The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding"

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• ninjaturtle@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s unfortunate but at the same time the app store is quite lacking. I want to say its still in test phase but its missing so many basic things to make it functional. No app screenshots that, no app descriptions, not much information at all outside of an install button. Then there is the fact that there isn’t many apps in there to begin with.

  The benefit of this store was to allow both proprietary and open source apps but without any basic descriptions I find it useless. Its more similar to obtainium but without the flexibility.

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  • alecsargent@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I second this

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• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Compared to fdroid, what exactly does acrescent bring to the table?

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  • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Apparently split APKs (yay) and the lack of decentralization (like in snap vs flatpak, nay)

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fuck all.

    It also brings several downsides. The strong focus on security at all costs means there are no third party app repositories, so if a government entity tells them to take an app down, it’s just gone with no repercussions or recourse. Gov tells F-Droid to drop an app and its gone until the dev launches a tor onion repo and then its like nothing happened.

    Play centralized games when centralized prices.

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• ArkyonVeil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ll be honest, I used this store three months ago, and the most polite compliment I can provide is that it “technically works”. It’s extremely barebones in its current state. IE the bare minimum for a functional app store is the install button, and that does function. But that’s pretty much all the thing it has, at least from a user point of view.

  I mean, it’s a shame that its future is in question, but you know… Spilled milk and all.

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• tensor_nightly69@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well that sucks.

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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hosts proprietary apps, no thank you, and does not allow for third party repositories, so if they are told to take down an app, there is no recourse.

  F-Droid FTW

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