They received a very big donation over Monero that isn’t included there
A new one or are you referring to the $16k one in August? Obviously the August one would not count towards their November goal.
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How is it more easy to rewrite all the code then to just clone the code and make the 3 changes you want to make?
If you already forked a project, you know what I mean. Understanding the project, structure, code logic, etc.
If the code is not documented well this can take soem time.
But not so long as building everything from scratch.
And often you don’t need to exactly udnerstand evvery line to make additions or fix particular bugs
Did you try forking a project before? I did and it’s really a lot of pain, especially for complex projects.
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I forked/cloned to make additions, but I didn’t fork to replace or compete against a project.
But if its just about security patches that F-Droid didn’t make it should be possible to make them in a fork.
ANd because F-Droid probably isn’t malicously ignoring them, they will merge them anyway, so maintaining a fork isn’t neccessary.
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New Accrescent blog post, the first in a short series detailing the server-side work that’s been ongoing since the last update.
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When will they add a search function and basic information like license, size, permissions
The plan, as I understand it, is to first finish refactoring the server, then add developer-facing features (such as an app publishing API) so that they can open up app submissions, and then they’ll work on user-facing app features.
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Yeah, nowadays users can gather info and disciver apps on different places (github, fdroid, obtainium apps page), so it is much more important to actually expand available apps. Even if it takes a couple years to start offering any additional app information, at least having a catalogue of a couple hundred apps so people can stop installing from fdroid or obtainium+verifiedapps is a huge leap. For GOS users that install accrescent fron GOS appstore, having that many apps available at a single touch without having to tinker with adding to obtainium and verifying, and at the same time the most secure appstore installlatiom method, is a huge win.
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Great to see a post that doesn’t end in something like “we need $10,000 now or the project is dead”
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I think they should work on the front end first, that’s what users want to see, at the moment the app is pretty lame, just a list of apps with barely any description.
They’ve already been working on backend/dev console stuff but working on the app/frontend first would have created more work for the future. There’s already been plenty of bugs that should get smoothed out when they’re backend work is finished.
A better frontend wouldn’t mean more apps, so they’re trying to make the dev process easier. What’s the point in a nice looking app if barely any devs want to put the time into using it. Like getting a solid base to build off of.
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As I said, I don’t think they should work on frontend. There’s a whole bunch of GOS users knowing it is the most secure appstore and we are just waiting to jump on it as soon as Accrescent gets a bump on available apps. That will end up in much more adoption than just putting some frontend improvements to appease people that is not convinced of it yet.
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