PieFed is more stable, I'll add support for HTML then but for the time being I will hold off on HTML support.

It's been a long time since Summit first supported creating post/comment in the app. Since then, Lemmy has added several new features to posts and comments. This update brings feature parity between Summit and Lemmy, adding support for things such as alt-text and custom thumbnails.

This update also continues to polish the user experience further. The aim is to make the app a treat to use.

This update adds another layer of caching for images. When navigating to a post with an image, the thumbnail will be used while the source image loads. This should result in a smoother, more magical experience.

I'm going to be generous and leave the PieFed post up for one more release but I will definitely reset it next release. If you want Summit to support PieFed please upvote this post: https://lemmy.world/post/31899935 .

Full changelog

• Add a "detailed view" to the mod logs. Tapping a mod log event in the event list will open up a detailed view, showing full details of the mod log event.
• Update add/edit post screen to support custom thumbnails, alt text and language.
• Update add/edit comment screen to support specifying a language.
• Improve performance on post feed and post screen.
• Improve post viewing experience by showing the thumbnail image if it's available while the full image loads.
• Slight optimization rendering the action buttons on posts in the post feed.
• Change icon & splash background based on system theme (eg. light background for light theme, dark background for dark theme).
• Changed person/community mention auto-complete to insert just the mention by default. Eg. previously tapping on the suggestion idunnololz@lemmy.world would insert [@idunnololz@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/idunnololz), after the change tapping it would insert @idunnololz@lemmy.world. Add a long-press menu with the option to insert the full link.
• Fix a bug where punctuation is included in the url. Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/. is parsed as https://en.wikipedia.org/. instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/)
• Fix a bug where sometimes the inbox screen doesn't auto-refresh when you open it.
• Fix a bug where the cake icon will not correctly center in the line.

Update

Made some more improvements to how the app handles mentions. Hopefully this change will put a stop to all of the mention bugs. Doing a release as v1.66.1.

• Improve how mentions are handled. This indirectly fixes various mention bugs.
• Fix a crash when switching to an invalid instance on the guest account.

Update 2

Release v1.66.3 to fix a bug that prevents users from posting anything. (skipped v1.66.2 because I made a mistake).

Update 3

Found a few crashes introduced by this released. I did a quick fix for these and submitted it to the olaystore for release however the app was rejected due to some of the NSFW functionality. To resolve these issues I went along with how other apps typically handle these and require the user to sign in to see NSFW functions.

Apologies for anyone affected by these changes.

These changes are released as v1.66.5.

• Fix a crash when using custom actions in the post feed.
• Fix a rare crash that can occur when loading context in the inbox screens.
• Require user to be signed in to see NSFW features.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31900024

Welcome to v1.65.

This release brings some general polish to the app, rounding out some rough edges and aims to improve the overall user experience.

The major change included in this update is a fully fledged save/restore system for post feeds. This system works under the hood so you shouldn't notice any changes to the app. This system aims to make leaving and returning to the app a more predictable experience. You should no longer lose your place in the post feed.

If you preferred the old experience, this new save & restore system can be disabled in Settings > Post feed.

There are a lot of other minor improves too such as improved error handling and text editing. See the change log for more details.

Last but not least, I am going to start gauging interest for PieFed support starting from this release. If you want Summit to support PieFed please upvote this post: https://lemmy.world/post/31899935 .

Full changelog

• Save and restore post feeds on app recreation. This should make the app behave in a more predicable way. Eg. if you leave the app for extended period and come back, the app should now preserve exactly where you were before you left. No more losing your spot!
• Add setting to toggle save/restore post feeds on app recreation.
• Improve error messages.
• Manually add a workaround to get img.gvid.tv links to work in the app.
• Fix issue where some images won't load.
• Fix issue where user profile screen doesn't change when current account changed.
• Fix issue where "save post" button state doesn't reflect actual state of whether the post has been saved or not in certain cases. Eg. if the post is saved, the save post button should be filled.
• Fix navigation rail bugs when the navigation rail is on but large screen support is off.
• Fix a bug where comment timestamps do not update on refresh.
• Improve some of the text editor functions. Eg. better insert link logic, better quote, bullet list and numbered list logic.
• Fix a crash when downloading images.
• Fix crop tool's guidelines/overlay blending in with the image.
• Fix issue where text would wrap in the post/comment header when it's not supposed to.
• Fix video lock rotation button icon to show the lock icon when orientation is locked and not show the lock

Update 1

Some bug fixes to be tacked on:

• Fix a crash when downloading images.
• Fix crop tool's guidelines/overlay blending in with the image.
• Fix issue where text would wrap in the post/comment header when it's not supposed to.
• Fix video lock rotation button icon to show the lock icon when orientation is locked and not show the lock icon when orientation isn't locked.

Update 2

Rolling out the changes above as v1.65.1.

Will probably update create post/comment screens in this update.

Changes so far:

• Change icon & splash background based on system theme (eg. light background for light theme, dark background for dark theme).
• Fix a bug where punctuation is included in the url. Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/. is parsed as https://en.wikipedia.org/. instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/)
• Changed person/community mention auto-complete to insert just the mention by default. Eg. previously tapping on the suggestion idunnololz@lemmy.world would insert [@idunnololz@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/idunnololz), after the change tapping it would insert @idunnololz@lemmy.world. Add a long-press menu with the option to insert the full link.
• Improve mod logs further. Add a "detailed view" to the mod logs. Tapping a mod log event in the event list will open up the a detailed view.
• Slight optimization when rendering the post feed.
• Update add/edit post screen to support custom thumbnails, alt text and language.
• Update add/edit comment screen to support specifying a language.
• Fix a bug where sometimes the inbox screen doesn't auto-refresh when you open it.
• Improve post viewing experience by showing the thumbnail image if it's available while the full image loads.
• Improve performance on post feed and post screen.
• Fix a bug where the cake icon will not correctly center in the line.

Update

This release is technically ready, but I am not happy with the performance of the app. From daily use, it appears that general app performance has been declining. I will issue a release once I deem performance to be acceptable.