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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25640887

Welcome to the v1.54.0 release.

The main focus of this release is to make it easier for users to give feedback. This is achieved in a few ways. The first is a redesigned feedback dialog that makes it clearer which methods are available to submit feedback. The second is a new feedback editor that lets users submit feedback easier. It also automatically snaps a screenshot and allows you to easily attach it to your feedback. The third way that makes giving feedback easier is the new shake to send feedback feature which allows users to submit feedback on any part of the app just by shaking their device.

Of course, this release also contains a huge amount of other changes. One notable change is the addition of a new indicator for the "You" screen. This indicator is shown if there are any new failed actions. Eg. if a user sends a comment and that comment fails to be posted for some reason, the new error indicator will alert the user of this fact. This addition completes the user actions work started in the last release.

Full changelog

• Add new feedback dialog.
• Add new shake to send feedback feature.
• Add action errors count. A badge will appear on the You navigation item if there are any action errors that have not been seen yet. This improves the visibility of action errors.
• Improve the cache graph in the app (Settings > Cache) to show more details about disk space usage.
• Improve mention suggestion heuristics.
• Improve load speed for You screen.
• Improve "mark duplicate posts as read" to also work when a post is hidden.
• Improve You screen header layout by dynamically adjusting the sizes of certain elements based on the screen size.
• Handle links for more instances when a link is tapped outside of Summit. This change only affects Android 11 or below devices.
• Change message screen. When the context card is expanded, the app will automatically scroll to the relevant comment.
• Show an error message when trying to share and image that cannot be loaded.
• Show ellipsis when messages are too long to display in the inbox screen.
• Remove dividers from "Your actions" screen.
• Fix a bug where adding a comment when viewing a specific comment in a post will not show the newly added comment.
• Fix an issue where the upvote/downvote arrows are not colored for the compact layout.
• Fix an issue where NSFW mode is not respected in some screens.
• Fix padding issues with some buttons.
• Fix a few crashes.

Update

A user reported some issues with the failed actions indicator. Fixing the issue and re-releasing as v1.54.1.

• Fix a bug where the failed actions indicator does not update if all failed actions are cleared.

Update 2

This should be the final minor update for this release. This minor patch fixes a few crashes, some UI issues and some general unpleasantness. This will be released as v1.54.2.

• Show an error message when trying to share and image that cannot be loaded.
• Show ellipsis when messages are too long to display in the inbox screen.
• Remove dividers from "Your actions" screen.
• Fix a few crashes.

Update 3

Release should be out for everyone now.

I am planning on adding user feedback related things this update. A sub-goal of this release is to also increase the number of reviews/ratings on the play store in a noninvasive way. I think it's great that a lot of people are already giving feedback, I just wanted to increase awareness of the feedback system in place.

This release aims to surface the feedback option in various menus. The purpose of these changes are to help identify common pain points for users, give users an easy way to report these pain points and to increase visibility for feedback options.

The other planned change is to update the feedback system to make it easier to give feedback. This includes adding more shortcuts to things related to feedback.

Changes so far:

• Fixed a bug where adding a comment when viewing a specific comment in a post will not show the newly added comment.
• Handle links for more instances when a link is tapped outside of Summit. This change only affects Android 11 or below devices.
• Auto-scale You screen header based on screen size.
• Fix an issue where the upvote/downvote arrows are not colored for the compact layout.
• Fix an issue where NSFW mode is not respected in some screens.
• Improve the cache graph in the app (Settings > Cache) to show more details about disk space usage.
• Fix padding issues with some buttons.
• Improve mention suggestion heuristics.
• Change message screen. When the context card is expanded, the app will automatically scroll to the relevant comment.
• Improve load speed for You screen.
• Add action errors count. A number badge will appear on the You navigation item if there are any action errors that have not been seen yet. This improves the visibility of action errors.
• Improve "mark duplicate posts as read" to also work when a post is hidden.
• Add new feedback dialog.
• Add new shake to give feedback feature.

Update

Been sick since Friday. Nothing too serious but its making me sleep a lot. There is a good chance this release will take longer than usual.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25109976

This is a pretty big release so I will roll this release out slowly.

