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1y ago

Christian's first reaction to Voyager

This is from a couple of months ago but it came up after my previous post. It does seem like he doesn’t really like Voyager, but oh well.

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Anyways...

He doesn't like Voyager for good reason though; the app basically one-for-one copied what he had built for reddit but pointed it at Lemmy instead. If somebody took something I had developed and changed very little from the outside, I would be upset too.
I think he's totally within reason to dislike what is essentially a ripoff of his intellectual property. That being said, I'd be surprised if he decides to make the developers have repercussions for following his design so closely.
- Design wise yes it is a one to one copy, but Voyager was built from the ground up as a web app, which is completely different to Apollo’s “native Apple app” philosophy. So while it may seem at first “changed very little,” it is actually very different. He also isn’t interested in making his own “Apollo for Lemmy” so I think it’s fair to pass the torch down.
  
  I think the UI is still enough to get upset about, even if the structural changes underneath are very different.
  
  The design among all the Lemmy apps is essentially the same IMO. Far left you have your subscribed, bottom is the various sections.. there’s not that much to it really.
- People liked Apollo for the UI. That's the (not so) secret sauce. I'd be surprised if he liked seeing his years of hard work cloned.

I am confused. Didn't he release the Apollo design specifications after the APIcalypse. People were always going to release copycat apps using that.
Edit : Seems I was wrong
- He was asked if he would open source the project but from what I can tell he said no. It's not like it was obligatory for him to do that anyways, but when you read some of the comments in the other thread, it feels like almost a demand coming from the community rather than an ask.
  
  I was talking more about the UI specifications and not about open sourcing the entire app. In any case it seems I was wrong because I could find nothing relating to Christian sharing his code or specification relating to apollo's UI.
  This makes me respect @aeharding@lemmy.world even more because he was able to create an app pretty similar to Apollo(UI wise) by writing everything from scratch
- Can you share a link to his Apollo design specifications? I seem to have missed that
  
  It seems I was wrong. I remember reading somewhere that he would do this but I can find anywhere where he has said or done it

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