I don't know if I'm just missing something, but is it possible to crop the full image previews to just take up a variable amount of height in the feed (like boost)? I'd prefer my images not take up more than 2/3rds of my full screen height so I can always see the post title.

Hello everyone. I just wanted to announce that it's been over a year since I started working on Summit (I started on June 13th, 2023). This is going to be a quick post as I am still busy with real life stuff but I wanted to commemorate this event.

I wanted to thank the community for the support and also for all of the feature requests, bug reports and the translations. The app has grown tremendously in just a year and I'm excited for the projects planned this year.

Thanks everyone.

Hey, is Summit compatible with 0.19.4 or should I hold off upgrading my instance? Do you develop Summit on latest stable, release clients, or latest (like an insane person)?

Feature request: Place a checkbox next to the currently selected sort which sets "hide read posts".

This way I do not have to issue two requests and two button clicks, if I switch the sort order. This should make the sort-mechanism more convenient.

Additionally one could either shortly show a toast that "automatic hide read posts" was set.

Alternatively a succinct icon could be plaed next to it.

I love the app so far but I am having trouble with opening Lemmy links from other instances. When someone links to say a Lemmy.world post, I am hit with a window saying I have to have a Lemmy.world account in order to vote and such. This is incredibly inconvenient, I don't know how voyager does it but voyager just lets me view the post and vote/etc. in my instance without forcing me to change accounts. Anyway to get rid of this behavior so it is more like voyager? I want other Lemmy links to be opened in my instance so I can vote and such.

Also unrelated but just now I was unable to upload a picture from summit and had to switch apps to upload the photo.

I should have mentioned this months ago. When I tap on the Save icon on a post or comment, I get a notification that the post or comment has been saved yet the Save icon doesn't change. Same if I tap to unsave.

Hello! I haven't posted in a while so I wanted to give a quick update on what is going on with the app.

The next feature I'm working on is quite large. Its offline support which aims to make the app usable offline... to a degree. This feature is going to be made up of several different parts including features to download certain content in advance and have the app respond to network changes.

In addition to this feature I am also working on some physical projects since it is summer where I am. I had a lot of yard work planned for this year so I'm also spending a lot of my free time with that. Due to this and the size of the next update, the next update will likely take a little longer.

Changes so far:

• Changed bookmark button to reflect the current state. Eg. if the post is already bookmarked then the bookmark icon is filled.
• When opening a link to a post on a different instance, added a banner to explaining the instance mismatch and also have an option to switch instances. Also added a loading spinner when switching instances in this way.
• Added a "Make available offline" button to make a feed available offline.

This is a relatively small release. This release adds posts prefetching. This should make loading more posts in the post feed feel faster. This is a crucial change needed to implement offline mode.

This release also adds community icons in both the post feed and the post screen.

Both of these changes are configurable so you can disable one or both if it's not to your liking.

Full changelog

• Added prefetching to the post feed. This should make loading more items in the post feed happen instantly as long as there is a good internet connection.
• Added support for community icons in the post feed.
• Added a setting to enable/disable post feed prefetching. The default is on.
• Added a setting to enable/disable community icons in the post feed. The default is on.
• Change post view to show the community icon if the post list also shows the community icon.
• Fixed a bug where tapping in certain areas of the post will not register the tap.

Update

Made a couple versioning mistakes so this will be released as v1.37.2 instead.

Update

I submitted the release but changes are in review still. It's been in review for over 5 hours so it feels like it's going to take a while before it's released to the play store.

Please upvote my comment below if you want community icons to be on by default. Down vote it if you prefer having them off by default.

Here are some screen shots of what the icons would look like for some layouts:

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The next big feature on the menu is "Offline mode". This feature is difficult to tackle so I'm going to be implementing some other features that should make it easier.

The first is pre-fetching. Prefetching can also improve the base user experience so I will be looking at possible things that can be pre-fetched.

Changes so far:

• Added prefetching to the post feed. This should make loading more items in the post feed happen instantly as long as there is a good internet connection.
• Added support for community icons in the post feed.
• Added a setting to enable/disable post feed prefetching. The default is on.
• Added a setting to enable/disable community icons in the post feed. The default is on.
• Change post view to show the community icon if the post list also shows the community icon.
• Fixed a bug where tapping in certain areas of the post will not register the tap.

