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Branch recently fired a bunch of their team, including all Nova support and all but one dev. (After raising hundreds of millions a few years ago.) Frankly Nova is still looking great, but Branch will strangle it eventually.

Branch is apparently a $4B Silicon Valley startup, that raised $300M just two years ago. They can afford Nova’s team of twelve, or at least more than one fucking dev. They even fired Cliff, the one guy doing support (social, Discord, email, etc).

That said, I wish they wouldn’t have sold out. Nova is one of the few things I want to subscribe to, very well earned. Nobody can reasonably complain about $10-20 per year for “Prime Ultra” or something. I don’t even see a donate button in settings.

It’s almost the least someone at the campaign could do. I’ll donate eventually (they seem to be doing fine for now!), but it would be great to see them show some love for the superior principled social media outcasts of the fediverse and Mastodon.

I’m also using Nova Launcher (on Pixel 6A), received Android 14 update, haven’t had any problems. Or frankly noticed many differences at all, which makes me hope they spent the year squashing bugs? Right, Google? …

Same here. I played around with the settings (extremely limited, typical of Google), but ended up just deleting the widget. I’m using Nova Launcher on a Pixel 6A. Hope it at least fits the default launcher UI better, otherwise it’s just terrible.