Honestly I like it. See no reason to use any other storefront like droidify or whatever.
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Search has also been significantly improved. In addition to app names, it can now search app descriptions,
It didn't do that before? I'm pretty sure it did that before
One feature that has not yet returned is the ability to remove and wipe apps as a response to a panic trigger app like Ripple. We recognize that some users rely on this functionality for privacy and personal safety reasons and understand it is more than a usability feature. However, it requires highly specialized work to maintain, and given the small user base, we felt it should no longer block so many other important improvements.
That sucks balls
What is the usecase for this?
If you are being mugged or phone is stolen, deleting specific apps won't do much.
A government agency looks at parsed stored data, not currently installed apps.
Handing your phone over at a border, they also use data tools, not look at installed app names or something.
The apps still exist on your disk, an extraction tool like Cellebrite can grab them AFAIK.
I am struggling to think of a place where this is genuinely useful as opposed to a restart or Graphene duress code. If they are already in your phone, deleting apps won't do much.
A vulnerable person trying to get out of an abusive relationship.
Looking forward to try out their filters. My personal pipedream is to never have to see another crypto wallet when browsing F-droid. Well, that was the original pipedream, now it includes "AI" crap.
Welp, the new search filters make app search even worse. Now you have to deselect anti-features for each search rather than the way it was before when you could set your preference once and forget it.

Shit like "AI chat" and crypto wallets have their own categories now β so you can just deselect them like anti-features and not have to see them, right? Wrong. Categories are hierarchical, not toggleable, so you just get funneled down into subcategories with no optout.
This screenshot only shows the first half of app categories, sorted alphabetically A-M. Because in their infinite wisdom we now have to wade through 17 game types, and other main categories have been divvied up granularly in the same way.

So overall there is even less chance to sort through the growing mass of apps, and no option to filter out stuff you don't want to see or have no interest in. I get it, there are F-droid devs who are really invested in techbro cult shit, and they think everybody need to share in their dumb kool-aid. It's their app, and they designed it for themselves, not for general users.
Maybe instead of complaining you could bring this up with the F-Droid team and/or create Pull Request to fix it.
Yeah, why reply to a post with relevant first hand experience, right? π Classic "boo, your opinions clash with mine" response.
I'm confused. I downloaded the latest version from the website and still have the old one
If I would have read carefully, I would have seen, that they're rolling it out during the next weeks
Weird, I've had this on F-droid Basic for weeks now. Months? Maybe not, but definitely weeks.
I have F-Droid Basic and just downloaded F-Droid 2.0 and I can't tell what the difference is
Open it. Search for f-droid. Click it. Scroll down, click on versions. Choose version 2.0 . Install it. You will force upgrading to the latest.
So the regular "full fat" version of F-droid is still on v1.23.2 while F-droid Basic is on v2.0.0. Are more people using the basic version or what?
This is excellent news tho, I love F-droid.
I've been using the f-droid basis app since it went into alpha and the 2.0 version is really a good update, at least UI wise.
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