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.
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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I thought this was one of the points of open source.
"Yeah, I'm done with this. I'm not making any more changes from what it is today. If you find value in continuing it, here's the code. Go wild!"
Yes, but if you're lucky maybe 1 in 100,000 users will be both capable and willing to take up the reins. More often than not, when single (principal) developer projects lose its single developer the project just goes into code rot. ASF maintains tons of projects that are too valuable to lose completely but which have no one doing active development on them. It's a problem.
It’s a problem.
Its a DIFFERENT problem.
OP is talking about never creating because of fear of maintaining. How many good ideas have never come to anything because of this idea?
On the flip side, Ernest said he'd resume working on the official mobile client soon.
This is unfortunate. Artemis is beautiful and a good app. I hope that the dev is okay. Hopefully, she can return or make the code openly available.
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.
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.
Oh man, this is a real bummer. I was really hopeful for Artemis. Hopefully Harriette's doing okay, though.
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.
Yeah it's a real shame because from what I saw of the Artemis app it looked good as well. I hope the dev is ok.
Kbin definitely needs a decent app. The web app does the job but it can be a bit irritating as you say
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.