Edit 1: After I made this post I looked for the app everywhere, turns out the developer removed it from Fdroid and Google Play Store and even deleted the community.

I guess the client is done.

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 3 months ago (3 children)

While I respect the decision the dude made, anyone should always be able to back out of an open source project, I also absolutely do not understand the reasoning.

The markdown challenge was in no way a ranking of how good or bad Lemmy apps are. It just said, "hey look, this type of formatting isn't shown correctly in some apps".

How did the dev even deal with other bug reports? If other stuff didn't work correctly, how was that then not a "bad reputation" for him? I am totally confused by this.

[–] grid22@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

from de goodbye post by the dev of Raccoon for Lemmy:

Different apps are built with different technologies: Jerboa uses Markwon for Markdown rendering, Raccoon uses multiplatform-markdown-renderer, Thunder uses flutter_markdown, etc.

You are not comparing the apps, you are comparing the rendering libraries we (apps' developers) did not even write ourselves.

App was being judged for the 3rd party library that was implemented

Your question:

How did the dev even deal with other bug reports?

Very well, it was faster than The Concorde, everyone that ever contacted him can confirm that right away

[–] voracread@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The last part is the most sad part, I felt he really loved working on it. It must have felt like cutting off an arm for him to let it go.

[–] kijetesantakalu@feddit.it 1 points 3 months ago

I can confirm that it felt more or less like that 😓

[–] AmbiguousProps 12 points 3 months ago

do they think only bad devs create bugs? it's part of programming.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The reputation argument is so weird to me, it's free work for no compensation, to experiment and learn new things. That's personal development and going beyond doing the minimum (of not making an app at all), that's usually good reputation points.

Unless the code is in really bad shape, it's just unfinished which is very understandable given it's free software made in free time. One could make the argument they were likely properly prioritizing their day job as well.

I have my share of unfinished of abandoned projects and it never even once came up in an interview. And when I'm the interviewer, I'm more interested in why they started it, and what they learned from it, what they would have done differently, why did they want to use X and Y libraries for it and so on. I have much worse apps in the Play Store right now from places I worked at 10 years ago.

They deleted everything so I can't go check but there might be some cultural factors at play there to explain this.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 5 points 3 months ago

As an aside, the app I use (Boost) also scored fairly bad on that test. I still paid for it and still use it. Sure it doesn't display everything perfectly but Markdown is literally designed to be readable before rendering, you still get the message.

It's such a weird thing to flip out on and delete everything for. A simple "hey I don't have any free time for this anymore" message and archiving the repository would have been just fine, but at least enabled people to fork it and continue it. Clearly this thread's existence shows people were using it as-is.

It's not like the Lemmy ecosystem is top notch, for a couple months Lemmy itself couldn't even render quotes and apostrophes properly and all posts looked like a mess of ' and " and </>>