• uzi@lemmy.ca
    3·
    11 months ago

    The whole Simple apps suite should be removed because they are never going to get another update again in the F-Droid repository.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
      1·
      11 months ago

      Why?

      If it ain’t broke, why does it need an update?

      I have apps that are 10 years old and work fine. This “continual update” thing is just so weird.

      I have 20 year old apps on Windows that still work just fine.

      Some of my Android apps’ newer versions have issues that I don’t care for, so I run the older version (e.g. Foldersync, Tasks.org).

      The last version of SMT apps before the buyout should work indefinitely…they are simple after all.

      • jarfil@beehaw.org
        0·
        11 months ago

        The SMT apps after the buyout, are not necessarily bad either, it’s up to the new owners whether they want to keep a FOSS version as advertisement, or not.

        • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
          0·
          11 months ago

          Aren’t there outside contributors? How can they relicense it without their permission?

          • SigHunter@feddit.de
            1·
            11 months ago

            they don’t care and as long as no court ruled, they do what they want, which will probably work out for them

    • limitedduck@awful.systems
      1·
      11 months ago

      Simple Calendar Pro got an update in October, that’s not too far back

      Edit: Just saw the news of the purchase was from Dec.

    • brie@beehaw.orgOP
      1·
      11 months ago

      F-Droid doesn’t usually remove apps that aren’t maintained, as far as I can tell. There are apps that haven’t been updated in over a decade (Quill). Since F-Droid sorts by recency of release, they tend to just sink to the bottom of searches anyway.

      • brie@beehaw.orgOP
        1·
        11 months ago

        Their point regarding old and unmaintained apps seems a bit silly. Getting the same old and unmaintained app from the app’s website isn’t going to make it any safer. You’re still going to need to switch to a different app/fork to get updates.

    • chameleon@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      Everything was forked and should eventually end up on F-Droid, but most things haven’t had a release yet. My understanding is that they’re hoping to do everything right immediately, including having proper new branding and all the shared functionality from Simple Thank You.

      The F-Droid versions of SMT apps are perfectly safe and shouldn’t be going anywhere. (But if you have Google Play versions, I wouldn’t trust those anymore, those are owned by ZipoApps now.)