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Unfortunately that would lead to many great apps not getting proper attention. Things such as a downloads counter would simply promote the highest rated ones, p
by spookie 2y ago
Unfortunately that would lead to many great apps not getting proper attention. Things such as a downloads counter would simply promote the highest rated ones, preventing you from even considering newer alternatives.
I would prefer to have more options to filter by time of release. Such as past month, past 6 months, and past year.
That would filter out unmaintained apps altogether, even though there are many that still work well years after release.
Another one would be search operators, or simply a better string matching algorithm, as I keep searching for apps that I know the name of, but make some typo, and they don't appear. Wonder what that is about.
- mystified5016 2y agoAll I have to do to out-compete your app on f-droid is to update more often than you, even if I make no actual changes. Anytime anyone in your target category updates, you push out a version bump and you're on top of the list. Bonus points if you start your app name with AA0 so it's always at the top of both available sort orders. "Recently updated" is a bad metric that does not help users. By offering no other sort options, and sufficiently motivated person can trivially dominate any category in the repo. A recently updated app is not better than a less frequently updated one just by merit of a higher version number.
- sedawk 2y agoPretty sure I'm not touching any app that starts with AA0* (esp. if that name isn't relevant to app's functionality in some way)! But I get the point you are making, on how current system can be gamed with just app-naming and frequent (meaningless) updates to the app :-(