- cross-posted to:
- lemmyapps
- cross-posted to:
- lemmyapps
Limbo and Limmynade have joined forces, and will continue development together as Liftoff!
The past couple of weeks have been tremendously exciting times for all of us as events elsewhere have led to a massive growth in interest in and usage of Lemmy.
Our two separate projects both started with the intention of bringing an existing open-source code base Lemmur up to date, with the aim of helping new users to have a great first experience of Lemmy, while giving existing users access to many rich features. As soon as we became aware of each other we realised that we would work much more effectively by combining our efforts. Read more about what makes Liftoff! special.
We are:
Zach—Extensive experience in Enterprise full stack architecture and infrastructure.
Michael—Many years experience of developing and managing commercial and open source software projects.
Liftoff! is written in Dart for API support and Flutter for front-end development, meaning that it can run wherever Flutter runs. Our primary targets right now are Android and iOS, but the sky’s the limit!
Our current development priorities are to:
- Ensure that the app runs robustly on iOS and Android platforms.
- Identify and address any major bugs affecting key functionality
- Work to improve the user experience on both platforms.
- Release 1.0 version
Beta builds now available on TestFlight and will soon be available on F-Play and Google Store. (Note that the TestFlight page still refers to it as Limbo, but it does indeed install as Liftoff!)
Liftoff code is made available under GPL2.0 and can be found at https://github.com/liftoff-app
We have already had tremendous support from enthusiastic Lemmy users as separate projects and we look forward to continuing to work with you all. Code contributions, bug fixes, issue reports and suggestions are all welcome, so please join us on our journey into the unknown!
Ah didn’t mean to delete my comment. As for us that aren’t great at puters, when will we be able to download it from App Store without any particular dev or beta things? 😄
You really should give TestFlight a go, it’s pretty painless. If you follow the link it offers to install Apple’s TestFilght app, which then takes care of downloading the actual app for you and automatically updating it as needed.
Either way we’re really enthusiastic to get the app into people’s hands, so we’ll be making a full release as soon as we’re comfortable that any major bugs have been found and squashed!
Wow, that was much easier than expected. Installed it right now. Thank you and sorry for being dense :)
Since I had issues giving feedback but it would be neat if you were able to do it similar to Apollo for the swiping on posts. Might have not described it good but in general.
As a user While I do a mild swipe left on a comment So I can reply
Hard swipe left So I can save post
Mild swipe right So I can give a upvote
Hard swipe right So I can give a downvote