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Summit - A Lemmy reader

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A fast and simple Lemmy reader.

Hello! I recently just released a Lemmy reader app for open beta. I've been working on the app since the black out about a week ago.

The app is will very much a work in progress however the core reader functionality should be working. I will continue to work on the app and estimate it will likely like a month before all core features will be implemented.

That being said, I've been having a lot of trouble browsing Lemmy on web and I still think the app is an upgrade over the raw web experience.

If anyone is interested please give the app a try and let me know what you think!

Here's a quick demo as well: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MMpMHwzTuII

Update

I started a community at https://lemmy.world/c/summit. I will try to post frequent updates there.

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Summit for lemmy Beta'dan çıktı.

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Summit @lemmy.world

Summit v0.1.9

Big update that adds comment posting

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General Discussion @lemmy.world

Summit - Lemmy Reader - Apps on Google Play

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Is it on F-droid?
- I second this. Will it be open source in the future?
- Unfortunately it is unlikely that I will open source this project but we shall see. I respect the open source community, I just historically have enjoyed working close source more.
  
  how can one enjoy working close source? You are welcome to keep your devlopment private, rather than putting it on an open source development protal like GitHub, and just release it under the GPL so the rest of us can learn from your work, without you having to put up with annoying "developers" on the internet.
  
  That is unfortunate, true.
  
  So you don't care about your users then. You don't want them to be able to see what your app does on their device and be able to control it.

Is it on fdroid and is it foss? I have no access to google play or any other google service by choice and i only use foss apps whenever possible.
- Second this! After everything we've been through with Reddit and Twitter, a lot of users are wary of closed-source/closed-data apps and services. Open source values are what brought us to Lemmy in the first place! An open source app is in keeping with that.
- This will be proprietary. We need to support Libre Software instead. For example Jerboa app.
- May I ask why you don't use any of those?
  
  Because google exerts centralizing control over things. Where i live here in the US if you are not on the play store you may as well not exist. I am led to understand that in much of the eastern world such as china having multiple app stores and such is quite common. I personally choose not to use services from these large companies firstly to limit their abuse of my data, and secondly because most of these companies are american and must bow the knee to the american governmyth to continue to exist. The internet was made to not have a central point of failure, yet what would happen if Google, AWS, and Microsoft all just vanished? Complete chaos would happen over much of the internet and the largest impact would be to western companies.

Do you have a public git for this?
- The author said in another comment that it will be proprietary.
  
  Aw 😥 I would have liked to contribute to it.

Hell yeah man, you cranked that out so quick, I don't know what language you're writing it in, but let me know if you want some help with any features, I'd love to pitch in!
I'm a mid level dev
- The work is pretty manageable at the moment so I should be ok. Thank you for the offer!
  
  No prob, let me know if that changes!

Oh yeah, I just found a bug with upvoting :(. I'll try to do a quick release in a bit.
- An update with the fix has been submitted to the play store. It should become available in 30 - 60 minutes.

Nice progress so far, the UI looks clean and easy to use. Though the name Reader is a little confusing to me - is it only for viewing / reading posts, or will you also be able to create new ones and comment on them?
- tl;dr is everything is WIP. The goal is that you will be able to do everything and more that you can from the website within the app. I’ll make a post about the current priority list on https://lemmy.world/c/summit later today.

Getting some RiF vibes, and that's such a refreshing feeling in a era of bloated corporate apps.
I like it a lot so far.

Nice and clean UI, I like it! Still missing quite a few functions (unless I'm blind) though.
Can I currently only browse 'all', or 'local' for lemmy.ml, beehaw.org and lemmy.world? Or is there a way to switch to subscribed or local for other instances that I just didn't find?
- Subscriptions will be added in a future version. This was a very barebone release just to get early feedback test for bugs.

Nice app. Feels a lot better than jerboa already, even if it's just in early access. Have high hopes for this. Keep it up!

