Hey everyone! I wanted to give an update on the status of Memmy development since things have been slow recently.
Don’t worry, we haven’t just abandoned Memmy! There are a few reasons we haven’t really had many updates or progress recently. gk and I have both been a little burnt out after doing so much before. We didn’t really pace ourselves very well I think, so recently we’ve been taking a break. I’ve been addicted to Baldurs Gate 3 and gk is trying to get out of Gold Nova in CSGO 😏. Additionally, there was a lot of drama recently on lemmy that kind of left a sour taste in our mouths and has just led us to not using lemmy as much recently.
But don’t worry, we are still developing. We are actually working on a rewrite of the app, since we both were rather new to React Native when starting this, and have learned a lot of do’s and don’ts. We’re also planning on having Android support in the rewrite.
We appreciate the patience and support, thank you to all our users!
Funny, I was just browsing the App Store for alternatives. Hated them all. Memmy is still the best imo.
Separately, been holding off on Balder’s because it seems so intimidating but I’m so darn close to giving into the hype.
Have you tried Bean? It’s pretty great, especially the group communities feature!
But Bean is way too expensive. I wish the dev would lower the lifetime cost….lemmy is just too new to demand that kind of price, not to mention the app is a baby and spending that amount of money on an unproven app that could be abandoned tomorrow is a huge risk.
Interesting. I saw it but it didn’t interest me. I tried Voyager and Thunder, which I didn’t like. It feels like every app out there tries to recreate Apollo in some way.
Bean looks good. Agreed about the cost. Even Apollo was $10/year and I think $30/lifetime but you had the breadth of Reddit at your fingertips. Lemmy is light on content for now.
As others have said, you should check out Avelon. It’s my favorite Lemmy app after ours
Burnout hits hard. Glad you’re appreciating life. Great app, from which I’m commenting. Thanks for this.
Thank you for the update! That’s all totally understandable, and your app in its current form is still the best one out there. My productivity has similarly suffered thanks to Baldur’s Gate…
Lazy devs would rather play video games than give me free shit?!
Where’s our roadmap?!! 😎
Now I wanna know what drama?
Mostly the stuff with lemmy.world banning the piracy community. (FWIW I think they have every right to ban whatever community they want on their server)
It’s funny, I was relatively active on Lemmy until this happened. It left a sour taste in my mouth, caused me to create a new account or two on other servers, and left my interests feeling fragmented.
So now I check Lemmy every couple days and don’t think to post much. One decision or event can really cause a snowball effect!
