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!

  • @V4uban
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    51 year ago

    Hello, Nice to hear about the merging! I can login to Lemmy.ml, but not to Lemmy.world, is that a known issue?

    • Shizu
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      31 year ago

      Check if your password length exceeds 60 chars. Lemmy-ui has a char limit of 60chars whereas all flutter apps transmit your whole password even if >60chars. I’ve just been thru it with a dev https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/issues/52

      • PicklesBurgh
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        21 year ago

        This didn’t work for me. I reduced my character length to 15 and even removed all special characters but I still couldn’t login with my lemmy.world account, it just spins. If I put in an incorrect password it does tell me that its incorrect. It just doesn’t ever accept the correct one.

        • @V4uban
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          21 year ago

          “Happy” to see that I’m not the only one with the issue!