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. ❤️
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.
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.
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
… or just publish the source on Github and let someone else continue the legacy.
Haha. Oops. I should have checked first. Well done.
Silly billy
Legasea
Exactly
The writing was on the wall for this one, development had effectively ended two years ago and had already slowed down significantly before that.
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.
But not FOSS like LS unfortunately
It’s a bit pricey (and likely only going up in price with the upcoming licensing changes), but by far the best there is.
You lose a bit of functionality but you can use it for free
How does someone use something like this discreetly if its setup in the us?
What do you mean? The nzb360 app is just a front end for services you have running on a server somewhere. Are you asking how to run the backend part discreetly?
So, usually I run mulvad on my laptop before firing up qbtorrent, but how would something like this work? Is it just an app running on my phone where I still have to use mulvad?
This would just be a way for you to see what qbittorent is doing from your phone. In qbit you’d turn on a few settings and then point this app to what you just turned on, and then see what’s downloading from your phone.
The app isn’t doing anything beyond taking interpreting what your other programs (e.g., qbit, sonarr, radarr, etc) are doing while you’re away. Depending on the program you could also tell it to download something, but that’s all still happening on your laptop. Your phone is just the middle man.
The app points back to always on servers you have setup to automatically download media on their own.
It wont do anything for you if you fire up a torrent client and go download media manually.
Dang I didn’t even consider this as a thing to look for and now it’s gone
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 :(
Anyone have an iOS app recommendation?
I use Ruddarr. Not bad, but it’s no LunaSea.
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.
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. :/
One is allowed to fork it and release it by themselves, I suppose?
