The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding"

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a four-year-old app store that’s still beta with best I can tell 33 apps on it.

  I’m kind of impressed you’ve managed to get the amount of donations you have.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They never reached beta. “Currently in alpha.”

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oi

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  • MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah this. You’re telling me this isn’t just an OSS project by some mel in their basement?

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I have no qualms with them being a small project. We all started somewhere. I also don’t have any qualms with their mission to make a secure app store.

      It just doesn’t matter if they’re more secure than Aurora or F-droid, if there’s not more than one app on there, I’d consider running. And getting funding without usage seems to be a long-term fool’s errand.

      They need to become the default app store on something, and to do that they’ll likely need to get a lot more apps on there.

      They could probably take some of that funding and, by their way into places.

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• autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Great, Accrescent promote software which fails to include a libre software license text, file like GPL, software we do not control, anti-libre software, BAD!

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• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ever since F-Droid introduced reproducible builds, there isn’t really a reason for Accrescent existance anymore. And there is Obtainium for everything else.

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