The Medito app is a (unsurprisingly) meditation/mindfulness app. Sort of the free software alternative to Headspace.
I haven’t used it in a long time and was curious to see how it was doing, but I saw this:

  • it’s only available on IzzyOnDroid now, I believe it used to be on F-droid at some point (edit: it wasn’t)
  • the available release is 2 years old

So I thought, maybe the app was sadly just archived, but no, it’s actually still under development, it’s just that no releases have been published on GitHub for 2 years (2.0.48 clearly titled “Deprecated”), instead the Play Store releases keep being pushed out as recently as 3 February 2025 (3.2.0).
Oh and the issues tab has been disabled, which seems very shady to me.
So I wonder what the heck went down with this excellent app, it may still be considered “free software”, also featuring the best licence (AGPL), but it looks like it has become unfriendly towards the community, I wonder why

  • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de
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    26 days ago

    I use the play store version and it’s still my favorite meditation app. But…

    Two of the founding members left the medito foundation last year. The blog post announcing their departure didn’t provide any explanation why they left. Steven was the face of their YouTube channel.

    Something must have happened when two founding members leave, but we can only guess.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolOP
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      26 days ago

      Interesting, I wonder if the 2 facts are somehow related, I don’t know what their stance was on the free software side of things, though I may have some emails saved from GitHub notifications that say something, I’ll look for those.

      Edit: I don’t have any on the topic of F-droid inclusion, unfortunately, just one about language support

  • ᥫ᭡ 𐑖ミꪜᴵ𝔦 ᥫ᭡@feddit.orgEnglish
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    26 days ago

    I loved this app when it worked, leaving it for 2 years without an update is careless (for the Fdroid version) they might as well archive it…

    Apparently they don’t want contributions anymore, from their Github

    We are a small team and are not looking for people who can contribute to the project at the moment. We don’t have time to onboard anyone, sorry.

    Also, the Download Section doesn’t mention F-Droid at all, at least not anymore

    If you want the content, see their YT channel, they pulled out the app, and they don’t want our help, their loss

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolOP
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      26 days ago

      We are a small team and are not looking for people who can contribute to the project

      This bogus argument is always big no no for me, clearly if they’d just been a small team they would not only accept, but enjoy whatever kind of contribution they can get from external people.
      They just don’t want to deal with the community and do whatever they want, I’m guessing.

      they don’t want our help, their loss

      Spot on!

      Glad to know I wasn’t alone on this, it is a shame really

      • ᥫ᭡ 𐑖ミꪜᴵ𝔦 ᥫ᭡@feddit.orgEnglish
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        26 days ago

        I’m speculating, but these things usually happen due to change of leadership, these moves usually indicate that the new leadership wants to make a quick buck… And they think you can’t do that through transparency

        enshitification perhaps…

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    25 days ago

    The variant on the Playstore is just a “paper weight” without internet connection.

    PASS

    There are tons of meditation timers on F-Droid, and the app SoundAura is great if you want to have different background noises