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Eternity

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Eternity is a free and open-source Lemmy client, forked from Infinity for Reddit!

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

This is the best news ever!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I’m so glad to hear this!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yay, @[email protected] is alive!

Just like Lemmy instances with only a single admin, Lemmy apps with a single developer are very fragile. What would it take to improve the bus factor of Eternity?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good to hear. Luckilly, the app still works.

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Look, we have eternity and it's not going to be forever