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Any one know what happened to Raccoon For Lemmy? (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Edit 1: After I made this post I looked for the app everywhere, turns out the developer removed it from Fdroid and Google Play Store and even deleted the community.

I guess the client is done.

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[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's concerning. I'm typing this through Raccoon right now. Awesome client.

[-] ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago

After I made this post I looked for the app everywhere, turns out the developer removed it from Fdroid and Google Play Store and even deleted the community.

I guess the client is done.

[-] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Someone on Lemmy did a markdown test of all existing Lemmy apps and posted the results. Raccoon was one of the worst performers, and after seeing the results the dev went nuclear.

Here’s a comment on the original post talking about it. I think the thread’s OP ended up removing Raccoon from their results but the damage was already done.

[-] pfaca@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago

Just to add that it was the worst performer because the tester made some mistake when doing said markdown test. When he corrected the test it was nowhere near the worst, but it was already to late.

Some people (tester included) tried to reason with the dev, but to no avail. I think he was scared because he was using his real name in github, and didn't want to have bad code in his résumé or something like that.

IMHO, the dev overreacted. But it's his project so it's is decision.

Some people forked the project before it went down, so maybe we can see a comeback in the future.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 3 months ago

Raccoon was being pushed a lot on my instance, because the dev is Italian I think... Now I'm thankful I didn't switch

[-] pfaca@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

I was using it has my main Lemmy client, but no big deal. Fortunately there's a lot of clients to choose from.

[-] Hammerjack@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

The dev for Raccoon also had a Lemmy community to announce updates and things (he also deleted that community). Before he deleted it, he said that post about markdown support was the last straw and he was done with it. He announced he was going to delete everything related to Raccoon and it was all gone within like 12 hours of him saying that. He said any of the forks of his app can continue development, but since he deleted the entire repo with very little warning I don't know if any of those forks were current with the latest commit before the parent repo disappeared.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

For better or worse, any fork can still access that data.

[-] mashbooq@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

This one was

[-] kijetesantakalu@feddit.it 1 points 3 months ago

This was indeed updated to the last commit from upstream.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago

Isn't it GPL? Someone could request the code of the last release

[-] kijetesantakalu@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago

No need for that, because it has been forked and at least one fork was updated to the last commit.

BTW, only 2 people (besides the dev) in over one year submitted some line of code, it would be quite ironic that only after the original project has been shut down people start to be willing to contribute.

It's like willing to feed someone who has just been starved to death.