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~~

  • Condiment2085
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    192 months 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.

    • L3ft_F13ld!
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      92 months ago

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

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

      • Victor
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        42 months ago

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

        • L3ft_F13ld!
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          52 months ago

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

          • Victor
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            62 months ago

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

      • javacafe
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        2 months ago

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

    • Victor
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      22 months ago

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

      • Condiment2085
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        42 months 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.

        • Victor
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          32 months 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. 😁

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            Sounds like someone has a pihole.

            If that’s the case and the ads still work 1% of the time, maybe update the blocklist?

    • ByteMeOP
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      82 months 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

      • Victor
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        12 months 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.

        • fmstrat
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          12 months ago

          Open an issue? Devs are pretty responsive.

          • Victor
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            12 months ago

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

  • Shimitar
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    92 months ago

    Love summit, glad to hear this welcome evolution.

  • Jeena
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    502 months 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?

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      I’m not a developer but I believe it was the Voyager dev that explained Lemmy currently can’t do this. Apps only reach out to Lemmy servers while they are open. Push notifications would require the developers to run their own servers that the apps would reach out to while running in the background and no one wants to pay for that especially since most apps are free. I may be explaining this wrong.

  • z3rOR0ne
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    92 months ago

    Nice. Hopefully somebody puts it up on FDroid.

    • idunnololz
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      212 months 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

      • z3rOR0ne
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        52 months 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.

    • heleos
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      182 months 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

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        I’ve been using Boost since Sync lost the “mark as read” feature, but I took a second look at Summit since I wrote that comment… And I actually think I like it more lol.

        Do you know if it has push notifications? I moderate a handful of communities so getting notified of reports would be huge.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          Looks like it has the ability to poll your accounts periodically to check for notifications. I presume this would then send a push notification, and the most frequent interval is 15 minutes