Layoffs have reduced the Nova Launcher from twelve members to just a single one man team. What does this mean for the launcher's future?

Branch Metrics sucks. They fired almost of all people working for Nova.

    • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      It’s pretty much already very usable. I have been on version 12 alpha for a long time and now on 14 beta 2, all in all since nearly a year.

      • underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        I’ve had it freeze up on me several times, where I had to reset the app to get it working again. It works most of the time, but I wouldn’t recommend it yet for general use.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Seems like it is missing a lot of the conveniences that I was once used to with Nova, though. No ability to reposition the search bar or keep it in place on other pages, no docked apps, no button to open the app drawer, the home screen grid has fixed padding and so on.

        I’ve since switched to Niagara which has been okay, but I’ve never found anything else like Nova since.

  • FurtiveFugitive@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Meh. Nova is the best launcher in my opinion but I’ve already been version locked to the last release before this company bought it. I’ve basically given up in anyone else replicating the features I want. So I’ll be using this version of Nova until Google finally breaks it.

    • wolfpack86@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Same! I refuse to update it and got a little annoyed at a post I saw where the dev (at least I think it was him) said “hey it’s 1 year later and the world hasn’t exploded”. Found that a little annoying.

      Let’s hope he gets control of the app back and can do nova again, without this shit baked in.

      Edit: guess I should have RTFA first. Gross

  • Dave.@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Immediately switches to google play to turn off auto update for Nova Launcher

  • experbia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    weird. who could have predicted a rug pull from an analytics and spyware company… lol.

    if you get in bed with adtech vipers and don’t anticipate problems, you’re gullible as hell. if you don’t stop them (or worse, if you let them) ad people will sell you, your soul, and your passion to the devil for a single penny.