Hi,
I tried to look up the dev on his page and social media accounts. He didn’t post anything since months, and I believe this promising App along all of his profiles became abandoned.
I don’t want to speculate about the reasons, as there could be plentiful legit ones. I hope everyone involved is up and happy. I’ll start to look for a substitute for Arctic.
12 Comments
moseschrute@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 326d
I don’t mean to self promote as it’s very possible something happened to the dev. Hope they are ok.
But I have my own lemmy/piefed client, Blorp, and I’d be happy to have you! I’m actively working on it and feature requests are welcome.
Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social · 7 pts · 326d
Posting from Blorp, and I like it. The dev updates it on a regular basis and is very receptive to bug reports and suggestions. It’s great and free!
skbo@lu.skbo.net · 3 pts · 326d
Hi, I’d really like to test it, but your application is not available on the french Apple Store.
moseschrute@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 326d
I can add it to France! It might take 24 hours to show up
skbo@lu.skbo.net · 3 pts · 326d
I would teally like that, thanks!
Edit: and it’s already available, such speed!!!
SrMono@feddit.org · -4 pts · 326d
But you are actually self promoting 🤣
I’ve seen the App in the store and decided against it… based on the icon. 🫣
And now based on the features.
moseschrute@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 326d
I know, it’s tough. I try my best to strike a balance between self promo and supporting apps. I’ve managed to open some communication behind the scenes between most of the lemmy client devs. And I fully support people using apps that best fit their needs (e.g. voyager provides more customization than Blorp, and it’s an all around solid app).
I think I’m a good dev but a terrible marketing person. I should not be in charge of promoting my app lol. But unfortunately if I don’t do it, nobody will. So apologies if I don’t always have the best judgement for when to promote.
SrMono@feddit.org · 2 pts · 326d
My comment was written to plain.
See, I would argue this way: If you make an App with a certain ease of use and all the features YOU like, you got a good start.
Quality and dedication will get noticed. Your App and some more customization or polishing- so just a small leap - might just skyrocket.
I will definitely check out your app and progress over time.
moseschrute@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 326d
Good point! I do spend significantly more time solving bugs and polishing things compared to my badly written promo comments lol. I’m learning as I go
moijjo@europe.pub · 1 pts · 52d
There are few bugs but is quite nice app. What did you end up using?
SrMono@feddit.org · 1 pts · 52d
Voyager
moijjo@europe.pub · 2 pts · 52d
Was bit pita to find where I can enter my server details but it works. Thanks a lot!