Good news, it seems that the app is still alive and its developer has not abandoned it, as commented by its developer in the official Eternity repository.

  • Refurbished Refurbisher
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    316 months ago

    Good to hear. Luckilly, the app still works.

    Would be nice if there was more than one maintainer, though.

    • @rorschah@lemdro.id
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      155 months ago

      True. I’m glad that the multiple lemmy releases during past months didn’t make the app unusable.

    • trevor
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      95 months ago

      It doesn’t seem like the repository has that many contributors to begin with, so I would think the answer to improving the bus factor begins with getting more contributors.

      Something that might help bring in more people is making it easier for a new contributor to build it locally. I don’t enjoy dealing with Java/Kotlin projects because the tooling is pretty messy when compared to the tooling for Rust projects. Perhaps a dev container and/or a Nix configuration might help with making that easier? I know it would for someone like me.