I'm excited to announce that v1.81.0 of the app is finally ready to be released. This update refreshes the look of the default user experience hopefully for the better.

You can see a screenshot of this new default user experience here:

To make the new user experience possible, three new features have been added to Summit:

1. A new post feed header style named "Compact". This is meant to give the user slightly more information about the community they are browsing without taking up too much of the screen. This will be on by default going forwards. (You can turn off post headers in Settings > Post Feed. You can also revert the style to the previous design.)
2. A new post header style named "Compact". This makes the header on each post prefer a single line instead of two lines, making posts more compact and reducing some redundant information. The post header style can be adjusted on a per-post style basis. In this release only the new List and Compact style will use the "Compact" header style by default.
3. A new post style named "List" (the old "List" style is now named "List (old)"). This style is designed to be much more compact than the previous List style, trying to be a good compromise between the old List style and Compact. This post style is now the default.

As usual, all of these changes can be reverted via settings.

Full changelog

• Add new post feed header style "Compact". This is now the default header style.
• Add new post header style "Compact". This is on by default for the List and Compact post styles.
• Add new post style "List". This is now the default post style.
• Change post feed header to on by default.
• Fix a bug where post/comment scores can get stale and not update.
• Fix a bug where jump to comment button doesn't work.
• Fix a bug where sliders in settings can be finicky.
• Fix a bug where rotating the screen continuously on the post feed will cause the post feed to become blank.
• Fix a bug when loading child comments where only 10 comments can be loaded.
• Add setting to disable generating thumbnails from video urls.
• Fix a bug where spoiler tag aren't parsed if there isn't a space between ":::" and "spoiler".
• Fix a bug where the bottom bar is obstructed in post screen if a post is opened via link.
• Fix a bug where errors in the post feed can block all other UI elements, forcing the user to back out of the app.
• Fix a bug where hide bot accounts setting is not visible.

Update 1
v1.81.1

• Fix a bug where some videos cannot be played from the post feed.
• Fix a bug where the downvotes symbol is shown for comments.
• Fix a few rare crashes.

Update 2
v1.81.2

• Fix comment scores not visible in some cases.

Update 3
v1.81.3

• Fix a bug where videos are shown twice in the post screen.
• Fix a bug where sometimes comments load forever.

Update 4
v1.81.4

• Add new advanced settings to the post appearance screen that gives you fine control over the font sizes of the various UI elements.
• Fix a bug where the description of multi-communities feeds show an error.

Update 5
v1.81.6

• Fix "collapse child comments" setting not working on PieFed.
• Fix a bug where upvoted/downloaded posts screen is empty if hide read web setting is on.
• Fix a bug when "swipe between posts" is enabled, navigating to a different screen and returning will reset the position back to the first post.
• Remove post open/close animation is animation level is set to "Minimum".

Not sure if it's intentional (or just something funky in my settings), but I noticed that the single line comment layout is no longer showing the score for comments unless I expand the actions for them. The multiline layout displays them fine though. This started in 1.81.0 AFAIK.

Sorry about that. Should be fixed now.

Comment vote scores seem to have disappeared. I'm using the compact header style.

This should be fixed in the latest version. Please check for the update on the play store (or github).

I really like the new look!

EDIT: When browsing multi-communities, the community description is set to "Unknown error. Please try again.". It's not a big deal, but you might want to change it for a default text?

Where's my 'subscribed' list button gone??

Which subscribed list button?

I want to find this screen but it's not where it used to be

Ohhh. Tap the title or anywhere near the top.

I highlighted the hotspots in the screenshot below

You can also revert back to the old layout in settings. I will also make a note of this in case I choose to tweak the UI later.

Thank you 🙂👍

Really enjoy your app!

Can you make the title font size adjustable? I would like to have them a little bigger than the other text but currently there is no option.

I like the new header! It makes the UI more interesting.

I usually hate these kind of updates, but this is really well done. 10/10

This update made the app icon disappear for me. I just see the default android logo on draft paper background.

Looks like a my phone issue, all of my apps that were updated overnight lost the icons. Wack

Will fix. Thanks for reporting!

I actually had the foresight to add this in all the way back when designing the settings for the post feed. The settings just aren't visible to the user. I'll add them in in the next release.

Good to hear!

Thank you!

That is weird.

You're doing good work, makes me not even miss the old days of reddit apps. (Wow it's been awhile.)

Thanks!

Hey it looks really good. But how can I get the usage stats like MAU to reappear in a community feed?

They used to appear under the subscribe button IIRC.

You can use the old header style. Go to settings > post feed > post feed header style. Choose original.

Ah thx a lot. I didn't find it myself. Though the option is called "Post feed header version"

Thank you!

Some redgifs and other links don't always show in feed

Do you have an example? Eg. a screenshot or a list of instructions to reproduce the bug?

https://fedinsfw.app/post/357686

Hi. Is this redesign on the roadmap too?
https://lemmy.world/post/43793223

Imho "Full with tiles" + "max lines 7" is the best setting.

Investigated into this. This is not a bug with Summit. The post is marked as a link post and not a video post so the client displays it as a link and not a video.