I'm going back to implementing more user requests.

Changes so far:

• Updated the design of the user profile screen slightly.
• Fixed a bug when viewing information about moderated communities/subscribed communities.
• Added a setting to choose a "quick action" for the post feed floatiing action button (FAB) (button at the bottom). When set, this action will trigger when the FAB is long pressed.
• Improve options menus even further.
• Handle Lemmy links to custom frontends.
• Added setting to show edited times in post/comment headers.
• Fixed a crash when trying to preview an extremely high resolution image.
• Fixed a crash when interacting with spoiler tags.
• Fixed a rare crash.

Check it out guys. You can mention people super easy now

@ballsdeep@lemmynsfw.com

Welcome to v1.33.x.

This release is going to be a little different from the others.

While other releases are centered around big features or tasks, this release is centered around a large number of small changes.

Due to this, I am going to be breaking this release into multiple small point releases. The reasons for doing so are:

1. Since this release doesn't hinge on any big task's completion, there is nothing stopping me from doing releases after completing a number of small tasks.
2. Each change is aimed at improving the user experience. Thus getting these changes out as quickly as possible is important. There's no reason to prolong the end user's suffering from a less polished experience.

As always please feel free to provide any feedback/bug reports in the comments.

Full changelog

v1.33.5

• Auto-clear notifications if user looks at inbox screen.
• Updated the UI of the community info screen.
• Fixed a bug where the FAB button would be in the wrong spot if the keyboard is opened and closed.
• Fixed some minor bugs when searching for communities.
• Fixed a bug where image previews are blurry.
• Fixed some image viewer bugs.

v1.33.4

• Mention suggestions. When creating a post or comment, mentions (starting with ! or @) will show suggestions based what is typed.
• Changed long tap on an image in the post list to open the image options menu. Previously it would preview the image full screen. This change was made to make long tapping more consistent (long tapping things usually opens a context menu).
• Image preview redesign. Move buttons to the bottom of the screen for easier access. Translucent UI. UI auto hides on zoom.
• Fixed a bug with the layout "Large list" where images would be clipped on the sides.
• Fixed a bug where tapping "Share image" will cause the share sheet to show up constantly.

v1.33.3

• Rework the community options menu. Organized and updated the options shown.
• Added subscribe/unsubscribe as an action to the community options menu & link menu (for communities).
• Added a solid background color to community and profile icons so they don't look odd when placed in front of a banner.
• Added undo button to save post/comment snackbar.
• Fixed some snack bar layout issues.

v1.33.2

This is equivalent to release v1.33.1. It's unique to the Github release and was done to address a build issue.

v1.33.1

• Fixed two rare-ish crashes.
• Overhauled the community navigation logic. This should hopefully eliminate more navigation bugs.

v1.33.0

• Update message layout on the inbox screen to clearly indicate the sender and receiver.
• Better blocking experience. Blocking a user/community or instance should now show a snackbar when the action completes with a button to undo.
• Link menu enhancements. Long tapping "links" (eg. user name) will show more rich options that are specific to the link type. For instance long tapping a community link will show community options as well as link options.
• Removed setting "sharing images directly". Due to the link menu enhancements, the setting for "sharing images directly" is now obsolete because both options are always present for images.
• Fixed a bug where WEBM videos will not play.
• Fixed some weird navigation bugs.

I'm going against my original plans which was to implement user suggestions and instead jumping into polishing and fine tuning of the app. Enough stuff in the app bother me that I just want to clean it all up sooner rather than later.

v1.33.5

This will be the last v1.33.x release. This release should add the rest of the tweaks I had in mind.

Changes so far:

• Auto-clear notifications if user looks at inbox screen.
• Updated the UI of the community info screen.
• Fixed a bug where the FAB button would be in the wrong spot if the keyboard is opened and closed.
• Fixed some minor bugs when searching for communities.
• Fixed a bug where image previews are blurry.
• Fixed some image viewer bugs.

v1.33.4

Changes so far:

• Mention suggestions. When creating a post or comment, mentions (starting with ! or @) will show suggestions based what is typed.
• Fixed a bug where tapping "Share image" will cause the share sheet to show up constantly.
• Changed long tap on an image in the post list to open the image options menu. Previously it would preview the image full screen. This change was made to make long tapping more consistent (long tapping things usually opens a context menu).
• Image preview redesign. Move buttons to the bottom of the screen for easier access. Translucent UI. UI auto hides on zoom.
• Fixed a bug with the layout "Large list" where images would be clipped on the sides.

v1.33.3

Changes so far:

• Rework the community options menu. Organized and updated the options shown.
• Added subscribe/unsubscribe as an action to the community options menu & link menu (for communities).
• Added a solid background color to community and profile icons so they don't look odd when placed in front of a banner.
• Added undo button to save post/comment snackbar.
• Fixed some snack bar layout issues.

