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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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You sound like the dev is just a Karen who can't handle criticism. But in fact that he was receiving death threats (literally) because he dared to change the UI and UX of the app in a major revamp (even though that version was in beta for months and nobody complained). That's why he stopped for one year
The higher price might also help him be motivated to update the app frequently. I'd still be on the lookout for alternatives and the hate sync is getting is pretty rash atm.
The price might also go down as his userbase increases. The amount of people using the fediverse doesn't yet compete with the previous reddit numbers so in order to live off it he needs more per transaction.
Sorry, I don't want it to sound like that. He can take a break whenever he wants but for me as a user I simply used his app, found it very good but over time it broke and when I checked out the sub I just saw that many people pointed to this and also that it has "happened before". No biggie for me but since a few things weren't working anymore I started to look for another app in the many apps that existed and found myself on Infinity so that's most likely what I personally will use if the fork gets anywhere.
Also, I don't want to downplay it because it is still serious but you get death threats for everything on the internet. I've literally yet to see any drama no matter how big or small where this apparently wasn't the case. It's sad.
Just because it's normal doesn't mean it's fine. Wtf is this defending death threats...
He was also doing a PhD at the same time, and writing a dissertation is not exactly a small feat.