It’s exactly what you said: improving an existing app. For certain reasons, the original Bromite branding can’t be used and since the original project’s developer is basically left the project, this was the only way: forking and rebranding. The owner of this fork project was one of the main, most active contributors to Bromite anyway, so it should be fine.
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privacyfalcon9899@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Still don’t understaand why devs prefer fork in instead of improving existing apps and duplicate efforts.
varaki@lemmy.world 11 months ago
lemann@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Something similar happened with youtube-dlc, allowing yt-dlp to be born
Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 11 months ago
At a quick glance, cromite apparently intends to be much stricter on security and privacy, over usability.
bug@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Bromite hasn’t been touched for 6 months, so this is the opposite of duplicating effort, it’s an effort to save the project!
privacyfalcon9899@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I was not aware of that. Thanks for the information.