It already had a new owner which is why I stopped using it years ago.
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Once again the "Everything that's not FOSS will turn to shit at one point or another" theorem proves true.
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They got a new owner years ago. No one should still be using it. Lawnchair has been great for me.
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Ahh sonofabitch! It's already updated for me and there is no changelog. Turned off auto update.
Edit: and uninstalled. Lawnchair FTW.
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This used to be my favorite piece of software I paid for. Then..... 💩
But I don't wanna redesign my nice app tray and home screen. Can I just never update it?
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Lawnchair is pretty good.
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On 3, 2, 1,.... Everybody Juuuuuuump to any other good launchers
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Wow, I got scared, I thought that was the one I'm using but I switched to Niagara Launcher long ago
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I'm getting really tired of companies pissing all over my name!
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I've been using lawnchair (which is a great substitute) ever since the news of the buyout from an ad company was announced, but that was a long time ago... Not sure why this is coming up now.
Anyway, a few days back I found out a new launcher and I want to spread the love for it. It requires more effort to configure it at first but I'm really liking its UX and the simplicity of the screen. It is called dragon launcher and I am having a nice time making small incremental changes to personalize it more and more and has been working great for me: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.elnix.dragonlauncher
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Fuck. I bought this forever ago, either for my Droid 2 or my Galaxy S3. Skipped it on my first Pixel and came back on the Pixel 7.
Haven't really heard any talk about it, didn't know about the owner/dev drama until seeing some comments here.
Haven't noticed any ads myself yet, but maybe that's a "coming soon" thing.
Time to go launcher shopping again. This thread mentioned Lawnchair and Niagara, so I'll check those out first.
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I recommend Kvaesitso, very snappy with lots of functionality.
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I JUST STARTED USING IT TWO WEEKS AGO CMON
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Don't forget to leave a bad review before uninstalling it.
I just switched to Octopi. For me, it's an almost perfect replacement. Plus it's a local developer.
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Maybe after the big changes with the Linux desktop in the last year we might start to see renewed focus on a truly open source phone OS
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Thats why you want open source software, its the only software you can trust, its the only software that won't fuck you over
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I recommend dragon launcher or lawnchair
dragon is now my favorite, the ring design is awesome and the dev is active, but lawnchair is the most like nova but open source.
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Octopi Launcher is the best replacement. The developer is very active and listens to suggestions. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otp.octopilauncher
Fossify Launcher works well, that's what I switched to.
I ditched them years ago after they got bought out the first time.
Dang... I saw this a while ago, but thanks to this post I looked again and it turned out that mine had automatically updated to the new version on Play Store. Went ahead and uninstalled it and then installed the latest Beta from before, and I was lucky that my email license still worked - don't know for how long though (not sure if the check is hardcoded in some way or if it makes an API call).
It's had a great run, but it's just sad that it has to end like this. Would've been spectacular if it was open-sourced as promised.
I started looking into alternatives and it seems like no other launcher is quite there yet, but Lawnchair looks promising for my use. The whole situation started looking like the appropriate time to learn some Android development; a while ago I was thinking of forking the AOSP launcher and trying to implement some stuff by myself, but now it seems like contributing to Lawnchair would be a better idea.
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i like lawnchair launcher :3
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