Comment on After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down
woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 9 months ago
For all intents and purposes, the dev did state their intentions on releasing the code “when it’s ready”, and was super active in working on it. Not releasing, and relying on one server running a specific upstream branch were definitely mistakes, 100%. But, I think the dev legitimately believed they would hit that target, which was a prerequisite for releasing.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I never understood the “when it’s ready” excuse. It’s only not ready when it contains stolen code, otherwise as unstable as the application may be, the code is ready for release.
QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 9 months ago
So much this! If people are worried about contributions arriving before things are cleaned, then just put a huge ass headline on the README saying:
can@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Kbin didn’t haven’t an API so they were using screen scrapers. I assumed they were waiting for a proper API rollout. But who knows now.
deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, they apparently used scrapers for a while, but it’s obviously not a very performant way to do things. Artemis Camp was launched with an upstream branch that introduced API work, and the app was adjusted to use that as a playground.
NatoBoram@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Right? Like, my app is definitely not ready yet its source code is available for all to see. And since I’m currently inactive, you could even fork it and get a bigger following than me if you wanted to.
These people just think too highly of themselves.