whilst a clock app doesn't need frequent updates, I font love to see that chronos las commit was two years ago... anyone got a good alternative to recommend?

EDIT: Thank you for your responses. I will likely be keeping BlackHawky/Clock. It is on IzzyOnDroid as well as F-Droid, with recent/active development. It's UI and config options are nice. But most importantly, to me, its got timer and alarm tiles for the quick settings.

I have looked into Fossify Clock, and whilst a clock app doesn't really need active development, it being Beta and the last update being nine months old isn't my favourite combination. Beyond that, it doesn't come with quick settings tiles.

ClockYou on IzzyOnDroid and F-Droid. It's good looking, and has active development with an IMO reasonable AI policy. It does however not come with quick settings tiles either.

Yes! Give me boring UI please. I don't want rounded corners or modern crap. I'm annoyed by the new Firefox UI.

Even when it's really just about the UI but sometimes I feel like stuff gets more bloated when it's "modern".

what an awesome app

They work as intended but aren't modern.

The lack of a dogshit "modern" UI makes them even better. I don't need a loading screen morphing into different rounded polygons like I'm a toddler having keys waggled in front of my face for three seconds of loading.

1. Pixel Weather -> Weather Master
2. Google Clock -> Chrono
3. Google Chrome -> Solipsism Browser
4. Quickshare -> LocalSend
5. Gboard -> Heliboard
6. Google Keep -> NotallyX
7. Google Tasks -> Tasks.org
8. Google Photos -> Lavender Photos
9. Google Maps -> OsmAnd
10. Gmail -> Thunderbird
11. Google Play Store -> Aurora Store

Interesting choice of browser. Solipsism. I'm not interested in the webview variant, so I installed their Antares engine which is based on Servo. Tried it a little bit, but the browser keeps crashing with Antares activated. I'll check again when it's more stable.

No fossify apps or f-droid?

I would be very happy with a WhatsApp-esque 'scan this QR code and be done'

There is a QR login feature in the Matrix spec, but far from every client/server supports it. IIRC it works in reverse, where the logged-in session shows the QR code. I'm actually in favor of this choice, as it means the user shouldn't need to specify the homeserver address on the new client. I believe this doesn't transfer your private key, though, meaning you would still have to enter your recovery key, recovery passphrase or go through the emoji thing. I could be wrong about any of this, it's been a long time since I've last tried the QR login.

To me it feels like there's a lot more friction than with WhatsApp or Signal, but to be frankly honest, I don't really know how to solve the problem either.

Edit: thx for the detailed response :)

What would be your ideal login process then? Every E2E Messenger I know (even WhatsApp) does similar things. (New Session -> QR Code, Lost device -> Restore Backup or Reset key)

It's really not difficult at all, best case you scan a fucking QR code, otherwise the fallback is just that you verify that the emojis shown on both devices are the same.
Takes 5 seconds..

how was it hard to set up the client?? You sign in like any other service..

Yea, that was my concern, too, which is why i was hopeful Collabora was farther along. And I'm pretty sure cryptpad is just repackaged onlyoffice.

Yea. My users want to be able go from desktop to mobile and do document collab on either device, like they're used to with Google docs

Tried and it’s just not performant enough yet. Similar to libre. Multiple documents kills it. And OnlyOffice has too many sketchy Russian red flags for our org to trust it. Hopefully Eurooffice becomes viable sooner rather than later.

Is online a hard requirement?

Has anyone successfully switched to collabora online as their full-time cloud office suite?

I'm knee deep in switching away from Microsoft and deciding between collabora and onlyoffice.

Glad you liked it!

As a person who just switched to it (I've been daily driving it on my phone/PC for the past couple weeks) I'm also really enjoying it. The devs are very active, definitely worth following their space.

It's interesting how we supply details (such confident ones!) when we don't have the full story.

Our Internet need to define outcomes as "success" or "failure" tends to override the curiosity about the actual events.

It sounds like the project had some varying outcomes, and then just fizzled due to lack of energy.

thank you, you should try it again, open settings (top right corner), click on the second option "Keywords".

i didn't want to make the onboarding screen more complicated, that is why is slightly more hidden in the settings.

You mention F-Droid but then only link Play Store?

https://f-droid.org/packages/si.jakobkreft.aftergleam

How do I add by keyword?

I installed the app, opened it, looked for "vegan", couldn't find it, and uninstalled the app.

You have a remarkably good UX, except for this. If there's a way to subscribe by keyword, I think that option should be presented after fresh install (when it asks for subjects and presents a list)

Veganism spans so many fields that it works better as a keyword than a section. Add “vegan”, “plant-based” or something as keywords, and matching papers come first from every field the app covers: climate, public health, biology, law and more. I looked into it, and PhilArchive should be possible to add, so I’ll look into adding a Philosophy field.

Thanks, good suggestion! I looked into it and it should be quite easy to add. IACR ePrint has an open feed with abstracts and categories, and the metadata is free to use, so it fits the app.

Could you please add https://eprint.iacr.org/ for cryptography?