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.
I would love to see a store category “Updated” where apps are sorted by date of last release.
That’s what I also do, I prefer to get the “official” version from the Store.
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.
Have I got news for you:
(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.
I heard about chum, but had no clue how to use it. At the github page I found a how to: https://github.com/sailfishos-chum/main#how-to-use-these-repositories-users
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.
@atlochowski Thanks for your extreme fast response!!
I installed Chum and the GUI. And it’s working. Thanks a lot so fare.
Do I get it right that all apps from storeman/openrepos will move to chum? Or is there still “need” to have storeman installed.
There is no integration between OpenRepos and Chum at the moment. So if you want to use OpenRepos you need Storeman.
Also, it would be nice if ‘harbour.jolla.com’ got fixed, so at the very least it can be used properly on any SFOS device, this has been broken for a long time and as usual, it seems that no one cares. The ‘burger’ menu pops open and closes instantly, it is not possible to select any menu option.
I reported this on TJC a long time ago, but still not fixed. It if were an APP I would dig in, but it isn’t so I cannot.
got error 404 on this link !
I first try to get apps from jolla store, than storeman and finally chum, in that order.
On chum or openrepos apps are more up to date, better first check there for the latest version.
Btw Jolla this problem is still out there i still can see webpirate under the best apps section, it would be nice if you would finally consider to address the problem.
Thx one of buying customers.
But, if installed from storeman or chum, then you have to be carefull with any SFOS update, there is always a list of apps that must be unistalled before SFOS update… if installed from jolla store, then you do not have this kind o problems … Am I wrong?
You are right in general. But often, necessary updates of apps to work on a new SFOS version are provided first on Storeman or chum and only later in Jolla Store.
So my quick and dirty way since a few update times is:
First backup all user data (photos, music,…) on external drive!
Make the OTA update and follow the instructions on the screen.
Check if new system works fine,
If yes - enjoy
If no - don’t invest more than 2 minutes, reflash, install latest versions of apps.
Unoffical repositories can case problems.
But jeah when you have one single “wrong” installed it can screw the update.
If you have luck sfos-upgrade may can fix this or as said the radical but unfortunately best way reflash everything und hope the backup worked. Not having problems like when they change from nemo to defaultuser…