It’s all about self-hosting it
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
(expand for the full list)
- Alibi was updated to
0.5.2 - Amber was updated to
1.3.1 - Aria for Misskey was updated to
0.14.1 - Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to
0.11.0 - Aurora Store was updated to
4.6.0 - Barcode Scanner was updated to
1.24.1 - Blue Square Speedometer was updated to
0.1.6 - Boxcars was updated to
1.3.9 - Calliope mini was updated to
2.0.3 - Capy Reader was updated to
2024.08.1033-dev - Celestia was updated to
1.7.6 - Cirrus was updated to
2.9 - Ciyue was updated to
0.4.3 - Dicio assistant was updated to
1.1 - droidVNC-NG was updated to
2.6.0 - eduVPN was updated to
3.3.0 - EinkBro was updated to
11.14.0 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2224 - Feeder was updated to
2.6.31 - Fennec F-Droid was updated to
129.0.2 - Flexify was updated to
1.1.86 - FTPClient was updated to
2.10.0 - HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated to
3.17.0 - Ichaival was updated to
1.9.0 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.4.5 - InnerTune was updated to
0.5.8 - Interval Timer was updated to
1.1.0 - IVPN – Secure VPN for Privacy was updated to
2.10.10 - Just (Video) Player was updated to
0.168 - KDE Connect was updated to
1.32.1 - LibreTrack was updated to
1.5.1 - LocalSend was updated to
1.15.4 - mpv-android was updated to
2024-08-20-release - Mull was updated to
129.0.2 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20240821 - OONI Probe was updated to
3.8.9 - Open Map was updated to
6.1.20 - Open Sudoku was updated to
4.0.9 - ownCloud was updated to
4.4.0-beta.1 - Petals was updated to
3.28.0 - Phonograph Plus was updated to
1.8.3 - Practice Suite was updated to
2.1.1 - pretixPRINT was updated to
2.19.2-foss - ProtonVPN – Secure and Free VPN was updated to
5.5.68.0 - QuickWeather was updated to
2.7.2 - Quinb: 4 players reaction game was updated to
1.2.5 - RedReader was updated to
1.24 - RustDesk was updated to
1.3.0 - Satunes was updated to
2.1.2 - SaverTuner was updated to
1.1.3 - Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to
2.11.2 - sing-box was updated to
1.9.4 - SocksTun was updated to
2.6 - Suntimes was updated to
0.16.1 - Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to
2.1.1 - Taler Wallet was updated to
0.12.2 - Toadua was updated to
2.3.0 - TriPeaks was updated to
1.1.1 - Träwelldroid was updated to
2.13.2 - Tusky was updated to
26.1 - Unciv was updated to
4.13.0-patch1 - Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to
0.39.3 - Valv was updated to
1.10.1 - Xeonjia: Ice Adventures was updated to
3.0.2 - Xtra was updated to
2.33.5 - Zoysii – Logic game was updated to
2.4.3
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