Looks like full radio silence, and even the IAP links in the app have started to die. Looks like evgiz has moved on to other projects as well based on their twitter. I’ll be over on Voyager.
Greeting from Voyager!
It seems Lemmy 19.4 broke marking posts as read, so unfortunately that’s the end of using Avelon for me. Sucks because I still like the UI better than any of the alternatives.
Too bad eh! We gotta be careful from being too emotional invested into new Lemmy third party apps as they may be abandoned as the userbase of the platform is small at 44.6k mau and it’s hard for the developers to be rewarded for the hard work of coding.
Bummer. Evgis took the money and ran like a biznich.
Same thing happened with Bean. I spent $78.39 cad on the app hoping it would spur development but alas it was abandoned though it sounded like the developer ran into some difficult situations.
Not trying to start a witch hunt, I just hope they’re ok.
I mean so are we all I think and looking at his X account he seems to have moved on. I would hope that he would have just replied here and said ‘thanks for all the fish’.
I always like ending on a positive note so I’ll say that I at least liked his vision when he was engaged. It was solid.
Same, I left just recently for Arctic after no updates for months, unfixed app restarts, commenting issues, etc.
Paid for pro when it became available because at the time Avelon was a great Lemmy app and I enjoy supporting developers but seemed to get abandoned not too long after unfortunately.
Guess maybe burn out got to them or they just moved on. Luckily though Arctic is just as good, even better I’d say and the developer is still active as of just a few days ago. They’re preparing for a new big update release soon as well. The beta for it is already on TestFlight too.
