After a long silence from the developer, project moderators stepped down. The mobile app for Kbin appears to have closed its doors.

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.

  • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    202·
    11 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.worldMEnglish
      286·
      11 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.lolEnglish
        133·
        11 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:

        CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING PULL REQUESTS

        pls and thank you

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        11 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.

        • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          5·
          11 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.

      • Nato Boram@lemm.eeEnglish
        33·
        11 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.