hope this post wont sink by the threads posts : D

first of all why

I was scrolling through aurora store and wished if i could reply to the ratings so i could help/instruct them.
We have both suitable platforms for discussions and app uploading. The only thing that hinders is the integration. With those features f-droid would be miles ahead of playstore And towards the major question.

how

idonno (notadev) Please comment if you have ideas. Is gitlab/github/codeburg/gitea accounts enough for these kinda discussion?

  • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Very cool idea. There are a lot of decent apps on fdroid where the only way to find out if the app is a good fit is to install it yourself. This would go a long way towards improving that experience.

  • rbn@feddit.chEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I’ve always missed a rating/feedback/comment feature in F-Droid. A lemmy-based solution would be pretty cool.

  • Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Cool idea! THis should be more broadly discussed. After some discussion here, where could we share it with the F-Droid community? Is there a forum or such?

    My five cents: The problem I see is account stuff. You can use F-Droid without an account, and do not want to require an account for ratings. Yet, having no accounts, it is incredibly easy to manipulate votings.

    I would probably prefer a “Git Issue”-like thread for every app, where you have to register. This allows for

    • Deeper conversation, more insightful reviews, instead of “3 starts, UI ugly” (let’s face it, this is not the reason why we use F-Droid)
    • Pointing out code lines in the source code. This could help with bug fixes, malicious stuff, etc.
    • …
  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I do think rating apps or install numbers would be great to better sort apps according to their usefulness. Number of installs/delivered updates are off the table because of how against telemetry the community is.

    Ratings aren’t necessarily useful since almost all apps on F-Droid are quite good at the thing they set out to do. The question is whether it’s what I searched for. The biggest problem are outdated apps, which is pretty natural since life happens.

    Comments are difficult because of spam and other unwanted content being posted. The F-Droid community are all volunteers and they have already enough to do.

  • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    there was a fdroid client that did something similar using mastodon and hashtags but I can’t remember which one it was and if it’s still doing that