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 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.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
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 11 months ago
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 11 months ago
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. Its a problem.
____@infosec.pub 11 months ago
I can think of only one concrete example where the lead dev walked away - rightfully IIRC - and the community was able to pick it up, fork it, and actually maintain and continue to develop new features.
Sadly, that’s not often the case.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 months ago
Same 😂 My UIs can cause blind rage
Fitik@fedia.io 11 months ago
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