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fmstrat ,

Neo Launcher is the way. FOSS with all the same features as Nova.

forbiddenlake ,
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You’re posting this brief message a lot, so I googled it, and, no releases since October 2022? Only on f droid and is there really no way to pay other than PayPal donations? Am I looking at the right neo launcher?

Development isn’t dead, but the lack of releases and fees (one time purchase, please) don’t give me confidence.

cadekat ,

It’s FOSS. It’s pretty normal for it to be a passion project or a community effort.

timbuck2themoon ,

I moved to lawnchair 2 beta (or whatever it is.) I liked neo but the promised release just never came. I kept having it crash and it always took a few seconds to restart.

Lawnchair has been reliable though even for a beta.

ModerateImprovement ,
@ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works avatar

One time purchase?

It’s a open source project, you can install it for free, but you could still donate.

As far as I can tell they are working on a new release.

Don’t use it now, but you can follow their GitHub/ F-Droid to see when they get a new release.

fmstrat ,

Dev seems close to next release, I put in a bug on searching with SearXNG and it was fixed the next day.

fmstrat ,

And looks like alpha 1 hit the release page.

experbia ,
@experbia@lemmy.world avatar

weird. who could have predicted a rug pull from an analytics and spyware company… lol.

if you get in bed with adtech vipers and don’t anticipate problems, you’re gullible as hell. if you don’t stop them (or worse, if you let them) ad people will sell you, your soul, and your passion to the devil for a single penny.

Moonrise2473 ,

It could be worse, like zipoapps that immediately ruined the simple mobile tools with ads and scammy weekly subscriptions

At least, for now, it looks like they acquired it for philanthropic reasons

kokesh ,
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People, calm down novalauncher.com/nova-aug-2024

flambonkscious ,

Nice catch! Thanks for calming things down

ModerateImprovement ,
@ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works avatar

For people who did not click the link:

The original Nova team, for many years, was just me. Eventually I added Cliff to handle customer support, and when Branch acquired Nova, Cliff continued with this role. I also had contracted Rob for some dev work prior to the Branch acquisition and some time after the acquisition closed we were able to bring him onboard as a contractor at Branch.

However, I’ve always been the lead and primary contributor to Nova Launcher and that hasn’t changed. I will continue to control the direction and development of Nova Launcher.

kokesh ,
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This reminds me of my neighbor informing me, that he is leaving WhatsApp, because he heard somewhere that WhatsApp is going to give all of his chats to advertisers. He switched to Signal for about a month, found out that nobody is there and it’s happily back on WhatsApp. All of this because WhatsApp allowed brands to store chats somewhere, the chats between the user and that specific brand. People often blow things out of proportion.

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