I haven’t really seen anything since the exodus but I think he’s just not the kind of guy who cares too much about niche decentralized internet communities.
He’s very much in the Applesphere of polished premium apps that do specific things. Which is fine. He’s frankly the only dev I knew of who did that without being a total ghoul and even then I was seeing a lot of complaints about people being begged for subscriptions, which I never found excessive (he claimed those people were experiencing a bug).
I don’t really know what to make of his opinion, I don’t know if he saw the UI as a threat or a liability to him or anything like that.
I would love Voyager (mine is still called Wefwef) as a native iOS app because I run into some quirks of the web app backend (especially when editing text), but what we have now is excellent and has made the transition much more bearable. I do still feel like something is missing and I miss how much more connected with the world I felt as a longtime Reddit user, but it’s okay, people’s primary platforms used to change all the time (and as yet another wave of Twitter users are finding out, it can be a hard first few months).
What do you notice specifically with text? I have found the app from the app store looks and feels almost identical to Apollo and behaves like a native app, particularly compared to stuff made with Flutter for example.
In my mind, Voyager was always on the forefront with features compared to other Lemmy clients. I’m surprised it took this long to implement this!
Still, nothing but grateful for the Voyager devs.
I know Christian (the OG Apollo Dev) was not happy about Voyager, but their work has been stellar imo. Loving the work, and keep it up.
Other than sounding a bit annoyed that the UI was identical, did Christian express further unhappiness? Love(d) both apps
I haven’t really seen anything since the exodus but I think he’s just not the kind of guy who cares too much about niche decentralized internet communities.
He’s very much in the Applesphere of polished premium apps that do specific things. Which is fine. He’s frankly the only dev I knew of who did that without being a total ghoul and even then I was seeing a lot of complaints about people being begged for subscriptions, which I never found excessive (he claimed those people were experiencing a bug).
I don’t really know what to make of his opinion, I don’t know if he saw the UI as a threat or a liability to him or anything like that.
I would love Voyager (mine is still called Wefwef) as a native iOS app because I run into some quirks of the web app backend (especially when editing text), but what we have now is excellent and has made the transition much more bearable. I do still feel like something is missing and I miss how much more connected with the world I felt as a longtime Reddit user, but it’s okay, people’s primary platforms used to change all the time (and as yet another wave of Twitter users are finding out, it can be a hard first few months).
Yeah I share the same general impression of him.
What do you notice specifically with text? I have found the app from the app store looks and feels almost identical to Apollo and behaves like a native app, particularly compared to stuff made with Flutter for example.