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.
@fdroidorg @organicmaps I'm not seeing tethered net as a separate option in the anti features setting, and organic maps only shows up when I allow "others", which is slightly concerning. I'm using fdroid basic 1.20.
@haskman @fdroidorg @organicmaps
https://f-droid.org/2024/07/25/twif.html
>The new added TetheredNet is counted as Other Anti-features which is disabled by default.
Same happened to me with Wikipedia. I had to try and check several options until I realised that it was “Others” in order to find it, and thought “Others? Well, that’s weird”.
Maybe the new “Tethered Network Services” option should be out there below or above the “Non-Free Network Services”, instead of grouped into the ambiguous “Others” group?
@haskman @fdroidorg @organicmaps
Checking “Other Anti-features” feels like “Bring it on, let’s open the gates of Hell”.
@tagomago @haskman @organicmaps Repositories can add their own AFs, and "Other" is designed for them, whatever it is added in the future. F-Droid Client can't predict the future, hence this umbrella "AF" will contain them all.
@fdroidorg @haskman @organicmaps
I see. Given this newly devised anti-feature category, are you planning to display it on the list of categories, along with the other twelve, on the next F-Droid release? I feel people would be interested in allowing it, while keeping “Other Anti-features” unchecked...
@haskman @fdroidorg @organicmaps same here as well. Those flags are not clear.