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As others have noted, NewPipe lacks a lot of functionality, polish, and just generally breaks far too frequently. I'm in the tech industry so I can deal with th
by chrysoprace 5y ago
As others have noted, NewPipe lacks a lot of functionality, polish, and just generally breaks far too frequently. I'm in the tech industry so I can deal with the app breaking occasionally, but during my stint using it, it was almost every month that it broke. My girlfriend who has some technical knowledge just gave up on it because it was too frustrating that it kept breaking, and not only that, the devs urged users to download from GitHub instead of F-Droid.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoYou have to update it every quarter or so when yt breaks it. Never had any other issues.
- chrysoprace 5y agoI'm glad to hear your experience has been pleasant - ours has been far from it. Imagine telling someone who perhaps doesn't know what an "executible" is, to just allow unknown apps and go to a website and download a different app store (F-Droid), then go to that app store and download a third party app. Then when it breaks, tell them to go to GitHub and download another unknown app because the version on F-Droid gets updated too slowly when they just want to watch a video.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoI go to its page and click a button, then another to confirm. Definitely doable, if you're motivated.
- lolinder 5y ago> the devs urged users to download from GitHub instead of F-Droid. These days they just encourage you to add their repo to F-Droid. I set it up once and it just works now. I get updates as soon as they're available.
- heavyset_go 5y agoIt sometimes breaks because of changes on YouTube's end to prevent people from downloading videos or using 3rd party clients.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago> the devs urged users to download from GitHub instead of F-Droid. F-Droid adds lag to the build+publish process; cutting out the slow middleman is sensible if you want fast fixes.