I just tried your app, and I’m quite impressed!

As for ideas, personally I like being able to see user avatars in the comments, and as you already mentioned in the pros for Eternity: theming. I wish I could edit some of the colors of different types of text, such as the username, title text, and upvote/downvotes to all be different colors. community text, etc.

As it is, the only thing differentiating the different types of text is their size, which I’m betting is fine for most users, but personally that feature is what drew me to Eternity, as it just helps me parse information better.

Good app tho! And cheers for making it open source! :D

No worries dude! ^^

I made sure to check before making the post.

But that may be a bad point of comparison, since Boost is supported by ads, so they can afford to make the premium version cheap. Whereas Eternity has always been ad-free, yet doesn’t seem to have received all that many donations. :(

I’ve tried just about every app available for android, and personally I’ve settled on Voyager for Lemmy as a potential replacement for Eternity. I did the same migration coming here from Liftoff, but at least for now, we may want to test the waters elsewhere. :(

If you have the means, you may want to consider sending the Eternity dev a donation, to show him that it’s worth continuing, as well as in thanks for the many months of joy it has brought us already.

I may be wrong, but I believe that may reflect deleted comments

Personally I use a Kobo Libra, as it supports sideloading books manually, supports various formats (epub, pdf, etc), has a nice backlit e-ink display, and physical buttons for page turns in addition to the touch screen.

Also doesn’t support Amazon, which is always a plus. Nice bit of kit.

Mastodon will hopefully naturally grow as twitter continues to destroy itself. Lemmy might be a bit harder get people to stick with.

If they can find an instance that really fits them, or most of their communities are here, then it should be an easy transition. But if they’re missing their favorites, it’ll be tough to get them to stick with it.

Love the idea of this. I believe slowly building up these alternative, open-source and decentralized platforms will be pay off long term as the centralized platforms bloat and die via enshittification.

Firefox requires this addon to install PWA’s onto the system, unfortunately. But the application can be used from any browser if you don’t mind using it there.

The source code is available here, and though he mentions only open-sourcing the old version, Version 4 (the latest) appears to be available there under the MIT license.

The Google docs integration is, AFAIK, only there if you want to access your document from anywhere and any device. Otherwise it works perfectly well standalone, allowing you to save your document in either wavemaker format or as a .doc.

It doesn’t require either of those, google docs integration is entirely optional.

There isn’t any. It’s open source software that the Dev made for himself, and chose to make available for free.

Ooh, FocusWriter is a good one. Nowadays I tend to avoid the ultra minimalist ones, but when I used Focus writer it always worked well.

Manuskript is unfortunately a very buggy piece of software, with regular freezes and crashes. And the UI is, in my opinion, extremely clunky and unintuitive. I love open source software, but I can’t in good conscience recommend anyone use it.

Scrivener did have a linux version that they stopped developing, and they ended up giving away the last version. Someone packed it in an appimage for easy use, should be able to find it if you search appimage scrivener. It’s a pretty feature complete release, and still works well to this day.

I don’t think the fix has been pushed to a new release yet. I just encountered it myself.