Update

I'm changing the default on community icons to "on" since a good portion of you want it on by default. This will be configurable on a per-layout basis so you can always turn it off.

This release burns down more of the backlog as well as continue to improve the app quality further.

The key feature this release brings is NSFW mode. NSFW gives users a fast way to toggle NSFW content outside of settings.

When NSFW mode is enabled, both the blur and NSFW filter settings will be ignored. Instead NSFW posts will always be shown and are never blurred.

This mode is excellent if you want a quick way to switch between browsing SFW content and NSFW content.

Full changelog

• Added NSFW mode. The option to toggle this mode is in the home screen's overflow menu.
• Added NSFW mode as a possible option for the quick action on the home screen's FAB.
• Added an image info screen to the image viewer.
• Added a undo button to restore a deleted post.
• Changed delete post action to update the post deleted automatically. Also deleting a post will show a snackbar allowing the user to undo the action.
• Fixed a minor bug where the background of the inbox screen does not take up the entire height of the screen.
• Fixed a bug when using the screenshot feature to take a screenshot of a comment without the post. Remove the divider at the top of the screenshot that serves no purpose.
• Fixed a bug where sending an image to the app would show a bottom sheet but the bottom sheet would not be expanded.

Just thought of an idea at 4:52 am. What if you could long tap a post you don't like to see, tap something like "snooze posts like this for a week", and then all posts related to the subject would be hidden for a week but the filter will self destruct after the time limit.

Would people be interested in a feature like that?

I came up with the idea after I noticed that Lemmy, like Reddit, will cycle through certain topics. Sometimes you really aren't interested or there's simply too many posts about the topic you just want to tune it out.

Anyways if people want this let me know in the comments!

This release fixes some minor bugs with the app and also adds NSFW mode. When NSFW mode is enabled, both blur and the NSFW filter will be ignored. Instead NSFW posts will always be shown and are never blurred. This mode is excellent if you want a quick way to switch between browsing SFW content and NSFW content.

Changes so far:

• Added an image info screen to the image viewer.
• Fixed a minor bug where the background of the inbox screen does not take up the entire height of the screen.
• Fixed a bug when using the screenshot feature to take a screenshot of a comment without the post. Remove the divider at the top of the screenshot that serves no purpose.
• Fixed a bug where sending an image to the app would show a bottom sheet but the bottom sheet would not be expanded.
• Changed delete post action to update the post deleted automatically. Also deleting a post will show a snackbar allowing the user to undo the action.
• Added a undo button to restore a deleted post.
• Added NSFW mode. The option to toggle this mode is in the home screen's overflow menu.

These two posts were pinned by communities that I follow, but since then they've never disappeared. I don't know if this is intended, but it seems annoying, given that the subscribed tab is all I use.

These post start to get annoying, but I don't knkw how to get rid of them without blocking the OPs for no real reason. :(

This update adds a new feed: all subscribed. This is the first feed that combines the feeds of multiple accounts, it lists posts from your subscribed communities from all of the accounts.

This update also reorganizes the app settings as well as some other changes. See the full changelog below for details

Full changelog

• Added a new setting to hide the UI in the image viewer by default.
• Added a new feed: all subscribed. This feed combines the subscribed feed of all signed in accounts.
• Moved the setting to make the notification bar completely transparent from Misc settings to Theme
• Moved the about and summit community setting options under a new category: About
• Renamed the existing "Post and comments" settings page to "Post and comments appearance".
• Removed the settings page for Comment list and added a new settings page for Post and comments settings.
• Moved the "Post appearance" settings page to be under the "Posts feed" settings screen.
• Moved the "Post and comments appearance" settings page to be under the "Post and comments" settings screen.
• Fixed a bug where performing certain actions in the settings screen will cause all switch based settings to reset to off.
• Fixed a bug where the app mistakes certain links as Lemmy links.

Update

Had to bump to v1.35.1 because I forgot to update the version number. v1.35.1 was submitted to the play store last night but it is still in review almost 24 hours later. Hopefully it gets reviewed soon :x.

