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.worldM
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    1 年前

    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.

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      1 年前

      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.works
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      1 年前

      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.worldOP
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        1 年前

        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.ee
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      1 年前

      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.