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.

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[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

On the flip side, Ernest said he'd resume working on the official mobile client soon.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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!"

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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?

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] blivet@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, the whole thing is especially frustrating because the app was quite nice. Harriette did a really good job really quickly.

[–] dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Oh man, this is a real bummer. I was really hopeful for Artemis. Hopefully Harriette's doing okay, though.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] ppb1701@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Fitik@fedia.io -1 points 11 months ago

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.