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It looks like this project has been abandoned for over a year. There's quite a few rough edges that stand out pretty distinctly: some buttons have a pressed sta
by bastawhiz 4y ago
It looks like this project has been abandoned for over a year. There's quite a few rough edges that stand out pretty distinctly: some buttons have a pressed state, others don't. Some controls have transitions or animations, while others which I'd expect to have transitions do not. Spacing and margins seem off (even the tiles on the Examples page). Some of the styles on the Layout documentation are broken due to specificity issues. Sizing is mixed: select boxes are very small compared to text inputs, while the switch control is absolutely massive. Most of the text is very large, but the mobile tabs' text is almost unreadably small. But this is a small personal project, it seems, and nobody is expecting high-end results.
But here's the thing: the project is sponsored. Moreover, the website of the company that sponsors the project is down. Which, for a mostly-abandoned project, isn't surprising. But if you look up Fractal Technologies online, the two employees other than the CEO have been working there for under two years. Moreover, Fractal has been a sponsor since March 2021 [0]: there have been only a handful of commits since the sponsorship began. It's curious that an "IT Services and IT Consulting" company specializing in blockchain, AI, and IoT which doesn't seem to have a website would sponsor a project which is mostly unmaintained. The more I read about the business and the employees, the more questions I have.
[0] https://github.com/codedgar/Puppertino/commit/e8426d11646c4b11f2371a542ce3e7df3185ee91 https://github.com/codedgar/Puppertino/commit/e8426d11646c4b...
- b1ue64 4y agoThe latest commit is from May 23 of this year. That's not "abandoned for over a year". Fractal Technologies is still very suspicious though.
- airtonix 4y agoI wouldn't call this commit you speak of as something that makes me think "yeah, they're still fixing stuff" https://github.com/codedgar/Puppertino/commit/b0148279d453db2322c7a23fa1116e2ccd53262c https://github.com/codedgar/Puppertino/commit/b0148279d453db... this commit is just fluff.
- bastawhiz 4y agoThe last time any CSS—for a CSS framework—was changed was April 2021.
- MDWolinski 4y agoMy guess is a new company needs some traffic, recognition, whatever… So, instead of spending marketing dollars, they get attached to something Apple related and hope the Apple media echo chamber generates enough traffic to build their business off of.
- bastawhiz 4y agoI'd agree, but their website is down.
- xwdv 4y agoUsually the answer is some kind of money laundering. I know it’s what you’re getting at. It’s rife in the space.
- codedgar 4y agoHeyoo! I'm Codedgar, the creator of Puppertino! The project hasn't been abandoned for over a year, it's just that my life has been very busy these days, I've been working on a new version for a while, just haven't found the time nor inspiration to work on this. I don't wanna go onto details with my relationship with Fractal technologies. They seemed like cool people but I really never had the opportunity to expand Puppertino with them. I've seen a lot of people throwing shade at them, and I was planning on removing their sponsor once the next version appeared, but I will do a quick commit to remove them ASAP. Puppertino never really took benefits with my short relationship with Fractal, and everything Fractal related is their own and not related to Puppertino since last year.