Are you ready for Liftoff? - Lemmy.World
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Limbo [https://lemmy.world/post/356685] and Limmynade [https://bigfoot.ninja/c/lemmynade] have joined forces, and will continue development together as Liftoff! The past couple of weeks have been tremendously exciting times for all of us as events elsewhere have led to a massive growth in interest in and usage of Lemmy. Our two separate projects both started with the intention of bringing an existing open-source code base Lemmur [https://github.com/LemmurOrg/lemmur] up to date, with the aim of helping new users to have a great first experience of Lemmy, while giving existing users access to many rich features. As soon as we became aware of each other we realised that we would work much more effectively by combining our efforts. Read more about what makes Liftoff! special [https://lemmy.world/post/527432]. We are: Zach—Extensive experience in Enterprise full stack architecture and infrastructure. Michael—Many years experience of developing and managing commercial and open source software projects. Liftoff! is written in Dart [https://dart.dev/] for API support and Flutter [https://flutter.dev/] for front-end development, meaning that it can run wherever Flutter runs. Our primary targets right now are Android and iOS, but the sky’s the limit! Our current development priorities are to: - Ensure that the app runs robustly on iOS and Android platforms. - Identify and address any major bugs affecting key functionality - Work to improve the user experience on both platforms. - Release 1.0 version Beta builds now available on TestFlight [https://testflight.apple.com/join/e6ZEbxuR] and will soon be available on F-Play and Google Store. (Note that the TestFlight page still refers to it as Limbo, but it does indeed install as Liftoff!) Liftoff code is made available under GPL2.0 and can be found at https://github.com/liftoff-app [https://github.com/liftoff-app] We have already had tremendous support from enthusiastic Lemmy users as separate projects and we look forward to continuing to work with you all. Code contributions, bug fixes, issue reports and suggestions are all welcome, so please join us on our journey into the unknown!

Hi All,

It has been a crazy few days as I’ve been trying to keep up with all your great feedback about the app.

When it was pointed out that there was another app in development using the same codebase, I was really interested to see how they were progressing, and in discussing our two projects we very quickly realised that we could move so much faster if we joined forces.

So we’ve just announced our new combined app Liftoff!

We’ve brought together the best parts of both projects and have opened up the source for the project for your inspection and contributions.

We will be using GitHub for logging issues, and I will ensure over the next couple of days that all the points that have been raised here or through TestFlight are captured there.

If you want to have longer discussions and interactions with us, we have a new community at https://lemmy.world/c/liftoff.

Thanks all for your support, encouragement and criticism, and I hope to be hearing from you at the new community.

Thanks, Michael