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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It’s been a months since 1.0.7 and the app still has bugs that need to be fixed. I’m hesitant to pay for the next month of pro without any progress. Meanwhile Voyager gets multiple updates per week…

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry guys, I think it might be my fault. 😂

A month ago I replied to the dev with a wall of text on how I felt like Avelon showed great promises but paying for something based on what it sounds like it'll be in the future is a bad idea. I still think my position regarding this is right.

However, a few days after that, I decided to just do it with the lifetime purchase and hope for the best. Turned out that around that time Memmy's devs revamped that app and haven't added the number one feature on my list (bottom bar swipes navigation) and others are still planned to return. Avelon also went on a hiatus (I think it's related to the rebalancing of pro features). Most other Lemmy apps are in different stages of having some stuff I like, but lacking most features I want.

Hopefully we'll see updates again soon. I'm not going to try getting a refund or anything, but if this flops, I'm most likely gonna give up on Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I think Memmy had a revamp but I'm not sure of the details. I think it's still React, but the devs mentioned "learning some tricks and how to avoid some mistakes".

I don't think I'm being sensitive though. First, I really don't think a decision to quit Lemmy would happen soon. Second, even though there are several apps for it under development, as I said, they're all at different stages of maturity and none of them cover all the bases I expect to use in the long term. I honestly hate having to reach around the screen to navigate, which is my biggest problem with all of them now that Memmy lost its gestures navigation. Then there are smaller stuff like Avelon not re-blurring NSFW after you tap on it. Or the crashes. Or the opening Lemmy links in a browser view instead of a regular view in the app. Some of these issues are shared between all of the 7 apps I have for Lemmy on my phone.

I'm going to give it time, I understand very well how most of these apps are side projects. My main concern is that either these apps eventually get abandoned, or they go paid/partly paid like Avelon, while still not providing me with the experience I expect to get. I don't have the inclination to relive the awful experience Reddit forced us through for years with a different name.