• Norgur
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    2811 months ago

    Can we pretend that… Say… An imaginary friend of mine has never heard of this and wants to know what it is. Purely hypothetical of course.

    • Limitless_screaming
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      1611 months ago

      There is a collection of open source apps that aim to just do their job with no fancy additions, they were called “Simple mobile tools”. They are no longer maintained, this is a fork of them.

      • calm.like.a.bomb
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        611 months ago

        They are (hopefully) maintained by the company that bought them. And yes, this is the fork.

        • Björn Tantau
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          1011 months ago

          Considering what the company does with other apps it buys we actually hope that they don’t maintain their apps.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          Oh, they’ll be “maintained” alright. Just at what cost to the user is what needs to be determined.

  • lapislazuli
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    11 months ago

    Not affiliated with them in any way but want to say this: support them, if you can. The amount of support, or lack thereof, could make or break this fork.

    • @Quetzalcutlass
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      11 months ago

      Simple Mobile Tools (the creator of Simple Gallery, a very popular gallery app) sold out to a scummy ad company. This is a fork of the Simple Gallery app that won’t include all the telemetry and ads the new owners will inject it with.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 months ago

    Nice! The settings export/import from the SMT version to the new Fossify version works perfectly, plus we get a nice green icon, to easily tell them apart. So happy they’re forking these apps.

    • merde alors
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      111 months ago

      settings export/import reduces the transition to 8 clicks (touches?)

      🙂