Update

v1.35.1 is fully rolled out now.

Not 100% sure if this is a Summit issue or something in Lemmy more generally. Here's the post in question:

https://midwest.social/post/10123989

The link to the blog works on my instance for the desktop. Several other users were reporting the link being broken, and it does break for me on Summit, as well.

When I hit the link on Summit, the requests on the server are GET /api/v3/post?id=2024 and GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All. It looks like it parsed out the "2024" from the original link and tried to use that in a Lemmy API call.

Changes so far

• Moved the setting to make the notification bar completely transparent from Misc settings to Theme
• Moved the about and summit community setting options under a new category: About
• Renamed the existing "Post and comments" settings page to "Post and comments appearance".
• Removed the settings page for Comment list and added a new settings page for Post and comments settings.
• Moved the "Post appearance" settings page to be under the "Posts feed" settings screen.
• Moved the "Post and comments appearance" settings page to be under the "Post and comments" settings screen.
• Added a new setting to hide the UI in the image view by default.
• Fixed a bug where performing certain actions in the settings screen will cause all switch based settings to reset to off.
• Fixed a bug where the app mistakes certain links as Lemmy links.

Update

Haven't posted an update in a while so here it is. I've been working on adding general cross-account support for the past week and it's a big feature so I didn't really have much to update other than it's WIP. If I can't get the feature into a shippable state by this weekend I will do a release without it since there's plenty in this release already.

Note that by cross-account support I mean the supporting acting on a different account without switching the current account. This is a requirement for things like "cross account feeds" eg. multi-account subscribed feed.

We're going back to implementing new features with this release. However just like most release, this one also contains a lot of bug fixes and general improvements.

Full changelog

• 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.
• Added setting to show edited times in post/comment headers. This will be on by default.
• Updated the design of the user profile screen slightly.
• Improve options menus even further.
• Changed user profile images to be tappable in comments.
• Handle Lemmy links to custom frontends.
• Updated translations. (Thank you translators)
• Fixed a bug where comment details do not wrap when collapsed.
• Fixed a bug when viewing information about moderated communities/subscribed communities.
• Fixed a crash when trying to preview an extremely high resolution image.
• Fixed a crash when interacting with spoiler tags.
• Fixed a rare crash.

Update

I accidentally did a release without changing the changelog within the app so I am bumping the version to v1.34.1 to address this issue.

Update 2

Fixed some bugs with the release. Releasing as v1.34.3.

Update 3

Fixed a bug where the edited time displayed was incorrect. This fix is released in v1.34.5.

When tapping on a URL in the post content that points towards a linked post, Summit leads to Page Not Found.

Post to test here. Tapping on the link roadmap for lemmy-ui-next in the post leads to Page Not Found.

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.

New to summit and want same experience like relay but lemmy is a bit weird and not straight forward like reddit please help

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

@[email protected]

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.

Is anyone else having issues with the redgif.coms opening? Is it summit or something else? It seems I can get some to open but the majority just will not. I just wasn't sure if reddit was blocking them.

In this post the image seems to have a transparent background. I'm using the black theme and I only see the black background and a few grey lines. I guess the image shouldn't have a transparent background in the first place, but it is like it is.

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

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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

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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

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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…

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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

@[email protected]\ @[email protected]\ @[email protected]\ @[email protected]\ @[email protected]

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!****

If I sort a multicommunity by 'Hot', it will show all posts from community 1, then all posts by community 2, etc... kind of defying the purpose of a multicommunity at all. I solved it by sorting by 'New' instead, but I figured I'd mention it here because it took me a while to notice - I thought people were not making new posts at all, while in fact, it was just displaying all posts by a lowly populated community first.

Writing this down so I don't forget but to also give the community some insight as well.

My immediate plans for Summit is to support creating and editing communities from within the app. After that I will look at the user requests and try to finish those off again. Once all of that is done I'm going to be doing some fine tuning of the app.

As a daily user of the app, I think the app currently offers a decent base experience for browsing Lemmy but it's not polished; the user experience is a little bare. A lot of features can use some small adjustments to make them nicer to use.

