Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we’re reaching out to find out what’s going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there’s https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/ but it’s a few versions behind. We’ll post updates here.
If they run their own F-Droid repo or support F-Droid directly, updates could arrive faster.
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updates could arrive faster
It is because of the part I reference. It seems it is mostly outdated a big part of the time in comparison with Goolag Play release.
UPDATE, seems like the app will be back shortly:
It got restored already.
Also, could you post Nitter links instead of Twitter directly?.
I think that could be better for opt-in to privacy and freedom by pointing first to the good link and then let the use choose if they prefer check the bad link but always the good first.
I think I will adopt this mindset when sharing my videos :)
I was actually thinking “should I post a twitter link…”, but since I forgot about Nitter at that moment, I decided to post it. Will change to Nitter next time!
This is the only issue I can find on their github: https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/2737
I’m asking them to host their own f-droid repo, would be a really good idea.
But it’s in official f-droid. Is it too out of date that you’re asking for a custom repo? If using a custom repo, I’d hope they keep the f-droid policy though, removing all google and proprietary stuff…
Love to hear what their excuse is.
“The big social media companies paid us to do it”
I saw it mentioned that f-droid version won’t be able to do notifications. Anybody know regarding that?
You get notifications, but there is some sort of difference yes. Maybe it uses a more powerhungry way of fetching/pushing notifications?
yeah it might have to resort to polling
I wonder if anybody at google realizes that removing element doesn’t block the content because there are other matrix apps available in the store…
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Did they? I saw fluffychat but I didn’t check further. I wonder what is different about this particular app then.
