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Bought lifetime, no updates since then. Last activity from Steve’s account (the developer) on Lemmy was over 3 months ago.

A month ago his colleague had an update. Nothing since then.

Did I just throw away my money on this app? Or do you guys think development will start up again?

Also, what do you guys think is the best alternative to Bean with a similar UI?

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[–] steve228uk@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey CrispyWeinis, I want to express my apologies that I’ve made you feel as if you’ve wasted your money. That was of course never my intention but it’s clearly the situation that a lot of people are feeling.

Thank you for raising the question and I hope to turn things around in the coming weeks. I’ve posted a dev update to the Bean community.

Hopefully you can bear with me a little longer to fix things.

  • Steve
[–] CrispyWeinis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Did not expect to hear from you, very glad to see this message. Thanks for the update!

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First I've heard of Bean but I really like Connect

[–] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Second Connect. Similar to RIF which is what i was looking for.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’d suggest switching to Avelon. Mlem/Memmy/Voyager/Thunder honorable mentions.

[–] vind@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[–] jasep@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Also Liftoff

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, I’m probably not purchasing any lemmy apps because any update or lack of updates could break it or make it obsolete.

Avelon free is good if you can handle no multi-account support, limited filter options, and needing to manually insert images into replies. Maybe the 1.99 monthly for more accounts and filters is worth it while it works, but idk about that $30 lifetime for the same potential problem with Bean.

Voyager seems good all around. (edit: it’s missing instance blocking, but that won’t be an issue whenever the new Lemmy version that includes it gets deployed.)

Memmy is ok if you don’t want to hide posts, because it does it at the instance level where Lemmy inexplicably hides your own posts from your own profile page.

[–] orangeNgreen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I’m still hopeful that Bean’s development will continue. It’s my favorite by far.

But my backup app is Thunder. It’s missing things like the ability to edit posts or make “pinned” subscriptions, though, which I’m hoping get added soon.