TestFlight expiring in 9 days
TestFlight expiring in 9 days
I don't mean to sound entitled, and I hope that the author of Arctic is in good health. But, with the TestFlight soon expiring and the AppStore version somewhat outdated, I was hoping if there would be anyone who had any news about updates? Or, should we be looking for alternatives?
I used arctic a little, but decided to build my own alternative. It’s very actively maintained.
The clock is kinda ticking with all these apps, since Lemmy V1, in the next year ish, will bring breaking changes. I’m committed to Lemmy V1 support, and if you don’t like my app, I’m pretty confident Voyager will also have Lemmy V1 support.
I wasn't sure about trying yet another app since Arctic really hits a sweet spot for me but yours is really good. It looks polished and is laid out how I generally prefer. Does it support any push notifications for DMs, replies, etc? Also if you have a TestFlight build I'm happy to run that as well.
Not yet. I’m trying to have Blorp not depend on any remote web server at all. I was thinking about doing local notifications, but the caveat would be 1) 15 delay and 2) app has to be running in the background.
Not depending on a web server means lower cost/maintainer for me, and people can more easily fork my project. Then for the notification content, I’m thinking it’s a summary “15 unread replies and 2 dms”.
Is that a good enough solution or is that significantly worse than push notifications in your opinion?
I literally just installed your app (on Android) to give it a whirl about 15 minutes ago. I'm afraid to ask how you chose the name...
Glorp glorp kinda sounded like a Rick and Morty character, and it made me laugh. I don’t think it is a character, but I was like glorp glorp… Blorp? Lol
After having worked on this app for 6 months, I told my girlfriend I was gonna call it Blorp and she was like “yeah, let’s keep working on the name”. I bought blorpblorp.xyz and didn’t look back.
Also, happy cake day!
Arctic’s the only one with proper theme customisation, which is an accessibility requirement for many people :c
Interesting. Let me mess around with arctic themes. I do want to support increased contrast, but I wasn’t planning on theme support. But I could be convinced.
A bit late in asking, and I’m currently supposed to be paying attention to something else lol, but do you have or plan iOS support? I love Arctic but will need a replacement 🫡
Blorp supports iOS. I’m an iOS user myself so I actually do most of my testing there. There’s also a macOS app, though it’s currently distributed outside the App Store. My goal is to offer a great experience on every platform.
My favorite time to work on Blorp is when I’m supposed to be paying attention to something else. 50% of this project is to prove to myself that I’m capable of finishing a project lol.
Looks interesting your App 🧐. Does it support video playback, screenshots creation from comments and posts or uploads to a video hoster?