Stingle development - appears to have stalled?

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Hi Stingle Team @alexamiryan @rahar

I am a Stingle user with an active cloud subscription - I found your App in F-Droid :slight_smile:

I am indeed a fan of the app you have produced. Besides having peace of mind that my data is secure I like the fact you allow users to organise photos in “proper” albums, not simply labels. This means that I can move photos to albums and then delete them from the main gallery without worrying about them disappearing from the album. This is a breakthrough feature for me.

A couple of questions:

  1. Can you confirm if the app is still in development - I note a few bugs/UX issues

    1. When you opt to delete the photo after it being copied to stingle this causes the app to crash

    2. The app currently lacks full-screen edge-to-edge support on Android

  2. A desktop app has been on the roadmap for a while - but I am yet to hear anything more about this. Having this would be great.

I would gladly sponsor beyond what I pay for the cloud service but this would only be in the same way I do for my other favourite FOSS tools (Joplin, Thunderbird, LibreOffice - $100-$200) so by no means a groundbreaking sum or enough to help you hire additional development resources.

Please do keep up the great work and development - I believe there is sufficient use-case and demand for what you’re offering.

Looking forward to an update soon.

Kind regards

James

No (legitimate) reason for this to be hidden. If anyone has objections pls raise below in thread..

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https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/remove-stingle/18884/29

It’s already been removed from the site for an extended lack of maintenance.

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Please search through this forum before asking questions about specific services. I also advise posting questions under the right category such as Questions instead of Site Development or Site Development > Guide Suggestions. Thank you.

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It’s unclear why my post was hidden even temporarily.

My attempts were in an effort to ask @alexamiryan and @rahar to be transparent about the future of the project - seems fair.

They have repeatedly stated that development will resume in the future but all trends point towards no activity in recent times.

A couple of bugs/UX issues noted are:

  1. Lack of full screen app on android
  2. When the app offers to delete photo from device post upload this fails and causes app to terminate and crash

There was talk of a desktop app but I’ve not seen any outline of a repository at all..

This app and service have a very strong foundation and so much potential, it would be good to see more resource channelled towards it

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I think migrating out of Stingle could be your solution. @alexamiryan doesn’t post since January and @rahar since 2024, maybe you should reach them directly if you really need some answers from them, because I doubt they’ll reach back to you here in the forum. You can see more in this thread: Remove Stingle .