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.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    667·
    1 year ago

    In an ironic twist of fate, Artemis was stopped in its tracks because the source code hasn’t been released

    Oh no, nobody could have seen this coming… 🙄 And people kept downvoting me when I scoff at a release of closed source Lemmy/Mastodon/… clients.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      202·
      1 year 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
        296·
        1 year 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·
          1 year 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·
          1 year 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
            4·
            1 year 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
          23·
          1 year 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.