It’s been a months since 1.0.7 and the app still has bugs that need to be fixed. I’m hesitant to pay for the next month of pro without any progress. Meanwhile Voyager gets multiple updates per week…
Looks like an update was just published today with a number of fixes. This app is by far the best Lemmy app (for its ability to play videos and gifs inline alone) so I’m more than ok waiting for a small developer to take time their time with updates. Not every dev only makes apps as a full time job. Most have full time gigs and work on apps like this in their spare time.
Voyager is open source with everyone chipping in. Not a fair comparison at all. I do like how it’s all coming together though with the mod features and more Apollo features I’ve been missing.
Just like every other paid Lemmy dev, he’s abandoned it once he got even a tiny pushback for enshittifying his app.
I mean it’s an amazing app and it does deserve compensation for the r hard work it required. But the payment came in before it was even finished. I still paid for a couple of months but I’m not doing a longer subscription until I see results first.
I think the dev would find that the community would go out of their way to reward honest hard work if he showed some integrity. Case in point: Look at the devs from Voyager. Their users adore them and willingly donate money to support them. Their app is free and open source but I don’t prefer it because it’s react native instead of an actual native app.
Sorry guys, I think it might be my fault. 😂
A month ago I replied to the dev with a wall of text on how I felt like Avelon showed great promises but paying for something based on what it sounds like it’ll be in the future is a bad idea. I still think my position regarding this is right.
However, a few days after that, I decided to just do it with the lifetime purchase and hope for the best. Turned out that around that time Memmy’s devs revamped that app and haven’t added the number one feature on my list (bottom bar swipes navigation) and others are still planned to return. Avelon also went on a hiatus (I think it’s related to the rebalancing of pro features). Most other Lemmy apps are in different stages of having some stuff I like, but lacking most features I want.
Hopefully we’ll see updates again soon. I’m not going to try getting a refund or anything, but if this flops, I’m most likely gonna give up on Lemmy.
It’s sad that people can be so sensitive.
But you really shouldn’t abandon Lemmy entirely over an app…especially when there are a few competing apps that are just as good.
Did Memmy start using swift natively? If so, I’d give them a chance but they were pretty sensitive as well when I pointed out that their choice of React Native was suboptimal since it is, after all, an iOS only app.
Yes, I think Memmy had a revamp but I’m not sure of the details. I think it’s still React, but the devs mentioned “learning some tricks and how to avoid some mistakes”.
I don’t think I’m being sensitive though. First, I really don’t think a decision to quit Lemmy would happen soon. Second, even though there are several apps for it under development, as I said, they’re all at different stages of maturity and none of them cover all the bases I expect to use in the long term. I honestly hate having to reach around the screen to navigate, which is my biggest problem with all of them now that Memmy lost its gestures navigation. Then there are smaller stuff like Avelon not re-blurring NSFW after you tap on it. Or the crashes. Or the opening Lemmy links in a browser view instead of a regular view in the app. Some of these issues are shared between all of the 7 apps I have for Lemmy on my phone.
I’m going to give it time, I understand very well how most of these apps are side projects. My main concern is that either these apps eventually get abandoned, or they go paid/partly paid like Avelon, while still not providing me with the experience I expect to get. I don’t have the inclination to relive the awful experience Reddit forced us through for years with a different name.
Oh I actually didn’t mean that you were being sensitive. I was referring to devs.
Thanks for providing some clarification. Lemmios is swift native, had a few killer features that I didn’t see elsewhere and it was entirely open source…though that one was a side project that seems to fall by the wayside during semester (the dev is a student).
I’d love for someone to make an ENTIRELY OPEN SOURCE, FREE/VOLUNTARY DONATION FUNDED, SWIFT NATIVE IOS LEMMY APP…kind of like Voyager but Swift Native. I’d be happy to fund the development of an app if that funding went back toward helping the rest of the fediverse and was 100% voluntary. IMO, why should I pay a dev working on a fediverse app if they aren’t open source? If I’m paying for a closed source app, I’m paying the dev to create a warchest of proprietary IP and to obfuscate useful code that could help the rest of the community.
Mlem is open-source and Swift based. Not my fav Lemmy app so far, but it seems to cover your criteria.
Ahh, got it. Yeah I guess it can take a toll when people go too toxic, but on the other hand there are people who get their buttons pressed too easily.
!mlem@lemmy.ml is open source, donation funded and native Swift.
!arctic@lemmy.world is also native Swift.
