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Comment by rerdavies | Hacker News Reader

Presumably, this app, by Futo: https://grayjay.app/#sources

they incorrectly (malicious?) claim "available on fdroid" and point to a way to add their custom repository.

that's not cool. i would much prefer, since they are not two kids in a college dorm, they worked with fdroid to get properly vetted and included.

Having custom f-droid repositories isn't that unusual or necessarily malicious. For example the microG project has its own f-droid repo. iirc there's some overhead with getting something into f-droid since they have their own build process, versus just uploading an APK, which might be why they chose that.

https://microg.org/download.html

Just look at how out of date NewPipe is in F-Droid, it's maintainer just isn't motivated to get new versions of the app building on F-Droid's servers, leaving end users with a half year out of date client that is unreliable to use.

Not sure what you mean, 0.27.0 was released on f-droid last week, same as the latest github tag:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/

Scroll down the page please and note the prior F-Droid release was Version 0.25.2 (994) - Added on Aug 10, 2023

All of the v26 releases are missing. F-Droid's maintainers just did not build or publish these, leaving F-Droid users with a broken app since early December 2023 until 2 weeks ago, basically 5 months of shipping an app that did not consistently work.

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