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
It doesn't matter a damn if you say "Well we wont do that" because you can't guarentee you wont be hacked, or enforced by law, and the user wouldn't be any wiser. You are focussed on features and functionality, which is fine, but F-Droid are focused on freedoms. Don't assume they have the same mission as you. As a paranoid person I can build and host my own maps if I use Navit, without having to rebuild anything.
@Baggypants @fdroidorg Please try to do it for OM and share your experience with others.
@organicmaps @fdroidorg You know you can fork F-Droid? It's open source. You can mirror their build server and create a repo, build all the apps F-Droid do and in doing so reemove any or all anti-features you care to. If you did this you might understand what a fucking stupid idea yours is to ask me to rebuild your app. If I did that it wouldn't be "Organic Maps". I'd need to distribute it under a different appid and change the name to avoid a trademark dispute.
@Baggypants @fdroidorg it is inappropriate to confuse our users by wrong labeling or by hiding OM in search in any third party repositories. We got questions and reports from our users, not someone else. And instead of focusing on the development, we should react.