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I'm curious how Voyager for Lemmy is funded. Or is it just community driven so the workload and potential costs are spread out far enough that nobody is footing the bill all by themselves?

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

A spiritual successor, if you will.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I suppose it depends on your perspective of the ship of Theseus.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

When Apollo died, a bit of my soul went too. Voyager really helped with the transition.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

George Soros and the buttery males are behind the whole thing

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My doctor says I shouldn't have butter. Can my males be olive oily? And also not males, please.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

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