Artemis was a promising mobile app for Kbin, with a dedicated community, a rapid pace of development, and a high level of polish. Then, the developer disappeared.
This is why I never build any of my app ideas. I don’t want people to notice when I wake up one day and decide I don’t want to work on it anymore. Of course people tend to not like my UX ideas so its probably a fear I don’t need to have.
If your project open source then you can do it, and give it to maintainers or someone else, or let anyone work it. Life can get busy for everyone
In an ironic twist of fate, Artemis was stopped in its tracks because the source code hasn’t been released
Oh no, nobody could have seen this coming… 🙄 And people kept downvoting me when I scoff at a release of closed source Lemmy/Mastodon/… clients.
Oh damn. I have the beta on my phone but haven’t really used it since I’m not on kbin. I was waiting for it to be compatible with lemmy. Too bad because it has a very nice looking and smooth interface and it seemed very promising. Adios to the app on my phone I guess.
Yes, the whole thing is especially frustrating because the app was quite nice. Harriette did a really good job really quickly.
That’s too bad, that is the main thing I feel kbin could use is a good app. The web app seems a bit hit or miss.
That’s a bit concerning. Leave alone the bad practices of multiple single points of failure (single server, single developer, singler person with access to code), the abrupt silence from the developer Harriette looks very concerning. Hopefully we hear back from her soon enough.
Oh man, this is a real bummer. I was really hopeful for Artemis. Hopefully Harriette’s doing okay, though.
On the flip side, Ernest said he’d resume working on the official mobile client soon.
This also highlights how important it is that we develop open source apps for the fediverse. Life is hard, busy, and surprising. An open source license works for the good of all of us by allowing development to continue in the face of hardship.
That’s one more reason why open source is a way to go. You can never know if you’ll get in a though life situation for example.
