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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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how do apps get removed from f-droid? (monero.town)
submitted 1 year ago by shortwavesurfer@monero.town to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
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[–] authed@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They probably should not remove them and instead mark them as outdated

[–] incogtino@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

F-Droid has a setting that allows you to hide apps with anti-features. One of them is 'source code no longer available' but another for 'source code not updated in 2+years' would be great for this

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why not remove them? They take server space to host, and show up in searches when they arent useful.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Archiving and data hoarding purposes

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

They still could be moved to the archive repo

[–] authed@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One reason might be that someone looking to create an app might want to use it as a starting point... It would make them easier to find if they don't remove them from f-droid

[–] iSeth@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to f-droid...

You can submit take-down requests by starting a new issue on our issue tracker. (This requires a gitlab.com account.)

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 1 year ago

That only appears to be if the app violates copyright or by the author. Not because an app is outdated.