I’m excited to announce that v1.81.0 of the app is finally ready to be released. This update refreshes the look of the default user experience hopefully for the better.

You can see a screenshot of this new default user experience here:

To make the new user experience possible, three new features have been added to Summit:

1. A new post feed header style named “Compact”. This is meant to give the user slightly more information about the community they are browsing without taking up too much of the screen. This will be on by default going forwards. (You can turn off post headers in Settings > Post Feed. You can also revert the style to the previous design.)
2. A new post header style named “Compact”. This makes the header on each post prefer a single line instead of two lines, making posts more compact and reducing some redundant information. The post header style can be adjusted on a per-post style basis. In this release only the new List and Compact style will use the “Compact” header style by default.
3. A new post style named “List” (the old “List” style is now named “List (old)”). This style is designed to be much more compact than the previous List style, trying to be a good compromise between the old List style and Compact. This post style is now the default.

As usual, all of these changes can be reverted via settings.

Full changelog

• Add new post feed header style “Compact”. This is now the default header style.
• Add new post header style “Compact”. This is on by default for the List and Compact post styles.
• Add new post style “List”. This is now the default post style.
• Change post feed header to on by default.
• Fix a bug where post/comment scores can get stale and not update.
• Fix a bug where jump to comment button doesn’t work.
• Fix a bug where sliders in settings can be finicky.
• Fix a bug where rotating the screen continuously on the post feed will cause the post feed to become blank.
• Fix a bug when loading child comments where only 10 comments can be loaded.
• Add setting to disable generating thumbnails from video urls.
• Fix a bug where spoiler tag aren’t parsed if there isn’t a space between “:::” and “spoiler”.
• Fix a bug where the bottom bar is obstructed in post screen if a post is opened via link.
• Fix a bug where errors in the post feed can block all other UI elements, forcing the user to back out of the app.
• Fix a bug where hide bot accounts setting is not visible.

Update v1.81.1

• Fix a bug where some videos cannot be played from the post feed.
• Fix a bug where the downvotes symbol is shown for comments.
• Fix a few rare crashes.

Update v1.81.2

• Fix comment scores not visible in some cases.

Update v1.81.3

• Fix a bug where videos are shown twice in the post screen.
• Fix a bug where sometimes comments load forever.