LunaSea is no longer being published and all related cloud services (including notifications) will be shut down in the near future
LunaSea is no longer being published and all related cloud services (including notifications) will be shut down in the near future
LunaSea is focused on providing a clean & unified experience for controlling self-hosted software remotely on your mobile devices.
From Discord:
Hello @everyone,
Unfortunately today is the day I have to announce that LunaSea is no longer being published and all related cloud services (including notifications) will be shut down in the near future.
For more information on when things will be shut down, please read the details here: https://www.lunasea.app/
I understand that this comes as a surprise and originally was not the intention for the project. However, with recently enforced changes by the Play Store (and possible other storefronts in the future) to require showcasing your legal personal residential address, I am no longer comfortable publishing mobile applications for privacy reasons.
Luckily for some time I have been able to get around this by utilizing an older ID to showcase an address I no longer reside at. Unfortunately, this no longer works and I am required to re-verify which I am not willing to do.
With this shut down also marks the closure of the Discord and Subreddit. For the time being this Subreddit and Discord will remain open, however all channels have been removed and no new posts allowed in the subreddit.
Once again, thank you to everyone for everything over the years, I couldn't have asked for a better community. ❤️
I wonder why they just don't publish on the fDroid store and continue?
Scratching my head over this as well. Yes, it might diminish casual discovery uptake that the app isn't in the Play Store, but for this target group I think most users would be comfortable downloading the app from Fdroid.
The larger issue with closing down the entire project including notification servers(!?) is probably a tell that there have been other factors weighing on the developer?
Either way, if the source code is openly available maybe others will pick up development in a way that isn't as vulnerable to corporate policy changes.
Because they don't want to obviously and is using this as a good way to shut down their work
The app has already been inactive for a while now. There hasn’t been any active development in several years. They clearly have no interest in continuing it, and just want to move on to other projects.
... or just publish the source on Github and let someone else continue the legacy.
Legasea
Exactly
Just go on fdroid or something, I don't understand why android app devs just give up with the play store. I get the reach is minimized but let's be real, the reach for this kind of app is already limited.
We are still allowed to sideload apps on Android, and the more projects on Fdroid or other alternative repos the better.
wow this really is too bad.
This was by far the best mobile interface for radarr, sonarr, etc.
Sad day.
If you're on Android, there's nzb360. The dev is awesome.
I’ve shrugged off a couple other apps because LunaSea was so good. Gonna miss it when it finally breaks.
I was looking forward to the successor app, but given the circumstances of the present situation I don’t see that happening now :(
Personal opinion, but for android at least, I always though nzb360 was dramatically better. May be a good alternative for anyone who will be missing LunaSea there.
Too bad about iOS though, the options there have always been sparse.
I looked it up and it looks really good. Kinda gushing over that torrent monitoring and Readarr support in beta.
I just wish the Dev would come up with a way to allow me to buy it without the play store.
The writing was on the wall for this one, development had effectively ended two years ago and had already slowed down significantly before that.
Anyone have an iOS app recommendation?
I use Ruddarr. Not bad, but it’s no LunaSea.
I honestly find Ruddarr better. I made the switch after the announcement.
Depends on what you need it for. The only way I need to interact with arr stuff normally is add new things. This I do with Ombi, which has a great app.
So, anyone forking and setting it up with ntfy.sh?
This is a shame, but Overseerr and the like work just fine and is as convenient as LunaSea ¯_(ツ)_/¯
¯\_(ツ)_¯
One is allowed to fork it and release it by themselves, I suppose?
Fo' shame, I kinda liked it but the writing was on the wall when they promised a V2 and things stalled, which, I suspect is because of things like Jellyseerr working on mobile not only just as well as Lunasea but, better?
I had the problem of someone who's usually not too bad at setting things up remotely telling them to go to a locally hosted Jellyseerr page, instead of them inputting API keys into Lunasea was night and day. :/