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.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is why I never build any of my app ideas. I don’t want people to notice when I wake up one day and decide I don’t want to work on it anymore. Of course people tend to not like my UX ideas so its probably a fear I don’t need to have.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I thought this was one of the points of open source.

      “Yeah, I’m done with this. I’m not making any more changes from what it is today. If you find value in continuing it, here’s the code. Go wild!”

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yes, but if you’re lucky maybe 1 in 100,000 users will be both capable and willing to take up the reins. More often than not, when single (principal) developer projects lose its single developer the project just goes into code rot. ASF maintains tons of projects that are too valuable to lose completely but which have no one doing active development on them. It’s a problem.

        • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It’s a problem.

          Its a DIFFERENT problem.

          OP is talking about never creating because of fear of maintaining. How many good ideas have never come to anything because of this idea?

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This also highlights how important it is that we develop open source apps for the fediverse. Life is hard, busy, and surprising. An open source license works for the good of all of us by allowing development to continue in the face of hardship.