The bulk of the release changes how actions work internally in the app. Actions are anything that a user performs that directly causes a change. Eg. creating a post or comment.

Changes to user actions were made to address an issue of the app. In the old version of the app, create post and create comment actions would be retried on network error. This caused issues where duplicate posts and comments can be created. To address this issue posts and comments will no longer be retried on error. Instead users will be given the option to retry these actions manually.

To facilitate these changes, the release refreshes the UI for the user actions screen and adds a shortcut on the "You" screen. It adds an additional details screen that can be seen by tapping any actions in the user actions screen. This new details screen allows users to retry/rerun an action or delete an action.

This release also continues to iterate on the "hide duplicate posts" feature introduced previously. This feature is still considered experimental as I anticipate further changes are necessary to make it usable.

This release also include many bug fixes and smaller user requests. See below for details.

Full changelog

• Add shortcut to user actions screen in the "You" screen.
• Add details screen for a user action.
• Add ability to retry/rerun or delete actions.
• Redesigned the user actions screen to be more user friendly.
• Made the user stats tappable on the "You" screen.
• Change post/comment actions to not retry. This is to prevent duplicate posts/comments.
• Rename "auto-hide duplicate posts" to "mark duplicate posts as read".
• Improve mark duplicate posts as read to recognize crossposts and original posts as the same post.
• Improve markdown parsing for inline code.
• Fix a bug where loading inbox pages past page 1 would cause the wrong page to be loaded.
• Fix scrolling issues on the inbox screen.
• Fix inconsistent theme issues in dialogs.
• Fix bugs where duplicate posts were not correctly being marked as read when "mark duplicate posts as read" is enabled.
• Update translations.

Update

Pulled in all the latest translations. Releasing as v1.53.1.

This is a pretty big release so I will roll this release out slowly.

The bulk of the release changes how actions work internally in the app. Actions are anything that a user performs that directly causes a change. Eg. creating a post or comment.

Changes to user actions were made to address an issue of the app. In the old version of the app, create post and create comment actions would be retried on network error. This caused issues where duplicate posts and comments can be created. To address this issue posts and comments will no longer be retried on error. Instead users will be given the option to retry these actions manually.

To facilitate these changes, the release refreshes the UI for the user actions screen and adds a shortcut on the "You" screen. It adds an additional details screen that can be seen by tapping any actions in the user actions screen. This new details screen allows users to retry/rerun an action or delete an action.

This release also continues to iterate on the "hide duplicate posts" feature introduced previously. This feature is still considered experimental as I anticipate further changes are necessary to make it usable.

This release also include many bug fixes and smaller user requests. See below for details.

Full changelog

• Add shortcut to user actions screen in the "You" screen.
• Add details screen for a user action.
• Add ability to retry/rerun or delete actions.
• Redesigned the user actions screen to be more user friendly.
• Made the user stats tappable on the "You" screen.
• Change post/comment actions to not retry. This is to prevent duplicate posts/comments.
• Changed inbox screen to automatically update more frequently.
• Rename "auto-hide duplicate posts" to "mark duplicate posts as read".
• Improve mark duplicate posts as read to recognize crossposts and original posts as the same post.
• Improve markdown parsing for inline code.
• Fix a bug where loading inbox pages past page 1 would cause the wrong page to be loaded.
• Fix scrolling issues on the inbox screen.
• Fix inconsistent theme issues in dialogs.
• Fix bugs where duplicate posts were not correctly being marked as read when "mark duplicate posts as read" is enabled.
• Update translations.

Update

Pulled in all the latest translations. Releasing as v1.53.1.

Update 2

There was a change planned that was supposed to go out with this release but I forgot about it. I'm enabling it and releasing as v1.53.2.

The change is a QoL for the inbox screen. It felt awkward to see a notification for something new in your inbox, open the app, already be on the inbox screen but then have to manually refresh to see the new item. The change will cause the inbox screen to automatically fetch updates when certain conditions are met which should mean you will need to manually refresh less,

• Changed inbox screen to automatically update more frequently.

