Hey @dfox consider to migrate devrant to flutter? I can contribute this. As the appcelerator titanium is discontinued.

They don't even have time/motivation to update the current clients.

I think we should make our own. I can help.

@WildOrangutan great. What's the devrant API?

@WildOrangutan nice . I will start a repo as an open source and see who want to contribute to devrant.

@WildOrangutan I will set up the codebase and get every assets ready.

Because the current app is too buggy. I hope by open source this we can help this platform and make it better.

But we need approval first from @dfox or any founder of this app.

Some clients exist already, so it may be ok :) Maybe others can comment on that.

Would be nice to get confirmation yeah, but I don't think we will get it.

I think it should be fine as long as we don't try to challenge their client. Like publishing it next to their own on the app stores :)

I guess copying is the ultimate form of flattery lol

@dfox @trogus what's your take on this? The idea of community creating clients for your API.

I could be wrong regarding the username.

My brain is bad at names. Very bad at names.

I know of at least 2 clients.

devRantron, dead since 2018

And another It think Windows only? Not sure, but someone posted some updates every now and then

@Omar sorry

@OmerFlame wrote AltRant

... Did I mention that my brain is bad at names?

I am planning to use flutter to develop once for Android, iOS , desktop client and it is easy to maintain.

📍

I'm a just pull up a 🪑 and share the 🍿

@C0D4 or P-orn without "OPC"

@johnmelodyme You can strip anytime babe 😆🤤

@johnmelodyme hold up, I'll go hire the bang bus

@C0D4 after this can I upload to my onlyfan

I don't think tagging dfox and trogus will help. They don't seem to be alive anymore, at least not on this platform :) Someone should send an email.

@johnmelodyme I'm feeling experimental. What if we tried using jetpack compose?

@WildOrangutan sure. What about iOS?

@WildOrangutan I really like jet compose but I chose flutter because we need one codebase for all platform iOS ,Android and with a clean codebase.

First I thought react native or ionic but then flutter is much stable in some sense so...

@johnmelodyme works for Android and desktop. Not sure how far iOS support is. But definitely possible.

But just fyi, for serious multiplatform client, I think Flutter is a better bet.

@WildOrangutan we are damn lucky that windows and blackberry phone are discontinued. Otherwise..... We will...

@WildOrangutan maybe we need first gather those who would like to contribute, and then we get the vote on what tech to use and when to start.

@johnmelodyme @WildOrangutan @IntrusionCM @C0D4 @netikras @ScribeOfGoD @dfox

https://devrant.com/collabs/...

!!!! Bear in mind, devRant TOS explicitly prohibits alternative devRant clients in app stores, both apple and google ones.

@kiki oh sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

@johnmelodyme this is why devRant PWA client is the only good alternative I see. The amount of work required is comparable to that of your proposal.

I would really be fine with devRant PWA client that allows to read rants, comments, answering, favourites, etc., but without avatar builder, as it's really complex. I can tolerate opening the official app to change my avatar.

This kind of 80% solution might be the good way to provide a devRant experience without constant crashes and stuff, all that without the app being a massive work that is very hard to pull off without a budget.

Also, if it's PWA, there is no need to pay for hosting.

@kiki maybe I will just have webview the web client 😁😁😁😁😁

It would be great to have a client on F-Droid, it doesn't really matter if it's on Google Play Store or not.

@electrineer but the problem is "what about iOS?"

@johnmelodyme I consider iOS discontinued if it doesn't have an alternative app store for open source apps

@electrineer oh no...

@electrineer I wish someone sponsor me to publish for iOS hahahaha

I have tried Flutter in the past (before I expanded my knowledge and knew the stuff I know today), and I really didn't like it. Flutter has an insane amount of potential though, maybe I'll try writing something this week or whatever.

Thanks for pinging me though! @Ranchonyx @IntrusionCM

@OmerFlame count me in ... I'm actively program for flutter application since 25 dec2018

@johnmelodyme you're like a prisoner, counting the days since your involuntary admission to death row.

Personally I love the buggy app :(

@dmonkey ...you like the crashes?