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How is Voyager for Lemmy funded? Or is it just community maintained? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by squire3@lemmy.world to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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I'm curious how Voyager for Lemmy is funded. Or is it just community driven so the workload and potential costs are spread out far enough that nobody is footing the bill all by themselves?

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[–] gressen@lemm.ee 104 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Voyager is created by a single person - Alexander Harding. Github lists him as the main contributor, with 58 other people helping. You can sponsor the project on GitHub, Liberapay or Patronite.

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Voyager might be maintained by a single person, but let’s not fool ourselves who created it. Voyager is a direct clone of Christian Selig’s Apollo for Reddit.

I love Voyager as much as the next Lemming, but I’ll be damned if credit isn’t given where credit is due.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 81 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

AFAIK the Apollo source code was never open sourced. So while the UX is clearly a successor to Apollo, the code was built from the ground up.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago

A spiritual successor, if you will.

[+] veeesix@lemmy.ca -38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I suppose it depends on your perspective of the ship of Theseus.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As I recall that hypothetical requires that you start with the ship and replace things over time, not that you saw it once and try to replicate it.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 33 points 2 weeks ago

Christian did not create Voyager. It's UI is an homage to Apollo but he had nothing to do with it. Calling him it's creator is pure nonsense.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Precisely why I use it.

[–] DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago

When Apollo died, a bit of my soul went too. Voyager really helped with the transition.

[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

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