Hi since i reflashed my device this week i download some app from the store but it looks devastating Under “best apps” category appears apps who doesn’t had an update since 3 years (lighthouse) okay maybe this is not crucial but webpirate from 2016 and as a broswer it’s let’s say kinda scary.
Or even better like the store app which is marked as obsolete.
Which makes things even more worse is that you have to extend the view first to see this information.
The way the store operates at this moment (read restriction) is practically useless. Most if not all users use openrepos and chum.
So until it reaches a point where most restrictions are lifted and community stores are only for wild, really experimental stuff any work on it is pointless.
Do you have any data to back this up? I don’t believe that at all.
As an example the SeaPrint share plugin on OpenRepos doesn’t even have as many total downloads (counting duplicates and updates) as SeaPrint in Store has active users.
Sure, there was an influx of new users when the plugin was published, but only something like 10-20% and i honestly think that is because of better visibility, at least more so than people ignoring Store.
i guess for most longterm users it is no problem to know about storeman and uses the alternatives.
But for new users it is a bit strange way to have install an alternative store to be able to install maintained apps.
Iam fine that not all apps are available in store but they should disable old ones…
To promote a broswer from 2016 is quite unprofessional.
Perhaps some are like me: if something is available both on OpenRepos and on the Jolla Store, I prefer to download from the latter so that I can keep the amount of repositories that need to be refreshed when checking for updates to a minimum.
This may be one of the reasons. And the other that there are a lot of ‘plain users’ of SFOS not knowing of OpenRepos or reluctant to install another not officially provided store (whereas aptoide seems to be accepted on their ‘smart phones’?
I do it the other way round and mainly get apps from OpenRepos preferred over Jolla Store if both is available (leading to higher refresh times, yes!).
Same here. I found quite annoying that I need to keep several OR repos just for that one app, so as much as possible, I get them from the Jolla Store, even if that means getting something slightly behind the bleeding-edge version.
On that subject, it would be nice to have a service that ‘consolidates’ all followed OR repos into a single ‘personalized’ one, but would requires additional (cloud) resources, i.e. costs.
Hmm. I always look in the store first, too. QA is done in the store. If the build is really old, I check other sources. But then, I’m on a mission to make sure stuff ends up in the store AND get’s aarch64 builds.
Second the Updated category. Recently updated like in Storeman.
(If I understand things correctly) it’s a single repository with all (non-store) applications. Of course, not many applications are in there yet, but it’s a start.
But this stuff is a bit to match for me. I’m not using a smartphone to handle things using the terminal. For me, as for other “usual users”, it would be great/necessary to have a gui.
Anyway cleaning up the store would be great!! There are some many not working apps!! It’s better to have few working apps than hundreds of not or only 10 % working apps.
on their ‘smart phones’?