Liftoff! @lemmy.world UKFilmNerd @feddit.uk 1 yr. ago

It's Liftoff still being developed?

I've noticed a lot of request and bugs reported but they're seems to have been no activity on this for a month.

I know people work on these projects in their spare time etc and I'm not complaining, it just seems to have gone quiet.

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https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/commits/master

Last commit was mere 5 days ago. Hardly a sign for EOL
- I'm don't fully understand all parts of the GitHub website. That makes sense.
  
  It's okay, no one does (unless you're a programmer).
  
  To this day, I still don't understand why there's no dedicated download button. It's up to the developer to provide it, and far too many of them are too forgetful/lazy to do so cause they expect you to just know how to compile it yourself.
  
  From a users point of view, I understand your concerns. When other clients are undergoing significant development. It’s a little disconcerting to see the pace of Liftoff development slow and bugs not getting fixed.
I hope so. It's my current of choice on Android.
- Same my current favorite to use
  
  Thirdeded
They might be on vacation.

They deserve it, to be honest
- My thoughts too. Many countries in Europe and around the world enjoy summer holidays in August. Specially if the main features of the app have been developed and there's no breaking bugs, the developers may have decided to enjoy holidays which they definitely should!
  
  Have a look over on Matrix. Some have had short breaks but there are other reasons
Perhaps the developer got burned out like many others did after their intense work the first few weeks of the Lemmy migration. Memmy has also stagnated a lot. I'm currently using voyager wich is being actively developed
- Memmy hasn’t really stagnated. They’ve just been focusing on the 1.0 build rather than little patches and minor releases.
  
  Have you read their message two days ago? Definitely fatigue. 1.0 build seem to have become a total rewrite. I understand them 100%, but it has definitely stagnated.
- Hopefully sync doesn't burn out, a lot of people paid good money for that app, it would suck if he stopped developing it
- I keep coming back to Voyager as well but I wish they would fix that damn bug where you hit reply and nothing happens. Other than that issue it's probably the best Lemmy app available right now (and I've tried them all). L
I was wondering this as well, it's only gotten one commit on github this month.
- Are we all looking at the same repository? I see 3 commits in August, all of which were squash merges of PRs. 2 other PRs have been opened in this past week alone: one by a maintainer, and the other has already been reviewed by the maintainer.
  
  Have you seen the discussion over on Matrix in Liftoff Development. From what I can tell, someone new has been doing things that hasn’t merged. Other than that not much has happened.
  
  But really none of that matters because what matters to end users is seeing the bugs they encounter squashed and that’s not happening.
  
  I’ve suggested before that this might be a funding issue and offered that users could donate.
If not then maybe it's time for a new hobby... It's my mobile client of choice at the moment.
I used liftoff before sync launched. Sync is just better imo so its what i use now
- I would really use Sync if it was open source and tracker free.
  
  Ya, sync not worth it
  
  All of the trackers are because of ads. If you upgrade the trackers go away. Doesn't address open source though.
- How is Sync better? I tried both, still prefer Liftoff.
  
  Honestly it's hard to put into words, it just feels more finished.
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This is the holidays season alsoson 1 Monty seems fait to have little activity
Yes it's still being developed. You are right there was a slowdown. I recently had twins and was on parental leave then back to work. So I'm getting back into the swing of things. I have a laundry list of items I plan to tackle with the long weekend in the US.

Sorry for the slowdown!
- Don't apologize and congratulations! Now you have children work on developing them! 😁
- Congratulations! ☺️
I hope the maintainers are currently on vacation. If not, we need to discuss contingency plans for the project if the main developer becomes unavailable or chooses not to continue maintenance.

The persistent bug that keeps resetting the timeline is my biggest concern right now. I’d appreciate it being resolved quickly.

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