Old (v1.33.1)

Changes so far:

• Fixed two rare-ish crashes.
• Overhauled the community navigation logic. This should hopefully eliminate more navigation bugs.

Old (v1.33.0)

Changes so far:

• Update message layout on the inbox screen to clearly indicate the sender and receiver.
• Link menu enhancements. Long tapping "links" (eg. user name) will show more rich options that are specific to the link type. For instance long tapping a community link will show community options as well as link options.
• Removed setting "sharing images directly". Due to the link menu enhancements, the setting for "sharing images directly" is now obsolete because both options are always present for images.
• Fixed a bug where WEBM videos will not play.
• Fixed some weird navigation bugs.

Update

Going to keep this post alive even though v1.33.0's release is imminent. This is because I will be implementing many more changes as point releases (eg. v1.33.1, v1.33.2, etc) and I will update this post accordingly.

This release adds the ability to create, edit or even delete communities. It also includes some very minor QoL improvements and bug fixes.

Full changelog

• Added an option to the Import & Export settings page to backup and reset your current settings.
• Added support for editing communities.
• Added support for creating communities.
• Added option to delete a community.
• Update back behavior. Tapping back while on a community that is not the home community will take you back to the home community instead of exiting the app.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes a vertical line would appear on the right side of the screen.
• Fixed a bug where you can't swipe left to leave a post in certain situations.

Sorry guys but the year in review was an April fools joke. I don't collect any personal data from users so it's very difficult if not impossible for those graphs/infographics to be real. If people want a real year-in-review with real stats I'm going to actually have to think of ways to collect data anonymously with user consent. Anyways, hope the joke wasn't too mean :D.

This was the April Fools joke for 2023. All stats/graphs are made up. See https://lemmy.world/post/13817624 for details.

Hi everyone! I know it’s a bit late for a year in review but I’ve been extremely busy with the app’s development and I only recently had some downtime.

2023 was a crazy year for me. It was the start of the end of Reddit for me and it led to the creation of Summit for Lemmy. Since Summit’s inception, I’ve been collecting ton of stats from the users to help improve the app and for other uses. I’ve compiled all of the data for 2023 into some cool infographics that I thought would be interesting to share. These stats will also be the baseline I will use for future data collected.

Note that all of the data below were collected from 2023. It does not include data from 2024.

To start it off let’s take a look at some high level stats from 2023.

Summit Users - High Level Stats

For high level stats, the numbers are pretty much what you’d expect. Most Summit users do have at least one account on lemmy.world. This makes sense since it’s the largest server by far. The only slight variance here is that lemmy.ca actually makes it to the top 5 instances for Summit users.

Summit Users - Community Stats

The top community stats amongst Summit users tracks pretty closely with community popularity. The time spent per community however paints a pretty surprising picture. Note that the # of visits and hours spent are not shown to respect user’s privacy.

Summit Users - By Country

This infographic was actually pretty difficult to make. Unsurprisingly a lot of Summit’s users reside in English speaking countries. This is expected since Summit in 2023 was not localized and only supported English.

Note: The geographic location is generated from user’s IP addresses. IP addresses from VPNs are filtered out.

Summit Users - Awards

This is a new tradition I want to start and I am very excited about it. I came up with several awards and created some heuristics to determine the winners for each award based on the stats. Every year I will pick new winners and we can start a Summit hall of fame.

For this year, our award winners are…

Note: For password strength, I used an open source library that output a number between 0.0 and 1.0 for each password based on some heuristic. I will not disclose the exact library used so that users cannot game the system if I choose to do this again for 2024.

Please join me in congratulating 2023’s award winners

@mozzarella@sh.itjust.works
@KodaTheBadger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
@CanadianBeaver@lemmy.ca
@ChromaticDoor76@lemmy.world
@ballsdeep@lemmynsfw.com

Let's give a huge round of applause for each of them.

Final thoughts

All-in-all, 2023 was an amazing year for Summit for Lemmy. The app was created, hundreds of features were added and we gained so many users. So to all of Summit’s users I want to give everyone a big thank you! May 2024 bring even more excitement!****

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