Unfortunately that would lead to many great apps not getting proper attention. Things such as a downloads counter would simply promote the highest rated ones, preventing you from even considering newer alternatives.
I would prefer to have more options to filter by time of release. Such as past month, past 6 months, and past year.
That would filter out unmaintained apps altogether, even though there are many that still work well years after release.
Another one would be search operators, or simply a better string matching algorithm, as I keep searching for apps that I know the name of, but make some typo, and they don't appear. Wonder what that is about.
All I have to do to out-compete your app on f-droid is to update more often than you, even if I make no actual changes. Anytime anyone in your target category updates, you push out a version bump and you're on top of the list. Bonus points if you start your app name with AA0 so it's always at the top of both available sort orders.
"Recently updated" is a bad metric that does not help users. By offering no other sort options, and sufficiently motivated person can trivially dominate any category in the repo.
A recently updated app is not better than a less frequently updated one just by merit of a higher version number.
Pretty sure I'm not touching any app that starts with AA0* (esp. if that name isn't relevant to app's functionality in some way)!
But I get the point you are making, on how current system can be gamed with just app-naming and frequent (meaningless) updates to the app :-(
Excuse? This whole thread is about you people making poor assumptions. Sourceforge isn’t an answer on a history test. At best it’s a cautionary tale but it has been followed by and preceded by so many nearly identical ones it’s not really relevant.
Therac-25 is a name every developer should remember. Osborne computers is another. Sourceforge is irrelevant. Nobody cares.
In the second paragraph of the link you posted this is said:
> But in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, conservatives have become hyper fixated on policing pro-Palestinian messages on the app, accusing TikTok of influencing young Americans to “support Hamas” and favoring pro-Palestinian content.
If you follow the link attached to "influencing young Americans", you'll find Palestine isn't mentioned once, but Hamas is.
Of course there's bias everywhere, and we should have by now ways to follows stories to their source automagically by now. But anyhow.
The article and the poll it is based on is wild. Questions like, "do you think all Palistinians are anti-Semitic or just the Hamas terrorists" and similar push poll style nonsense offering limiting answers to slanted questions.
However at least one question is about whether the attacks on Israel...
Can be justified by the grievance of Palestinians
So while most questions force them to pick sides between Hamas and Israel with no option to say they support Palestinians they do get at least one chance to say whether they think the Palestinian people have legitimate grievances (though still only in context of supporting an attack).
And the Intercept article is very clear when they link that they think Palestinian and Hamas support are being intentionally conflated, just as you've tried to do again here.
Farmers already do keep an eye when it will rain before applying fertilisers. So, this is already part of their calculation. Although, yes , this means they will not apply it everyday. Depending on their location this means that a lot of weeks are out of the picture.
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