This is Sencha on his original cat tree that we got when he first adopted him. It's pretty old and falling a part a bit from wear and tear. We tried to get him a new car tree but he still loves to use his original tree. Momo on the other hand loves the new tree. I guess now they each have their own cat tree.

This update will be focused on overhauling the actions system within the app.

Currently the app records histories for some actions and is also smart enough to retry certain actions. All of this stuff happens behind the scenes. Although users can see the actions history, it is buried in the settings screen.

The retrying logic also has some issues. For instance, retrying adding comments/posts can result in duplicate comments/posts. This is very undesirable.

This release will focus on tweaking the actions system, overhauling the UI giving users more visibility and power when viewing action history as well as giving users a way to retry a failed action.

In the coming release, comments or posts that fail to send due to network issues will immediately error and will not be retried. They will be stored in the actions history so the comment/post is not lost and the user will be able to manually retry to send them. While this solution is a bit manual, it at least works better than the existing system.

Changes so far:

• Made the user stats tappable on the "You" screen
• Fix a bug when loading inbox message/items past page 1 where it would load the wrong page.
• Fix some scrolling issues on the inbox screen.
• Fix some inconsistent theme issues.
• Redesigned the user actions screen.
• Add details screen for user actions.
• Add ability to retry/rerun or delete actions.
• Change post/comment actions to not retry. This is to prevent duplicate posts/comments.
• Rename "auto-hide duplicate posts" to "mark duplicate posts as read".
• Improve mark duplicate posts as read, handling some cases where duplicate posts were not recognized before.
• Improve mark duplicate posts as read to recognize crossposts and original posts as the same post.
• Improve markdown parsing for inline code.

This release updates the haptic feedback in the app, adding more haptic feedback to actions and adjusting some of the haptics that already exist. It also adds a new settings screen specifically for adjusting haptic feedback.

Full changelog

• Added a new settings page dedicated to haptic feedback.
• Added haptics to more actions.
• Adjusted strength of haptic feedback to be inline with Android's guidelines.
• Added a new experimental feature that automatically marks duplicate posts as read. A duplicate post is a post that has been posted to another instance that is essentially the same as a post that has been read. This feature is off by default.
• Fixed a bug where links cannot be opened if the preview link setting is set to "Preview all".
• Fixed a bug where thumbnails sometimes won't load.
• Fixed a bug where the last swipe action on a post is accidentally replayed.

Update

Noticed that not all thumbnail links were fixed. Pushing another release (v1.52.1) to fix even more thumbnails.

Update 2

Pulling in some new translations. Releasing as v1.52.2.

Update 3

Special note for one bug I finally tracked down. There was a period of time where the oddest things would happen when I was in a post where I thought I was losing my mind. I would upvote a comment, return to the post and see that the comment was not upvoted. Or I would post a comment and then after, the comment dialog would popup multiple times. This was extremely confusing as none of the logs indicated anything had even gone wrong. The "ghost votes" would appear in the logs as though I had went back to the comment and removed my vote manually.

After a lot of manual testing, I was finally able to track this issue down and it has to do with how swipe actions work.

When a swipe action is initiated, the app remembers the last swipe action. When you swipe and then let go the app triggers the last swipe action saved. This allows you to drag the swipe action slider as far as you want and as long as you are in the correct region when you let go, the right action will be taken.

The issue is when the action is triggered, it does not clear the last saved action.

This normally wouldn't cause any issues except if you are also using gesture navigation.

A gesture navigation gesture is just a regular swipe except the starting point is near an edge of the screen.

For a back gesture, the user first has to touch the edge of the screen and then swipe inwards. During the first part of the gesture, Android doesn't actually know yet if the action is going to be a back gesture. So at that stage Android will let the app handle the gesture. Only once the finger slides far enough does Android realize it's a back gesture and take ownership of the gesture. At this point Android will cancel the swipe gesture on the app's end so it can handle the gesture gracefully.

When Android tells Summit to cancel the swipe action, Summit was incorrectly assuming it was a valid swipe action because the last swipe action was set. Summit would then trigger that action. The fix is simple. The last swipe action just needs to be cleared whenever a swipe action is triggered.