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Summit for Lemmy is now open source

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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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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?
- 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."
  
  It's a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.
  
  Even worse when the first link to talk about what you’re looking at is just a discord link
- It's an Android Lemmy client. The app just went public so it needs some repo refinement
  
  And it's great, I've been using it for weeks. It reminds me of RIF. I am so happy to have found it.
- Had the same problem
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.
- Shit this is pretty good
- Thunder is my personal recommendation with Raccoon being my next choice.
  
  If you're interested that is. Otherwise just pretend I was never here.
  
  I've been a Thunder user for a while. Just tried out Summit, and it has been much smoother and polished for me.
  
  Tried Raccoon just now, uninstalled instantly. Not very polished compared to other apps. My personal opinion.
- 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
  
  You can pay for ad-free. It's an affordable one time purchase and it supports the dev's work.
  
  You can block ads
- I'm trying it out right now, it doesn't feel very polished compared to others I main, like Sync or Boost.
  
  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.
- If you like FOSS, I'd recommend giving Thunder a try: https://thunderapp.dev/
  
  Testing Summit rn but will def keep it in mind
  
  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!
Nice. Hopefully somebody puts it up on FDroid.
- Try Obtainium 🙂
Love summit, glad to hear this welcome evolution.
This is great! I've tried so many clients and Summit is the one I like best.
Now do Sync ;-;
- 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
  
  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.
That's awesome, I love summit.

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