[WIP][v1.32.0] Create/edit communities

Writing this down so I don’t forget but to also give the community some insight as well.

My immediate plans for Summit is to support creating and editing communities from within the app. After that I will look at the user requests and try to finish those off again. Once all of that is done I’m going to be doing some fine tuning of the app.

As a daily user of the app, I think the app currently offers a decent base experience for browsing Lemmy but it’s not polished; the user experience is a little bare. A lot of features can use some small adjustments to make them nicer to use.

I’ve been gathering ideas on how certain features can be made better over the past few weeks but this is also a great time to ask the community to bring up any slight annoyances they’ve had with the app.

Anyways that’s all from me for now.

Changes so far:

  • Update back behavior. Tapping back while on a community that is not the home community will take you back to the home community instead of exiting the app.
  • Added an option to the Import & Export settings page to backup and reset your current settings.
  • Added support for editing communities.
  • Added support for creating communities.
  • Added option to delete a community.

Update

Some of the minor changes noted here have been released as v1.31.1 so they have been moved to the v1.31.1 release post instead.

the_rogue,
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Any plan to make it FOSS lol ?

idunnololz,
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github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy/wiki/FAQs

the_rogue, (edited )
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Uhh … okay but why do you like not want anyone to fork it ? Its not like your gaining anything from it now atleast i think ? Like i get tge ownership aspect but wouldn’t there always be proof that you are the orginal owner who made it ?

idunnololz, (edited )
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I don’t know why but I think I will lose all interest in the project if the project was taken over and run by someone else. It would feel pointless for me to keep the project going at that point.

Edit: I understand just forking a project is fine. Just the act of open sourcing the app + not allowing contributors could mean someone will fork and maintain a “community edition” that does accept PRs which will lead to this issue.

the_rogue,
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That’s too much thought put into it mate like apps like lift off’s get abandoned and no one even wants to fork it so i’m gonna guess they are not gonna run a fork just due to mild disagreements like no one is running any forks for big foss ones.

idunnololz,
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Actually are there big foss projects that don’t allow contributors at all? If so I would be interested in taking a look.

Nithanim,

The only one I can think of right now is draw.io

idunnololz,
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I agree but at the same time, I have an app I’ve been maintaining for 7+ years now on the side. I hope to maintain Summit for just as long if not longer so I kind of have to think longer term. Also having the app be closed source just removes all of those possibilities. It’s just an easy way to solve all my problems.

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