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There is AppImage (https://appimage.org/ https://appimage.org/). I have no affiliation with it whatsoever, but if you're not going to have a verified Snap accou
by conradk 8y ago
There is AppImage (https://appimage.org/ https://appimage.org/). I have no affiliation with it whatsoever, but if you're not going to have a verified Snap account, I think you're better off offering an AppImage from your website. And it seems like some companies are thinking about something like this (https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues/683 https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues/683).
If your Snap account is unverified, there seems to be no way to know who created the snap. It looks like I can create an account with the name of any company and distribute stuff in their name, including malware.
With something like AppImage, your users know that the AppImage is actually coming from you if you host the file on your domain. Then again, AppImage has its own drawbacks. But at least, if Slack put an official AppImage on its homepage, I'd be able to download it. Installing a Slack snap from the account of "Felix Rieseberg" doesn't sound to good to me (https://snapcraft.io/slack https://snapcraft.io/slack). If you dig around, you can see that Felix Rieseberg does work at Slack, but for this big a company, that just looks fishy IMO.
- kyrofa 8y agoVerified accounts are pretty new, I suspect we'll see Slack verified soon.