Hello all, and happy New Year!

If you haven’t heard of Interstellar before, it’s an Mbin and Lemmy app (available on Android and Linux). It includes many interesting features such as Settings Profiles (easily change a group of settings at once), a Markdown Editor with automatic (and manual) draft support, Push Notification support through UnifiedPush, content filter lists to hide (or warn about) content that matches from a list of words (including different match modes, such as Whole Word and RegEx), Microblogging from Mbin, and much more. I’ve also worked on an upcoming feature that will allow you to migrate your magazine (community) and user subscriptions & blocks between your signed-in accounts. This includes some interoperability between Mbin & Lemmy accounts as well!

Interstellar still has much to be worked on though, and it is starting to be too much for just one person. So, I am putting out this request for any Flutter developers who would like to help make Interstellar better. If this sounds interesting, please take a look at the GitHub and join the Matrix (chat) so we can figure out the next steps.

Below are some of the major goals I have for Interstellar (no specific order):

• Finish up the redesign
• Release on more platforms, including iOS, macOS, and Windows
• Flesh out Lemmy support
• Create an official list of features, and update old screenshots
• Create a landing page website for Interstellar

I feel an iOS release is much more viable than it was a year ago, thanks to our sponsors. If you don’t know, an Apple developer account costs $100 annually! If anyone’s interested in iOS support, let me know so I can collect votes. I don’t have a Mac, though, so I’d have to use a virtual machine to get publishing set up; hopefully I could get it automated afterward. It would also be very helpful if I had a collaborator who could lead the Apple side of things, including testing, development, and possibly releases; that would make Apple support way more viable.

Other ways to contribute

• Report bugs: If you find any bugs you’d like to report, you can create an issue on GitHub or post on the Mbin magazine or Matrix chat.
• Translate: If you’d like to help localize Interstellar, the translations are made through the Hosted Weblate.
• Financially: If you’d like to donate monetarily, you can see a list of options on kbin.earth’s about page, or in the sponsor section on the GitHub.
• Feedback: Any feedback is great (good or bad); it helps me know what features are used, what aspects to focus on, what to improve, etc. At the moment, no telemetry or analytics are used, so the only feedback I have is what you guys tell me. If you have any ideas for the app too, feel free to share.

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