Damn, seem like a nice app. Coming from the Baconreader for Reddit app, this feels more familiar than Jerboa. It's also one of the fastest feeling apps on my Nokia 7.2 (which is getting quite slow in some apps). Not feature-rich enough yet to replace Jerboa, but I'm keeping an eye on it nonetheless
- I love BaconReader to death, so you've just sold it for me. Gonna go try it.
  
  Keep in mind that it's currently not really finished. It probably can't be your main app (yet)

This is excellent. I started work on an android app cause it seemed like nobody was doing anything. This is already looking like i should have just been patient.
Its so much nicer to use than jerboa, i just hope its feature par with jerboa soon so i can hop ship
Edit: please also consider uploading to FDroid?
- I started work on an android app cause it seemed like nobody was doing anything.
  Have you heard about Jerboa?
  
  Using it now. Fair to say its pretty bad

Damn mate, this is pretty substantial already. Well done!
- Yeah it turned out pretty good for 1 week worth of work while working a full time job. Now to keep this up for at least another month :D

Gave it a spin. Looking good so far. And yeah, there is definitely a voting bug.
- Looks great! This'll be fun to watch come together, good work!
  
  Thank you!

Not appearing for me at all in the play store. I'm in the US if that matters.
- The app is in open beta. Open beta apps are not listed on the play store, however you can still download them if you know the exact link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idunnololz.summit

Major props to you! This feels really slick so far, and I'll definitely be excited to see where Summit and all of the other upcoming Lemmy apps go!

Neat! Hope you don't mind but it reminds me of early Reddit Is Fun. Good luck!
- That was one of the inspirations. Thanks!

I really like it. It's fast and feels nice to use, with a tighter interface. I'll be looking forward to it getting more features.

Awesome! I'm trying out both Jerboa and Summit

Is this compatible with kbin?
- I have no idea. You can try to see if you can sign in. I assume kbin and lemmy's APIs differ so I would say no, but I've not tested anything.

Good job, looks great!

Pretty nice app!
What's the "Goto" thing? "Enter reddit link"?
Also is there a way to view my subbed communities as a feed? And where is the list of communities in my sidebar pulled from?
Any plans for open source?
- What’s the “Goto” thing? “Enter reddit link”?
  Goto was a debug option that was supposed to be hidden in the release build. But I must have messed something up LOL.
  is there a way to view my subbed communities as a feed
  Not at the moment. Implementing the community tracker (left pane) will likely be the next thing I work on.
  where is the list of communities in my sidebar pulled from?
  This is just a list of the biggest communities.

This is great! Thank you for sharing :)

What are the chances for an iOS one? :D

Shows promise. Two recommendations:
Use or have an option for Android 12's "Material You" colour scheme
Open source it

Nice app but this icon will make your app 100% better

Really nice job so far! If you don't mind me asking, how did you manage to get around CORS? I've started tinkering with the official JS client and ran into issues.

Looking good! I'm excited to be able to eventually view only my "subscribed" feed though.

Great app so far. Would love and option to disable the bottom tab bar completely.
- I'll note it but this isn't likely to be implemented any time soon since there are a huge amount of more critical features in the backlog.

Kudos on this effort. Will give it a try and wishing you all the best with your work on this app.
- Thanks!

Very nice! Thank you for this, keep on the good work!

Seems very good after using it for a couple minutes, excited to see it's future!

feels nice, but i can't login to lemmy.world, it always gives me "incorrect password". login via web and jerboa works fine.
- Hmm that is odd. All of my test accounds are on the lemmy.world instance but I haven't encountered any issues. I can try looking more into it. Can you double check there is no mispelling with the instance name (lemmy.world) or the user name?
  
  I had a 64 character password. I now changed it to 32 characters and it works. Is there a character limit on the password field?
- Just logged in without issues.

This really closes the circle on leaving reddit for me. Fantastic news!

It would be great to have navigation buttons allowing to quickly jump between threads and to hide comments by clicking on them, which are my favorite features from Boost for Reddit.

Wow, that's really impressive progress in that amount of time! Keep it up, I love what I'm seeing!

You might wanna change that developer name.
Love how smooth this is compares to jerboa

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