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
And that unwanted features in OM are? Hey @fdroidorg is it intentional?
@wariat @organicmaps @fdroidorg
"Tethered Network Services - This Anti-Feature is applied to apps that depend entirely on a service which is impossible (or not easy) to replace. Replacement requires changes to the app or service."
Quite ridiculous to hide apps with that by default, if you ask me.
@zilti @wariat @fdroidorg exactly, that’s the point. Generating maps data is a very complex and expensive process, map data format is constantly updated and is tightly bound now to every new OM app version. So it is definitely not easy to replace, and doesn’t make any sense.
@organicmaps @zilti@gts.lyrion.ch @wariat As explained, this was a consequence of the already deployed clients settings. It was either "hide some apps, but show a banner" or "mess everybody's AF client settings". The former was considered a less bad workflow.
@fdroidorg
Honestly, no, the "less bad" would have been to **inform the user** with some banners about such weird change. This is called "transparency" in my book, and transparency = respecting users. Hiding such essential app because part of it "cannot be replaced easily" is unacceptable to say the least.
That said, your documentation is so poorly written that after reading all I could find, still don't know what "other" category in the anti-feature list is!
@zilti
Yes. I'm looking at categories there, and IMO if any should be disabled by default probably not this one.