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Voyager is created by a single person - Alexander Harding. Github lists him as the main contributor, with 58 other people helping. You can sponsor the project on GitHub, Liberapay or Patronite.
Voyager might be maintained by a single person, but let’s not fool ourselves who created it. Voyager is a direct clone of Christian Selig’s Apollo for Reddit.
I love Voyager as much as the next Lemming, but I’ll be damned if credit isn’t given where credit is due.
AFAIK the Apollo source code was never open sourced. So while the UX is clearly a successor to Apollo, the code was built from the ground up.
A spiritual successor, if you will.
I suppose it depends on your perspective of the ship of Theseus.
As I recall that hypothetical requires that you start with the ship and replace things over time, not that you saw it once and try to replicate it.
My point is that the blueprint of the original app is there whether or not it was rebuilt from scratch. The developer may have rewritten the app themselves, but at the end of the day we’re essentially using Apollo for Lemmy hence the reference.
I don't think you've ever created a single thing in your life, let alone a computer program. There's no other possible expansion.
We're not essentially using a Benz horseless carriage.
Christian did not create Voyager. It's UI is an homage to Apollo but he had nothing to do with it. Calling him it's creator is pure nonsense.
Precisely why I use it.
When Apollo died, a bit of my soul went too. Voyager really helped with the transition.