Hey F-Droid,
I’m looking to be able to filter all apps from the store based on a user-set “time since last update”.
I don’t think this is presently possible, so this is a humble feature request for the client.
Heres the ideal functionality:
A setting, in vicinity of the “antifeatures” tab, would open a small dialogue to input the number of days since the last update of an app. Days for specificity, if any app updated within the past 5 years is okay, 5×365.25=1,826.
F-Droid Client already can tell you the time since the last update for each app.
Why this would be useful:
Deprecated apps both often do not function and can be security risks. I understand there’re apps that haven’t been updated in 10 years and still may work, but with successive Android versions, many flat out don’t. If theres no development behind a FOSS app, theres likely a modern alternative or fork that is preferable. So hiding those apps from the client’s categories and search would make exploring F-Droid’s catalog less tedious.
Thanks!
“Basically, instead of serving the users the full list of all the versions of all the apps, we give them only the latest three versions for each app,”
Interesting. The unshown-archive thus may remove versions of an app to the 4th latest, but not the latest version of an app released 10 years ago.
What I’m looking for is mere user comfort, and the option to exlcude oneself to using software with active communities, but I do think that’d be a valuable capacity.
Actually… does F-Droid support search operators?
That’d be a much cleaner solution than a flat setting.
