Due to "anti-features" introduced unilaterally by some people from FDroid community, it is not possible to find Organic Maps using the search in FDroid client without tinkering with its settings first: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/3347
By default, it is possible to find apps with ads, with tracking, with non-free network services, dependencies and assets, apps without source code and with known vulnerabilities. But it is not possible to find Organic Maps, an open-source app without ads and tracking.
@organicmaps yes, our communication about this change was not ideal.
We tried to cover it in https://f-droid.org/2024/07/25/twif.html and https://f-droid.org/2024/04/04/twif.html, but apparently it wasn't read by everybody (surprise, surprise
Unfortunately, we didn't find any good technical solution to enable the new Anti-Feature automatically (but only for those, who didn't change their AFs manually).
Moreover, this new AF was designed to clearly differentiate, that apps like OM are NOT NonFreeNet, but only TetheredNet.
@piggo @fdroidorg @organicmaps @PhotonQyv@strangeobject.space Its not an anti-feature to you because your in a place of relative comfort, but the inability of someone being able to host their own map data and have the app download from that could be important to, say, people in conflict zones without persistant internet.
@Baggypants @piggo @fdroidorg @PhotonQyv That doesn’t make much sense with OM, because map data format is changed with almost every app update, so generated maps are tightly bound to the specific app version (and may crash otherwise). Generating map data is a very complex, time-consuming, and expensive process.
@organicmaps @fdroidorg I'm not saying you shouldn't do that but you're not thinking from the point of view of the user. It's a restriction they are entitled to know up front, it could be misused to track people with little effort, or disrupt them in the long term.