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With a lot of open source projects being worked on largely out of passion rather than financial gain I feel like there must have been several times where a release caught people off guard and "came out of nowhere" with its impressive scale.

To give some examples of how this might happen maybe it was an initial release dropped to the public in a complete state that had been worked on for a while privately or a project that was dormant for an extended period of time and picked back up.

Can anyone here think of an example? It doesn't necessarily need to be something groundbreaking maybe it got people excited in a very specific niche.

If you do have an answer I'd appreciate it if you could elaborate on it.

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Wire's new app just got pushed to fdroid. It was all but broken for a few years with no new updates on fdroid

Update: Wire is probably the best encrypted messaging app. Its free, has no phone number requirement, has Foss apps on all platforms, messages sync on all platforms seamlessly, and all messages are encrypted (its not possible to send unencrypted).

https://wire.com

[-] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 2 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago)

Interesting. Since the CEO of Telegram was arrested in France last month, I’ve read countless threads on c/privacy about which messaging app is best for privacy, and the two names that seem to come up the most are Signal and any Matrix client (e.g. Element); however, some commenters point out Signal’s phone number requirement and I forget what the other caveats are.

I don’t recall reading about Wire in any of those threads, but at a glance it seems to check all the boxes (open source, always-on encryption, etc).

Am I missing something? Any ideas why this app wouldn’t come up in such discussions?

EDIT: Hmm, I just went back and re-read a thread from last week, and Wire is actually mentioned. Maybe I’ve just always mentally skipped over it until now.

[-] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 12 points 7 hours ago

Florisboard (Android keyboard) was recently updated for the first time in two years. Literally one day after I had given up on it and uninstalled it.

https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Note for any new comments:

It helps if you add an explanation of what it does, or link to read more. The name often isn't descriptive enough, and people love to find new things to use.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 10 points 9 hours ago

Ghidra. Boom, here is 90% of ida pro. Enjoy.

[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 4 points 8 hours ago

Ghidra the code reverse engineering tool for analyzing code?

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[-] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago

Finamp's current alpha was a huge surprise to me. I stopped looking at development for a few months and in that time they completely reworked it

[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

I dunno... Jellyfin does great as a Video media player/streaming platform. I prefer to not have everything in the same basket.

Also, this is better for Dev, so they only have to concentrate to one type of thing. I would rather suggest navidrome as a music server and Tempo as a music client for android !!

Tempo doesn't get updated so much (every few months) but he/she takes his time to make his player functional and very pleasing to the eyes.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

Wow the UI is nice

https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp

Finamp is a Jellyfin music player for Android and iOS. It's meant to give you a similar listening experience as traditional streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, but for the music that you already own. It's free, open-source software, just like Jellyfin itself.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Nextcloud has had some amazing updates recently. Adding Nextcloud Hub comes to mind.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Is it an app for android or just the webpage that integrates all the cloud features like notes, files, etc. Sorry for noob question.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago

https://nextcloud.com/hub/

Hub integrates the four key Nextcloud products Files, Talk, Groupware and Office into a single platform, optimizing the flow of collaboration. Eliminate the confusing hodgepodge of different SaaS tools and the compliance, security, cost and productivity issues that come with it and standardize on a single solution with Nextcloud Hub.

Cool!

[-] Treeniks@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 hours ago

MuseScore had a big UI rework with MuseScore 4, with an excellent video about the behind the scenes by Tentacruel (https://youtu.be/XGo4PJd1lng).

Although not sure if it caught people off guard as I'm not a user of it.

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago
[-] Treeniks@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago
[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

Can I have a link?

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

I do enjoy his videos. Apparently he working on the audacity overhaul too. Haven't heard (or looked) at it a few years. Last I head was the freakout when the dared to add some basic telemetry to figure how people actually used the software.

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