Try making your agent autonomously publish an app to Google Play or F-Droid

Bro blindly pushing to Zapstore 😂 So cool. It works! View quoted note →

Designing a NIP for age verification so you can use Zapstore in California. 😂😂

I didn't know Stockholm syndrome existed for mobile devices 😂 View quoted note →

PSA if you see duplicated apps in Zapstore, or apps signed by Zapstore that shouldn't, please go to profile screen > Clear local storage View quoted note →

Zapstore relay is back up again! Post-mortem: A bug in the indexer background process replaced 8 self-published apps with indexed ones (signed by Zapstore indexer). Main symptom for users was seeing duplicates of these apps. Backups were there but faulty so the recovery was difficult and partial. 5 were successfully recovered and 3 were not (Primal by @npub1kzgf...ylue and Amber and Citrine by @greenart7c3 ). Users please go to your profile screen > "Clear local storage" if you see double entries of some apps! We are working on a feature in the next release to repair these issues without you having to delete the cache. Backups, as well as the original indexer bug, were fixed. View quoted note →

I'll explain: - I'm switching off the relay to prevent bad data from spreading to clients which will cache it - We are working on ways to bust these cache entries in the mobile app but that's not ready yet (next release though) - If I leave the relay on, I will get an avalanche of support requests I can't handle by myself - I'm also the only guy doing devops, which really is a full-time job in itself, and I have an appointment now so I'll take care of it when that's done. At least 2-3 more hours tl;dr: making sure all apps are always up to date is hard. View quoted note →

We just had a data issue in our indexer, it's possible I have to turn the relay off for a few hours. Investigating. Apologize in advance.

We have reached out to Keep Android Open to co-sign the letter:

An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution

After a week, received no response. I read somewhere that they require a Wikipedia page (?) to get listed. But we will add some form of banner to our app and website. (1) Anyone here with a Wikipedia account to create a Zapstore entry? (2) Anyone here with a contact at Keep Android Open? I was happy to see a good soul added Zapstore on here:

List of Android app stores - Wikipedia

If Google does not change its stance before September, assume some apps won't work on Google-controlled devices. For those using Zapstore on the Guulag, we will attempt to identify apps such that users can know/filter beforehand. At the same time, we will take the opportunity for a marketing campaign emphasizing: "Google owns your device and is limiting your options. If you want to fully unlock all apps, use @GrapheneOS or other alternative ROM." Hoping to leverage this insanity against their control. View quoted note →