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. :)

  • cloudless@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • DieguiTux8623English
      5·
      9 months ago

      Thank you! “Notifications that actually work” killed me lol… I’ll take notes!