Comment by figassis
7 months ago
It is important, and I thought it'd be amazing. So then take it seriously. If you need more funding then find a better pricing model. But it is a shame that a project so attractive feels like it's abandoned.
7 months ago
It is important, and I thought it'd be amazing. So then take it seriously. If you need more funding then find a better pricing model. But it is a shame that a project so attractive feels like it's abandoned.
> But it is a shame that a project so attractive feels like it's abandoned.
Can you clarify what makes you say that?
Orion development is very active. Here is Orion's changelog in case you missed it:
https://kagi.com/orion/updates/orion-release-notes.html
I installed it sometime (end of last year/ beginning of this year, can't recall). Was setting it up and imported bookmarks. Then tried to edit them and found out that renaming bookmarks and/or changing links messes up the bookmarks, they don't save/get reset. Some very odd behaviors and I have a hard time believing that they were not picked up by the team or other users. I think setting bookmarks with icon only was also not working. There were other issues and I just did not have the energy to navigate those and my work. So I decided to give it another few years. Using Safari now. But Orion being solid would make me come back.
I also don't want to be overly critical, and I am a paying Kagi user, love it and will eventually try to use the family plan, but maybe I'm just not at the point where I have time to deal with glitchy software anymore.
Is it fair to say that building a browser from scratch is very hard, multi year process, and that one interaction with it half a year ago and encountering some bugs does not mean the project is abandoned?
I use it as a daily driver and many other people do and while there are many issues still (we have over 2000 open issues on oriofeedback.org) Orion has never been better and I encourage you try it again.
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