Welcome to the v1.57.0 release. This release is focused on addressing the rest of the user requests.

There’s a lot in this release so read through the changelog to see everything that has been added. Some highlights include adding auto-loading posts when “swipe between posts” is enabled, a new setting that allows you to change the app locale from within the app on any version of Android and some changes to make it easier to identify if an user is new to Lemmy.

This release also marks the start of some major changes to the app that I’ve been considering almost a full year ago.

One of Summit’s strength is the insane number of customizations available to a user. However this also poses a downside as new users may not want to spend hours checking and tweaking every setting. While Summit tries to make sure the default settings are pretty good, it’s obvious that the out-of-the-box settings are not for everyone.

The ideal middle ground is to offer a list of sane defaults, not just one. That way new users can setup the app to their liking while taking only seconds. This is what the next big feature will be aiming to solve.

I’ll provide more details regarding what these specific changes are over the next few releases. As always if you have any questions or suggestions please let me know in the comments.

Full changelog

• Add a setting to choose the direction of swipe gestures. By default this is left-to-right.
• Add a setting to change the default volume of the inline video player
• Add an option to share a community/instance in the community/instance screen.
• Add a setting to choose default app to open URLs with. By default Summit will open URLs within the app however setting a default browser will override this behavior.
• Add a setting to change the locale of the app.
• Add a setting to control whether community suggestions are shown in the community selector bottom sheet.
• Add a setting to enable/disable full bleed images in the full post view.
• Add an option to the “Take screenshot” screen to share the screenshot instead of saving it.
• Change the formatter for post titles. If a post’s title starts with the character ‘#’, it will be escaped. This fixes some edge cases where a post starts with a “hashtag”. Eg. “#summitforlemmy is an ok app for lemmy”.
• Fix a bug on the create post screen. If the webpage (based on the URL field) of a post does not have a valid title, the title will not be suggested.
• Update the design of the user info screen.
• Fix a bug where the settings page will not respect the app language if one is selected.
• Change the app behavior when handling posts with invalid thumnails. In rare cases the thumnail url and the url of the post are the same but the thumbnail url does not link to an image. Previously this would cause the app to not show the image or the link. This release changes the behavior so that the link will be shown in this case.
• Automatically load more posts when the end of the post feed is reached when “swipe between posts” is enabled.
• Change the default of the setting “Show new user tag” to true. New users (accounts that are less than 30 days of age) will display a yellow tag next to their account name.
• Fix a bug where sharing an image would not show a preview of the image being shared.