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

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Yay, @bazsalanszky@lemmy.toldi.eu 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?

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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.

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This is the best news ever!

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Good to hear. Luckilly, the app still works.

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

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

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I’m so glad to hear this! <edited>

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