[Android Apps and Games] m0d:
This is the problem. You are celebrating achievement of adding 300+ apps, when the underlying framework cannot handle the current load properly.

And yes, it is a miracle it has worked so far, but that is not something to be proud of.

It seems that nobody in fdroid has technical expertise or skills. They just plug in what is needed to add more apps and be done with it.

Fairemail is stable. But code is code. Bugs always will emerge whether it be due to fairemail code or android. Android has so many bugs still not fixed, check their issues site.

You should talk to the people in charge of fdroid. There should be people scrumming about infrastructure. And not MORE people to help.

Adding more apps is useless at the moment, because more of the same issues will rise and be more noticeable.

Exception handling, as is now the case should be handled swiftly, somehow.

Fdroid development needs a discussion about how to handle this. As playstore has the ability to pull an apk when it is buggy, so does github.

Why not fdroid?

Commenting on how app is stable does not help. I this case it might be a mistake, next time it may be android the culprit. So blame who you will, but again from a technical standpoint fdroid needs to be able to handle apks with bugs to be pulled and replaced asap in certain conditions.

Also, fdroid collaborators are happy adding more apps to suit their needs, even though the framework is buggy, and like you said a miracle that worls until now.

So apps should not be added, until other apps are removed or infrastructure improved.

Also, about regex and tagging betas. It was possible to determine beta builds using git/pull/whatever but again fdroid did not want to make exceptions or put the time in figuring out how, instead wants the dev to make changes.

so because of lazy way now that is not possible.

Fdroid is an amazing concept. But that is all. fdroid continuing to add apps when it cannot handle current load is a joke. And you are celebrating it?

Just because there are photos of people with their whole family including wife and children and pets on a motorbike, does not make it cool to try it at home - https://twitter.com/rishadcooper/status/1166931979138260994

Fdroid needs a rethink. And focus on the quality of delivery.

Having 2000-4000 apps is good and all, but how many are abandoned? Out of date, and not working a latest android versions?

How many have no downloads?

Fdroid needs to take a look at a lot of aspects. Having MORE users added to the mess will not clean it up, just add more mess.

Also, fdroid has no innovation. Why not think of making it possible for devs signature to work as well. Not impossible, might not be simple.

fdroid is a hobby that works, miraculously as you say, for fdroid.

It is not a

serious

endevour.

That is the problem. Thinking about adding more apps, without having the ability to handle exceptions, different tagging schemes, is why fdroid is lacking.

Edit:

That is what I was looking for earlier but could not find.

If Fdroid wants devs to help more they should really focus on this. As many devs already compile themselves, which can take off some load to fdroid system.

Also, can push more devs to do so as well, instead of relying on fdroid.