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Nothing was said before the API was going dark, and nothing has been said since then. The lack of communication is driving me towards sync for lemmy instead.
I get that it's a side project, but updates to your community take very little effort.
As far as I know boost is made by a solo dev and depending on the person updates can be a lot of effort especially updating a crowd of impatient people.
I mean, when reddit stopped working on boost it now shows a message saying that he's working on boost for lemmy. That's not no communication. It could be much better though
does it? where? it just says error for me
There was literally no reason for me to have the app after the API changes went live to see a message, and there were a TON of posts asking if he had plans to either deal with the API changes, or a possible lemmy port before they took place. At one point he said a firm NO, that he was going to focus on other smaller projects.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14ehiqs/comment/jow1le5/
Then a magazine appeared on lemmy created by the boost dev
And I've not seen a single update since then. Here or on the boost subreddit. His last post on reddit was 18 days ago.
Lack of communication for something so big is not seen as a positive by me. Sync on the other hand is giving daily updates, asking feedback on his discord, etc. I'll go with the dev that's talking to his loyal user base. He expects a build to be ready possibly this week.
Maybe some day I'll try boost for lemmy, but I'm not actively following it or looking forward to it at this point.
No offense, but you're way too needy. Updates would be nice, but it'll be ready when it's ready. It doesn't matter when we get it, there are plenty of usable apps in the mean time. I'll be switching because boost had all the functionality I wanted. More time means hopefully more functionality is baked in, maybe even better in-app video playing options.
Use Sync if you want, it doesn't matter.
If wanting an update is needy, then I guess I am. Oh darn.
But what will an update really change? Just register, click auto-install. And you'll get it when it's available.
It wasn't a post, it was a pop-up on the app. Boost continued working for several days after the API changes supposedly went live. And I'm not calling it a positive that he's not communicating, I'm just pointing out that there has been some communication when you and others seem to think there's been none.
I guess you missed the edit on the pinned post
Guess you're finally in luck.
Rubรฉn created and maintained Boost for Reddit as a single dev as far as I know, and I would assume he's doing the same for Lemmy. I don't think he was ever frequently communicating on Reddit either, only now and then. Plus, he wasn't going to create a Lemmy version of Boost initially, so it really hasn't been in development long.
You just have to be a little patient.