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Bean is a Lemmy client for iOS.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I’m holding out hope. I really enjoy using Bean, and do think Steve cares. Life does a really good job of getting complicated at bad times. From a personal perspective, I’ve had zero time to work on side projects or enjoy hobbies in what feels like forever. So, I’m giving Steve the benefit of the doubt.

And, in a very worst case scenario, it’s just an app and $30. If Bean ends up dying, I’ll move on to Thunder, or Lemma, or Mlem, or Memmy, or Avelon, and know that all will be good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Is this some sort of premature bullying, after dev already opened up on current affairs and the near future?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

I am skeptical and don’t expect much. At this point I have all but written off my lifetime membership. In retrospect, it was rather suspicious how quickly went from TestFlight to full release. Communication was almost insulting. Shit happens, but informing as setbacks happen (however brief) garners so much more goodwill than going silent and then posting an apology, especially if you let someone else do it and even more so right after starting to charge for features that were previously free on an app that while looking polished had serious issues with stability and memory leaks

Regardless of the circumstances and events, this way of doing things completely destroys credibility and trust in the future of the product and the developer.

I really want it to succeed and hope the developer really puts in sufficient remedial action to somewhat mend the damage done, but at this point I am not holding much hope for little more than the bare minimum, if anything