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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Thursday, 29 Aug 2024, Week 35

Community News

As a ghost from the troubled Internet past, a blog post about Geddit, A Reddit client without using their API, appeared last week, where the developer tells the story of how Geddit was born.

Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.19.0, bringing a steady stream of improvements for this FOSS chat solution that’s full of features: 1:1 chat, channels, threads, calls, archive search, dev tools integration, markdown, playbooks for processes, webhooks, plugins and more. And here’s the kicker: you can self-host the server!. Yes, it’s not on someone else’s computer (aka the cloud), no, it’s on yours, it’s On-Prem if you want it or in your own cloud. Even more, want the new fancy AI stuff? They’ve got a plugin for that too, so you can connect it to the big corporate controlled AI, or… to your own local AI (see a pattern there?). 😎 Is this the Slack or Teams killer that you’ve been looking for?

Readrops was updated to 2.0-beta01, and at least one user reported some issues on their device. We’ve changed the F-Droid metadata to not pickup beta versions in the future, until the developer deems releases stable. While we could not reproduce the issue on other device, you can read the upstream issue and see if you need to postpone the update.

Removed Apps

12 apps were removed
  • Clipboard Cleaner, An android app for showing and cleaning clipboard and Tasky, A highly intuitive and easy-to-use todo list app were archived at the request of the developer.
  • COVID19 related apps were past their time: Corona Stats, COVID-19 italian monitoring, Covid19 Stat, CovidAt, CovPass, CovPassCheck, free2pass, TousAntiCovid, UK COVID-19 Venue Check-in, USA COVID-19 Tracker

Newly Added Apps

3 apps were newly added
  • Click Switch: A game where you will have to hit the correct button
  • FadCam: Seamless background video recording – ad-free, with customizable options
  • YAM Launcher: A minimalist text-based launcher, with weather

Updated Apps

66 more apps were updated
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