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  • Zak@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 months ago

    What issues? F-droid seems to be going strong as fast as I can tell.

    A single package not getting frequent updates could mean that package isn’t being actively developed, but sometimes it just means there’s no need five updates.

      • Zak@lemmy.world
        71·
        6 months ago

        That kind of drama comes up in projects every now and then. If the project’s fundamentals are solid, either some people leave and the project continues, or the project gets forked and the new one becomes dominant.

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
        7·
        6 months ago

        There was a post about this a month ago. The tldr is that one of the maintainers is arrogant and controlling so a bunch of other people quit. It wasn’t out of the blue either, it’s been coming for a long time. There are alternative android store options, so its not too much of a big deal

          • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
            6·
            6 months ago

            I’d wait for a bit and see how things turn out. Sometimes there is internet drama in some of the projects. And it seems justified in this case. But it’s still internet drama. We have to hope in the end the toxic or incompetent people go away and it’s not everyone else who has to leave and the project becomes abandoned. But as of now I don’t think there are any immediate consequences for you as a user. I mean you’ve trusted the same people for years and this seems to also have gone on for years. The only difference is, now we know. If there was a viable alternative, I’d switch for ethical reasons… To not support those people. But I don’t think there is a good alternative for me. And secondly I don’t think I know enough to judge people and a story with many details and things that had happened, based off of 2 short texts on the issue tracker.

            • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              101·
              6 months ago

              Edit: sorry, as the guy below stated, this is not an alternative just a new coat of paint

              I’ve been using droid-ify for a bit now and quite like it

            • RovingFox@infosec.pub
              52·
              6 months ago

              I recommend using Obtainium. It is not a store by himself but it is compatible with a lot of stores including github.

              • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
                7·
                6 months ago

                Yeah, I also thought about Obtanium. Mind those are two different approaches. F-Droid builds things from source, removes trackers and invading libraries, sometimes patches something and there are maintainers who have an independent look at things. Obtanium just fetches what the original developers uploaded to Github and installs it on your device. For the better or worse.

              • Atemu@lemmy.ml
                24·
                6 months ago

                Github isn’t a “store”. It’s just upstream repos where the owner can upload any artifact they like.

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.ml
    2·
    6 months ago

    You can find older software on F-Droid which is not updated for several reasons. One reason can be that the compiling of newer versions of the software didn’t work on the F-Droid compile setup. And I’ve read that, if uploading of newer versions is omitted for some reason, F-Droid leaves older versions of software in their repository because there are people with older Android smart phones that cannot run newer versions, and even when there would be security issues, these users are free to take the risk and use the software.

    Best to ask your question on the F-Droid forum, where you can also search for answers without creating an account and where some F-Droid devs may answer : https://forum.f-droid.org/