I've been gathering ideas on how certain features can be made better over the past few weeks but this is also a great time to ask the community to bring up any slight annoyances they've had with the app.

Anyways that's all from me for now.

Changes so far:

• 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.
• 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

Some of the minor changes noted here have been released as v1.31.1 so they have been moved to the v1.31.1 release post instead.

Huge thank you to our translators Scambled777, Dieguito and Erik for the new translations! This release pushes translations for Hindi and Italian as well as partial translations for Swedish.

This release also cements Summit's translation process. These are processes I will need to go through on every release to ensure that (1) all translations are up-to-date in every release and (2) proper credit is given to all translators.

Full changelog

• Added support for Hindi (by Scambled777)
• Added support for Italian (by Dieguito)
• Added partial support for Swedish (by Erik)
• Added translators screen to give our translators credit.
• Added list of moderated communities to the user profile screen.
• Remove post & comment score from the profile page. These stats used to be reported by the Lemmy API but they were removed in v0.19. To keep with the spirit of the Lemmy devs I am removing these scores.
• Improve performance of the user actions screen.
• Automatically dismiss notification if user reads inbox item.
• Fixed some text formatting bugs.
• Support per-app language settings on Android 13 and above.
• Fixed a bug where sort would not work for multi-communities.
• Fixed a bug where the "post hidden" snackbar would appear more than one per post hidden.

Update

Due to the multi-community sort bug described here, I am doing a dot release since the bug makes multi-communities nearly unusable.

Changes:

• Added list of moderated communities to the user profile screen.
• Support per-app language settings on Android 13 and above.
• Fixed a bug where sort would not work for multi-communities.
• Fixed a bug where the "post hidden" snackbar would appear more than one per post hidden.

Changes so far:

• Remove post & comment score from the profile page. These stats used to be reported by the Lemmy API but they were removed in v0.19. To keep with the spirit of the Lemmy devs I am removing these scores.
• Improve performance of the user actions screen.
• Automatically dismiss notification if user reads inbox item.
• Fixed some text formatting bugs.
• Added screen to give translators credit.

Update

Working on a big project on the side that's sort of related with the app so development will be a bit slower for a bit (like a week).

It feels silly for me to worry about it, as it means nothing, but is post and content score killed by Lemmy version of the instance or by the app?

I don't see a score in my backup app or on the web, but the spot for it is still in Summit and it had scores until recently. I've been having some issues with image uploads which seems to be local to me, so I'm trying to debug some other stuff and I noticed it had changed.

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Second thing is a feature I was thinking of. Is it possible to have a Random community navigation, or does the decentralized nature prevent that? Now that I'm more in my established rut of communities in read, I miss the random nice from my old Reddit app.

Thanks as always!

This release contains some general improvements to the app as well as a bunch of bug fixes. However, the biggest change from last week is not with the app release. It is the addition of the translations framework put into place. There will be a post about this separately.

Full changelog

• Added a new layout, "list with cards", which is essentially list layout but with cards as it's name suggests.
• Changed the timestamp of posts/comments to show the time when it was published instead of the time it was updated.
• Changed hide post to show a snackbar with an undo button.
• Improve link/image menus and make them more consistent. Long tapping an image will show a more specific image actions menu. Long tapping on embedded images will show the same menu. The overflow button in the image viewer brings up the same menu.
• Fixed a bug where comments in the saved and search screens do not show vote counts and their voting buttons do nothing.
• Fixed a rare bug where videos supported by the app are unable to be played.
• Fixed a bug where the save post button in the quick action menu will do the opposite of what it's supposed to (eg. when it's supposed to save the post it removes it and when its supposed to remove the post from saved, it saves it).
• Fixed a bug where anything wrapped in angle brackets (<like_this>) would be removed from a post/comment.
• Fixed a bug where refreshing on the inbox screen will not auto-scroll to the top of the list.
• Fixed a rare crash that can occur when downloading videos.

A post/comment that was published, say, ten days ago, but edited two days ago, is shown as being published two days ago. Would it be possible to display the date as "10d (2d)" or something similar, to distinguish between the two dates?