What's the status?

[9yzj428xvx-boop]

So, what's the current status of this project? The website is down, it has a new location on Github and no progress in the last 6 weeks. Is it dead?

[ljbred08]

I certainly wouldn't call it dead! If you look at commits, what you mean is no progress in the last three weeks. This just means that @nbonamy is likely spending a bit more time on the enterprise version of this program, StationOne.

(BTW nbonamy, most of the features of StationOne we don't need in Witsy, but there were a small few that I thought might be good improvements--have to go back and make a list of those. Only because they were features that I could see myself making a PR for at some point, and if you use the same code instead it means that the codebases are similar--I don't know how close you want to keep them for purely the sake of maintaining.)

Situation: The project got acquired by Kochava and they hired nbonamy, so he has been putting time towards making an enterprise version for them. This is the reason for the new location on Github. Luckily, he has still been putting some work into Witsy when he can, for which I am grateful.

Website down is because he moved it to a new domain and didn't apparently keep the old one with a redirect, which might have been nice for SEO.

[9yzj428xvx-boop]

So, it got acquired by some company, which haven't shared any news on the acquirement (nor did nbonamy himself). The enterprise version you say he works on is nowhere mentioned and the open source version hasn't got any update in 2 months now. There is absolutely no statement of what is going to happen with this open source version.
You can imagine how strange and not trustworthy this sounds?

I was very happy with Witsy, but I'm looking for a replacement because this doesn't give me any trust in the future of this software.

[ljbred08]

Understandable, I might point out though that if you click on the "Announcements" tab in the discussions, the last two announcements clearly share the news. As for the future, this is the whole point of open-source code because anyone could technically continue the project if it ever truly "died".

[9yzj428xvx-boop]

Yeah, I see them now. Never thought about looking in a "Witsy’s Next Chapter: New Stewardship and License Update" or "Witsy 3.0 Release Announcement" announcement from 7-9 months ago for recent take-over news, but that's probably my fault.

I understand the whole "continue when died" point, but I am no programmer. I just want a AI companion tool which receives frequent updates and is well maintained. And that is what I am missing at this point. So thanks for all hard work.

[cfm-kochava]

Thanks all... A quick update to share that we've been making a lot of progress with StationOne and we're selectively deciding what we back-port into Witsy vs incorporate into the free version of StationOne. We have been light on community - heavy on code updates... sorry for the radio silence. Stay tuned.