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F-Droid is cool in theory, but it is largely unmaintaned and understaffed. If you upload a new build it may take weeks to get distributed to users.

• zibzab 5y ago
  If only there was a way to support them... https://f-droid.org/en/contribute/ https://f-droid.org/en/contribute/ https://f-droid.org/en/donate/ https://f-droid.org/en/donate/ https://liberapay.com/F-Droid-Data/ https://liberapay.com/F-Droid-Data/
• ignoramous 5y ago
  Yes, that's because they deeply care about what is allowed in the store. F-Droid had "privacy labels" before Apple did [0]. They do scan/review [1] submitted apps for spyware, to the extent they can with the tools available to them [2]. Often times, F-Droid volunteers go out of their way and help developers publish apps to F-Droid [3]. Besides, in my experience, once you've setup the distribution, F-Droid pretty much auto-builds and auto-publishes the updates forever, until unless the builds fail or their automated review process detects something untoward. I'd say F-Droid is pretty cool in practice too. [0] https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/ https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/ [1] Ex, see this review for an app I submitted: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/8605 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/8605 [2] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/2289 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/2289 [3] Ex, here's F-Droid maintainers attempting to get an open-source app, Outline (a ShadowSocks client), built by Google, distributed on F-Droid: https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/issues/50 https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/issues/50
  • pjmlp 5y ago
    Somehow I think Symbian and Ovi Store had them before both of those, but so is life.
• ihusasmiiu 5y ago
  > If you upload a new build it may take weeks to get distributed to users. Why are you talking about Apple now?