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@ -12,6 +12,18 @@ it does this is by excluding dark patterns like infinite scrolling and
putting obstacles in place to minimize the amount of time the person spends
taking unhealthy actions that are otherwise unavoidable.
## 2024-02-07 Notice: indefinite hiatus
Hello! Thank you for your interest in Resin. This project means a lot to me--I learned a lot in the process of making it, and I got to meet a lot of cool people in the process.
I made this project way back when I was in high school as a part of a program they were doing to get students working on interesting projects outside of the classroom. As a result I had a horrifying amount of time to work on this project--time I did not have once I got to university, unfortunately.
In the time since I've become less interested in working with React Native in my personal projects. There were a number of structural decisions I made at the time that are currently eating away at any progress I've attempted to make in the years since (for example, this project is on a VERY old version of Expo, lots of the stuff I was using at the time has since been deprecated, not to mention it seems to octuple the build size for no good reason). I imagine continuing work on this project for me personally would mean taking the designs and reimplementing them with a totally new architecture. Maybe that'll happen someday, but my interest in building a Pixelfed client has waned a bit since. There's a few good ones on the market now.
Resin is lowercase d done. All the key features worked when I set it down, but the Pixelfed API was very unstable at that point, and I suspect things have changed quite a bit since. There was a really good reason nobody was trying to build a Pixelfed client, I realize now!
Eventually I expect to do a full post-mortem on this project to discuss how my thoughts on the idea of ethical anti design have changed over the years.
## Goal
The goal of this project is to create a model for what social media could look