The devRant apps haven't been updated since 2020. 💀 There are 390 open issues on GitHub. 👀 What's going on? Is there an update in the making?

I don't think they are maintaining it anymore, they only interfere if there is an issue preventing users from using the service

Didn't we get pixelated avatars after 2020 tho? Or is time just passing by that fast?

Nope. The clients are dead (zombies, maybe?) and the public API is incomplete.

There is is no hope for official updates anymore.
The only hope is to open the API and allow 3rd party apps in the stores.

@Lensflare That's sad to hear. ☹️ I wonder if this poses a security threat and if our data is safe. I mean, if the API is not maintained anymore... 😔

@ScriptCoded that was mentioned in 1.14.3 - that was 6 updates ago 😅

Since then we got a bunch of fixes and the subscribed feed...

Which turned out to be a demo for https://pipeless.io/ and then that was the end of devRant.

@retoor well, the iOS app crashes regularly for who knows how many years.
And it locks dark mode behind a paywall.

@retoor That's also my experience. It works pretty smoothly. 👍🏻Unfortunately there are a lot of open issues though: https://github.com/devRant/devRant/...

@Lensflare That's what inevitably happens when devs keep sitting on their closed source code like a hen on its eggs. The devs lose motivation, nobody else can take it up.

@retoor 🤭🤭. oh yea the cringe option would be awesome

@retoor I’m not 100% sure but I think the "reason for downvote" feature is a placebo.
It’s not present in the API and it doesn’t seem to do anything in the official apps either.

@retoor didn’t know about that. I only know that rants and comments with -2 and lower votes are filtered out.
I need to try and verify it with the official app on occasion.

@C0D4 oh damn. Yeah... devRant's officially dead. It's been nice knowing you 🫡

@retoor it's @theabbie

having so many accounts would make me crazy lol. seems like someone has no life 🙃

@joewilliams007 it's not me, thanks for pinging anyways, almost forgot this platform exists.

@theabbie it is uu!!

According to the appstore the apps haven't been updated.

But isn't that because it's largely a webapp and there's some closed source repo pushing updates without the need for app store updates?

Even if the apps crash regularly it would be quite impressive to have an app running for 3 years without any changes.

@jiraTicket it doesn’t look like a web container. And the iOS app looks quite different from the Android app and the web app.

There is nothing impressive about an app not being updated and running for years. What should stop it from keep running?

@Lensflare True, feels rather native.

Regarding updates it depends on hosting and external services but I've had hobby projects I thought would live maintenance fee that I had to update because apis (logging, Auth, Google stuff etc) depreciated old versions, hosting providers required version updates, some providers raised costs, security vulns etc.

@retoor this one is gold haha