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)

I can’t get on with voyager. What the dev has done with a React PWA app is amazing but not having haptics makes it feel too weird. And the new app version is just a web view and performance is awful for me, not sure if it’s better on newer phones. But i could learn a lot from what he’s done with React I’m sure.

There’s a ticket i have for this

Most of it is from 2 things:

1. Switched component libraries - from Native Base to Gluestack. This is not an easy change.
2. Switched state libraries - from Redux to Zustand. This is not an easy change.

No we have not made our app broken on purpose.. If you want to help, feel free to contribute on Github. If there are massive issues you are running into at least tell us what they are. Give us constructive feedback. Not "This is unusable". Also gk and I have both been taking some time off so that's why a lot of these issues haven't been fixed immediately. We are mildly burnt out.

Appreciate it! It's definitely been an adjustment dealing with public criticism vs just my tech lead asking why all my commits say "wtf" on my last PR lol

😔

Happy to get criticism, but this sentence was not constructive in any way:

As an iOS dev, swift engineer, and major critic of javascript and other non-native, hacky, pragmatic solutions, using React Native on an app intended for one platform is probably more than a little bit to blame here.

Sorry we don't know Swift, but I assume the same thing could happen in Swift if you started rewriting the entire state management in a Swift app. We chose to write it in React Native because we both know JS/React, but we wanted to focus on iOS because that's what we use. Saying it's partially our fault for not using Swift is not constructive.

Please be more respectful as a fellow dev. We are doing this in our spare time and we don’t know Swift. We are doing this for fun, if you don’t like our hacky JavaScript app you can go use a different app. It doesn’t affect us since we are not making money off of this lol. I’m literally doing this in my spare time for free. This also has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with JavaScript and react native, it’s our state management.

I have an issue for this and will be implementing it soon. You can track it here

I'm seeing some conflicting comments in this thread. Feels like some people are confusing us with the server admins, and also how Lemmy works in general.

Some points:

• Lemmy is defederated, so Lemmy can't just start charging API fees. Lemmy does not control the API in that way. The devs have no power over that except for their own instance (here at lemmy.ml). I imagine if any server admin started trying to charge for API usage, people would just stop interacting with that server.
• We would never ever put ads in Memmy to make money. We both absolutely hate ads and would never do that. And if we did, someone could just fork Memmy, remove ads, and make that available to users. But I promise as long as I'm involved with Memmy, there would never be ads. I am positive gk feels the same way.
• Other than gk's small server that he's running for push notifications, we don't really have any expenses specifically for the app.
• gk has an open collective and buy me a coffee for donations. He's also looking into setting up a recurring donation option in app - but at the moment this would not give you anything in return, it just would be a way to donate a couple bucks a month.
• gk is working on this much more than I am, as he's between jobs at the moment and I have a full time job. So that being said, I'm not really interested in monetizing Memmy (unless I could make as much money from Memmy as I do at my job which I doubt would ever happen). But since gk is basically working on this like a full time job, I can't speak for him and his goals. He's also the actual owner of the app, I'm his sidekick 😎.
• At very best, if we ever paywalled anything (not sure if that's even allowed with our open source license), it would just be like extra icons or something. We would never put any actual features behind a paywall.

Sorry for the rambling, I am very bad at organizing my thoughts. Let me know if you guys have any questions.

We will continue to experiment with it 👍

Let’s not make up things on a new account to damage Gavin’s reputation. He’s an awesome dude, and i don’t recall anything ever saying Gavin Casdorph. We had to make the app under an LLC so that i could get apple developer permissions like publishing to test flight, etc.

You made your account an hour ago, not sure what your agenda is but this is pretty sad conspiracy stuff.