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After some back-and-forth with a few people, some very generous drinking about it, and, quite frankly, just not having a new hobby lined up yet, I've decided to un-archive the repo and continue limited development of Tesseract.

What do I mean by limited?

  • By and large, it'll be in maintenance mode only.
  • I'm no longer spending time here on the platform (this announcement notwithstanding). This means I will not notice annoyances and bugs like I used to. Any bug/annoyance must be user-reported in detail on Github.
  • Mod tooling will likely not see any changes except maybe bugfixes. I have stepped down as mod in all communities and self-destructed my instance, so there is no longer any way for me to test privileged API calls.
  • There will probably never be support for Lemmy 1.0 or anything beyond the current 0.19.x API
  • Piefed support is still up in the air; if/when Piefed support happens, it will be in place of Lemmy and not concurrent with.
  • The Matrix rooms ~~and support/announcement community~~ are not coming back. All bugs, questions, etc will need to be submitted via Github. New versions will not be announced other than in the "Releases" list on Github
  • ~~The unlocked, hosted instance formerly at "tesseract.dubvee.org" will not be coming back; you will need to self-host or ask your instance admin(s) to offer it as an alternative UI.~~
  • I'm more likely to remove features and fine tune what's left than add anything new.
  • I am taking a more opinionated approach to options, settings, etc. The codebase has become a fustercluck, so some options are likely on the chopping block in favor of "this is just how it is"

1.4.42 is in development.

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[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 7 months ago
[–] scytale@piefed.zip 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hopefully they get fully back on board if they end up liking piefied. I’m fine with Tesseract becoming primarily a piefed client.

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 7 points 7 months ago

Solid, I will personally continue hyper-limited dev of tesseract, should the need arise.
What do I mean by hyper-limited? Meaning I have less than 0 ideas how, but do feel confident carrying the torch to the next or learning a lot via failure either way

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

Thank you !

[–] leaf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

The hero lives on!

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

I was so confused, what's an open source OCR tool got to do with Lemmy? 😂😂