Will be tracking the roadmap by year going forwards.
Planned changes
- Offline mode (view posts, comment, vote all offline with an offline engine that tracks everything and performs the actions once network is established).
- Setup wizard.
- Extremely out of date version check? (Eg. if the app version you are using is over x versions out of date)
- Export tables as part of export settings. Currently there is a limitation for the import/export settings feature. It only supports settings which are represented as key-value pairs. However some settings are represented as lists and these are stored in tables in a db. This change will require the app to know how to import/export a table as well as possible showing this option to the user.
- Revisit the “more options” menus. Some of them are getting too long.
Specific user requests
- Instead of showing a circle when votes are hidden, show nothing instead.
- Make the “actions bar” in the post list configurable.
- Take screenshot from post feed.
Stretch features (nice to have but I need to do more research)
- Possible integration with mastodon/? (needs research)
- Support Mbin?
- Sync between devices?
Completed
- Add haptic feedback to some actions such as voting and posting/commenting
- Do not retry on send comment/post errors. Offer a way to retry sending a comment/post.
- Add a setting to disable/enable parsing 4 numbers separated by dots as ip addresses. This is currently always enabled in the app.
- Full content layout but with cards.
- Add an optional “header” design to the community feed. Make the header configurable.
- Add a setting to change the behavior of long pressing … button in the post screen.
- Feature to allow user to swipe to go to next post.
- Add setting to enable/disable text in bottom nav.
- Support opening instance links in-app. Eg. https://ttrpg.network/
- Add setting to show a label for accounts that are new.
- Allow gestures to work in both directions.
- Make defaults for videos configurable. Eg. Default volume in the post feed.
- Share button in the community info screen.
- Add setting to choose default browser.
- Add something in the settings that instructs the user on how to change the app language.
- Add setting to disable suggestions in the community selector sheet.
- Load more posts when reach end of posts when swiping between posts.
- Add setting to not use full bleed images in full post views.
- Add share option to screenshot screen.
Hi, can I ask you what was done to tackle this request?
Support opening instance links in-app. Eg. https://ttrpg.network/
I just noticed that it’s marked as “complete”, but if I click on the same link provided in the example, I’m still asked to open the link in the external browser. Is it an option somewhere that I need to toggle on?
The fix for this was a compromise. I initially tried treating all links as possible Lemmy links but it caused a large delay when opening any link. Instead the compromise is to check if the link is a Lemmy link in the link preview dialog. If the link is detected to be a lemmy link an option appears to open the link within the app.
Ooh, I feel dumb. I was tapping “Open link”, didn’t notice that the “tap to open in app” was itself tappable.
Thank you a bunch!
I admit the UI itself can be improved. I’ll leave myself a note to take a look for a future release.
Support kbin?
I just want to note that Kbin is abandoned, it has been forked into Mbin more than a year ago (And Mbin is still actively developed to this day), as a Mbin user I would love more apps to support it, because right now there’s only one app, so the choice is very limited. (And I think Summit looks very cool)
Relevant docs - https://docs.joinmbin.org/
Thank you for your feedback. The stretch features were picked a long time ago. I can update it to Mbin however given how much work there is still planned for the app I’m not sure when this would get done.
