Eternity

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Eternity is a free and open-source Lemmy client, forked from Infinity for Reddit!

🔗Universal Link: !eternityapp@lemdro.id

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Eternity may be falling behind, but I think it worthwhile to show our thanks ❤️ (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/eternityapp@lemdro.id

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I have noticed some posts here lamenting Eternity falling behind in development, the last substantial release 5 months old.

However, the last post by the developer was last month, so I do not believe it has been abandoned, I think they just got busy with other things, and will hopefully return someday when they have the time.

But I think it appropriate to emphasize that Eternity is open-source software, given to us for free and out of good will of the developer, Bazsalanszky. I think now would be a good time to show him our appreciation for the work he did in gifting us with one of the finest apps on the lemmyverse, and to return his goodwill.

If you have the means, the developer has a librapay account where you can donate a small sum of your choosing. As a point of comparison, Boost for Lemmy (a closed source app with trackers) charges $3.99 to remove ads (Eternity has never had ads).

If you don't have the means to donate, I'm sure Bazsalanszky would appreciate a kind message instead. :)

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[–] cloudless@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Eternity is still my favourite Lemmy app on Android. Every other app I tried felt incomplete and I always go back to Eternity.

[–] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 10 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Can I ask you what are the features you find missing in other apps? What I can think of as Eternity's distinctive features are:

unique customization and theming
navigating through posts with swipe gestures

and that's it, all the rest seems to be in every app.

An addendum, since it is an open source project and it has a solid user base, how come nobody is helping out with contributions? I am an Android developer and I have some reasons in mind but I would like to have someone else's opinion before speaking.

[–] cloudless@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I only use open source apps so my choices are more limited. What I like about Eternity:

It is stable, never experienced a crash
Separate upvote and downvote counts
It displays user names and instances on all posts
Bottom drawer allows one tap access to inbox and profile
The layout for posts is clean and have good separation between posts
One-tap collapse / expand comments. Some other apps require tap and hold or swipe gestures.
NSFW settings
Notifications that actually work
General UI design (font, spacing, icons, colours, button locations etc)

There are other apps with some of the features above, but none with all of the above.

[–] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! "Notifications that actually work" killed me lol... I'll take notes!

[–] Melonpoly@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

To add to that, the transparent navigation bar and immersive mode.

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