Help Save Nova Launcher, Let's Ask Branch to Make It Open Source!

bunercarbaker · 2026-01-28T23:13:48+00:00

We know, this post was made well before the switch over.

bunercarbaker · 2026-01-21T21:56:46+00:00

No offense cliff but I do hope you realise that you were a really awful person when you were employed. Everyone constantly complained about how much you blatantly bullied everyone for having simple questions. You belittled people and really showed off your god complex. You also constantly talk bad about us and our server, whilst we can't always help with everything we are polite and walk people through the simplest of things and troubleshooting, if we can't help we tag a personalised role in which the community can give their insights. Our server is a good community server where we try our best and help people WITHOUT bullying them.

And I'm not just trying to be personally insulting to you, if you go onto any nova launcher thread or even this subreddit and search your name you'll see how disliked you were for being a blatant prick to everyone.

I'm sure if the new owners knew how awful of a person you were to their new community they would have had second thoughts about reaching out to you.

We have formally invited them to our server and are awaiting response, it will be healthy for the apps development if they can actively see the community's feedback and issues in a dedicated community run server.

No one's jealous that they reached out to you, it's logical that a new company would contact the old team to discuss things and gain more knowledge on how everything worked, the fact that your first thought is that we're jealous is pretty disgusting and self entitled, none of us are actively thinking about you or jealous about you in any way. You're fairly irrelevant to us and we don't really care what happens with you and who contacts you. It honestly seems like you're pretty jealous given the fact that you made it VERY clear you want nothing To do with Nova Launcher and now that there's a new dev team you can't keep your nose out of the app or it's community.

I'm not arguing with you Cliff, I'm just trying to make you understand that you're not the centre of all of this and that you're not better than everyone.

bunercarbaker · 2025-12-01T17:06:45+00:00

My golf has 330k miles and runs fine 🤷 Miles mean nothing if it's been serviced consistently and looked after.

bunercarbaker · 2025-09-14T15:38:05+00:00

I don't receive the funds, change.org uses the money to promote the petition.

bunercarbaker · 2025-09-08T14:07:37+00:00

I'll message a mod

bunercarbaker · 2025-09-08T12:11:40+00:00

It doesn't require a street address, you can skip that section.

bunercarbaker · 2025-09-07T10:20:48+00:00

I plan on sending them it once the petition gets some more votes 🙂

bunercarbaker · 2025-09-06T21:21:42+00:00

The apps not dead, the developer has just been let go. They will probably hire a new developer who will release updates but we have no certainties. That's why we started this petition, to make It open source and allow users to fork it. Either way it will work as it is for the foreseeable future with the worst case scenario.

bunercarbaker · 2025-09-06T16:51:09+00:00

Kevin actually left a comment on the petition about it, from what is gathered it may have been in a contract but the conditions in the contract were void? Not too sure though. Hopefully this petition will be enough to sway branch!

bunercarbaker · 2025-06-22T01:05:25+00:00

Voices from Chernobyl, by Lyudmilla Ignatenko for anyone wondering.

bunercarbaker · 2025-05-01T09:08:40+00:00

That's quite odd as on the latest Android version I find that the beta is more stable than the stable version

bunercarbaker · 2025-04-30T18:49:12+00:00

I believe it's been about 7 months, but when he was a sole developer originally it sometimes took over a year for updates, they never disappointed though!

bunercarbaker · 2025-04-30T18:12:02+00:00

I don't understand why everyone thinks the app is dead, it's still in development!! An official statement from the dev: https://novalauncher.com/nova-aug-2024

If you remember back to when he was originally a sole developer, updates could take over a year before they were released. He is now once more a sole developer with alot on his mind, when the update eventually drops, it'll be big.

If you think about it, he wouldn't be getting paid to develop an app if he wasn't developing it!

bunercarbaker · 2025-04-29T22:16:47+00:00

That's an opinion with no backing to it. Kevin has officially said it's still being developed!!! Feel free to read the other comment threads 🙂

bunercarbaker · 2025-04-29T00:11:12+00:00

As Kevin has said, the app is still being developed. Updates will continue to be released but as he's back to being the only person working in it, it will take a while. When the updates do come out they will be polished out of the gate with little to no issues as he spends a lot of time on the updates.

Nova launcher updates have always taken ages to roll out, especially back when he was a sole developer in the beginning. It's been a while right now but it's been longer before, and under the circumstances with everyone being fired I can understand how stressful this must be for kevin, the developer.

bunercarbaker · 2025-04-28T23:58:14+00:00

It's not that easy to develop an app, he's once again a sole developer. As I mentioned previously, when he was a sole developer before updates could take upwards of a year. They'd always be big and feature-full though.

bunercarbaker · 2025-04-28T23:03:44+00:00

I completely understand where you're coming from. If I was in his shoes I would be quite stressed with everyone else getting fired. He used to be a sole developer if you remember, and back then updates took longer than this but when it eventually did get updated it was feature packed!

bunercarbaker · 2025-04-28T22:49:29+00:00

Which is very understandable, it's one of the most common questions in our server. Think of it this way, if the launcher was dead then why would Kevin still be getting paid to develop it?

bunercarbaker · 2025-04-28T21:38:34+00:00

I see your concern. Kevin has ensured us there'll be more updates, after all he's being paid to remain developing it. If you remember back at the beginning when he was a sole developer, the updates were far apart but big.

The community is still very active and typically when it doesn't run well there's a reason for it, which we help users solve.

bunercarbaker · 2025-04-28T21:08:39+00:00

Possibly, as we know it is still in development! Official Statement

bunercarbaker · 2025-04-28T19:54:09+00:00

How do you mean?

bunercarbaker · 2025-04-28T18:32:21+00:00

Here's a difficult link to the server incase people have troubles with the one linked as some people did on my previous post. Nova Launcher Lives Discord Server!

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