It’s been a months since 1.0.7 and the app still has bugs that need to be fixed. I’m hesitant to pay for the next month of pro without any progress. Meanwhile Voyager gets multiple updates per week…
Looks like an update was just published today with a number of fixes. This app is by far the best Lemmy app (for its ability to play videos and gifs inline alone) so I’m more than ok waiting for a small developer to take time their time with updates. Not every dev only makes apps as a full time job. Most have full time gigs and work on apps like this in their spare time.
Voyager is open source with everyone chipping in. Not a fair comparison at all. I do like how it’s all coming together though with the mod features and more Apollo features I’ve been missing.
Just like every other paid Lemmy dev, he’s abandoned it once he got even a tiny pushback for enshittifying his app.
I mean it’s an amazing app and it does deserve compensation for the r hard work it required. But the payment came in before it was even finished. I still paid for a couple of months but I’m not doing a longer subscription until I see results first.
I think the dev would find that the community would go out of their way to reward honest hard work if he showed some integrity. Case in point: Look at the devs from Voyager. Their users adore them and willingly donate money to support them. Their app is free and open source but I don’t prefer it because it’s react native instead of an actual native app.
Sorry guys, I think it might be my fault. 😂
A month ago I replied to the dev with a wall of text on how I felt like Avelon showed great promises but paying for something based on what it sounds like it’ll be in the future is a bad idea. I still think my position regarding this is right.
However, a few days after that, I decided to just do it with the lifetime purchase and hope for the best. Turned out that around that time Memmy’s devs revamped that app and haven’t added the number one feature on my list (bottom bar swipes navigation) and others are still planned to return. Avelon also went on a hiatus (I think it’s related to the rebalancing of pro features). Most other Lemmy apps are in different stages of having some stuff I like, but lacking most features I want.
Hopefully we’ll see updates again soon. I’m not going to try getting a refund or anything, but if this flops, I’m most likely gonna give up on Lemmy.
