Had a good run will miss it if the devs are shutting it down/quitting can’t they pass it on to others ibam pretty sure many will be happy to run it oh well.fdroid has become the gols standard monopoly in safe private foss store that it will be hard to replace if anyone know any better alternative suggest? Also cant they just kick out that ass maintainer ?

  • Zak@lemmy.world
    14·
    8 个月前

    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
        51·
        8 个月前

        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.

    • ANON@lemmy.mlOP
      31·
      8 个月前

      I read somewhere the mainteners and iwner are quitting or something

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
        6·
        8 个月前

        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
            5·
            8 个月前

            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
              91·
              8 个月前

              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
              32·
              8 个月前

              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
                5·
                8 个月前

                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
                14·
                8 个月前

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