After Working on it alone for a year, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher Kevin Barry has stopped working on Nova Launcher and the open sourcing efforts. More Info: https://teslacoilapps.com/nova/solong.html

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[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I had noticed that Nova had been falling behind for the last couple of years, but I didn't know why. I've been using it for over 10 years.

It sounds like a case of "buy it, kill it" which is pretty sad. If it had been open sourced we might have been able to improve it and keep it alive.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, they laid off the whole team behind Kevin. I would quit too, if I saw my creation fall that way.

[–] norambna@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What team? He wrote he was the only one working on Nova for the past year.

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 month ago

Yea because they laid everyone off already

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