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submitted 1 month ago by ByteMe@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27182706

At the time of writing Summit for Lemmy should be completely open source.

After a lot of contemplation I've decided to open source the app. There are still some changes that probably need to happen before it can be considered "FOSS" but this is a huge step I think.

As I'm voiced my opinions on this previously, the main repository for Summit will not be to the public for PRs. If you encounter bugs or have any feature requests please continue to send them through the proper channels (ideally to this community).

Enjoy~~

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[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 19 points 1 month ago

I don't know what it is, I went to the repo on github to read the readme, I still have no idea what it is. There is not a single sentence which explains what this is.

At the top it says it's something for Lemmy, at least I know what Lemmy is, but most people don't. So it might be a plugin, a theme, a frontend, an app, who knows.

Later it mentions apk, so perhaps it's a android app, for phone or some car or other embedded devices?

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hello I'm the developer here. The reason why the readme is completely unhelpful is simple. I wrote it for myself. It was a readme i wrote for myself on how to do certain things LOL.

Probably the best solution short term is to jist like yo the website at the very top: https://summit.idunnololz.com/.

Edit: also in my defense the code repo was open sourced less than 24h ago on a whim and I've had a few bugs I've been trying to tackle all week:

https://lemmy.world/post/26898510

https://lemmy.world/post/26820418

https://lemmy.world/post/26988956

[-] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

I love that you link Obtanium. This is the first time I saw an app dev actually linking to Obtanium. Getting your FOSS app update directly from the git repos without the google bs around it just seems logical.

[-] Goretantath@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

Ah so the name is a joke on the word "summary" gotcha.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] adhocfungus@midwest.social 18 points 1 month ago

This drives me crazy with software websites and GitHub repos. Sometimes they'll give you a hint that involves other undefined things like, "This lets you use Floorp with Bibix."

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 23 points 1 month ago

It's a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.

[-] adhocfungus@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

If I saw that in a repo I would 100% believe it. I've seen so many that are just as baffling.

This is… far, far too real

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Even worse when the first link to talk about what you’re looking at is just a discord link

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

It's an Android Lemmy client. The app just went public so it needs some repo refinement

[-] Condiment2085@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

Gonna download now and give it a try. Currently using Boost but trying a few different options to see what works best. A lot of people suggested Voyager but I didn't like it very much.

[-] Condiment2085@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Shit this is pretty good

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Boost is good but it has ads and it hasn't been updated for long. Voyager is nice but I'm not happy with the iOS design on Android

[-] helios@social.ggbox.fr 4 points 1 month ago

You can pay for ad-free. It's an affordable one time purchase and it supports the dev's work.

[-] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

You can block ads

Thunder is my personal recommendation with Raccoon being my next choice.

If you're interested that is. Otherwise just pretend I was never here.

[-] javacafe01@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've been a Thunder user for a while. Just tried out Summit, and it has been much smoother and polished for me.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Tried Raccoon just now, uninstalled instantly. Not very polished compared to other apps. My personal opinion.

Good thing there's so many options for people to find what they're looking for.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That's the beauty 🥰 And no corporate authority that says the apps have to be removed for any reason ✊

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'm trying it out right now, it doesn't feel very polished compared to others I main, like Sync or Boost.

[-] Condiment2085@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I agree in some ways and not in others. Having no ads gives Summit a big leg up for me, but there are some interfaces that aren't super intuitive.

On Android (not sure if it's on iOS) I like that it feels more native than boost.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Ads can be bad but Boost has a one-time small payment to remove ads, very good deal, and the ads on Sync don't work (for me at least) 99% of the time, so I just see an empty space most of the time where the ads would be. 😁

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 0 points 1 month ago

If you like FOSS, I'd recommend giving Thunder a try: https://thunderapp.dev/

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Using Thunder right now. Yet another app that doesn't have properly functioning code formatting buttons for both inline code markup and code blocks. And it makes no distinction between single back ticks and triple back ticks. Ah well.

The rest of the features and design are pretty sick though, I'm trying to main it and I'm not feeling uncomfortable yet!

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 month ago

Open an issue? Devs are pretty responsive.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I might do that if I find the time, yeah ❤️

[-] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

This is great! I've tried so many clients and Summit is the one I like best.

[-] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 6 points 1 month ago

Love summit, glad to hear this welcome evolution.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] heleos@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I loved sync for reddit, and even paid for the ad-free version on Lemmy, but I'm on summit now. Dev attentiveness and interaction is a 180 from the sync dev, and summit is great to use

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Nice. Hopefully somebody puts it up on FDroid.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It's on my to-do but the process seems annoying potentially so we'll see. I just wanted to open source the project so there is at least some progress. I was finding myself making long lists of shit to do before I can open source the project but you know what fk those lists and just open source it now. Ask questions later. :D

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Haha sometimes you just need to rip off the bandaid

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Really good stuff. Obviously do what you can and it's great you're open sourcing the project. That's always a good thing imho. I just made the suggestion to get it up on FDroid as a lot of people who love open source and are on Android prefer to get their apps there.

If you're able, please do so. But even if you don't, please know you open sourcing this, it's appreciated. Thank you.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Try Obtainium 🙂

[-] land@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hopefully they add push notifications for posts, similar to Apollo for Reddit push notifications feature:

“Apollo for Reddit had a feature called “Threshold Notifications”, which allowed users to set up notifications for when a post reached a certain number of upvotes. This was useful for tracking the popularity of a post without constantly checking Reddit.

For example, you could configure Apollo to notify you if a specific post or thread reached 1,000 upvotes. This feature was particularly helpful for keeping an eye on trending content”

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Why do you want that?

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