Limbo and Limmynade 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 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.
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 for API support and Flutter 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 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
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!
Can I choose which account I comment from? If I have my sh.itjust.works acct and lemmy.ca acct signed in I'd still rather comment on Lemmy.ca communities with my sh.it acct since I check it more often.
The feature is cool for seemlesly interacting with beehaw but otherwise I'd like more control.
Great app otherwise though.
We're certainly looking at how we make the multi-account feature work better for people, thanks for the example.
Yeah, I had trouble wrapping head around some of it at first. If I understand when I select a different instances local feed I'm also automatically signing in to that acct?
Yes, we use your credentials on that server for anything that requires authentication, such as voting or posting and picking up your subscriptions.
Is there any way to override that? I'd rather use this account on Lemmy.ca communities despite actually have a lemmy.ca account.
We've got some issues open and are thinking about how to manage all this in the future, but at present if you've subscribed to them from lemmy.world and are in your [email protected] feed, your interactions should automatically use your lemmy.world credentials. Let me know if that works for you.