F-Droid Basic 2.0 alpha released
Over the past year, we have been busy to modernize our app. The work supported by the NGI Mobifree has progressed nicely and we are now at a point where we are releasing the first alpha version and ask the community for feedback and testing. Note that for now this release is only for F-Droid Basic as the full version isn’t ready, yet.
https://f-droid.org/en/2026/01/24/fdroid-basic-2.0-alpha.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.zip
"Basic"? Is there going to be a paid/pro version or something?
The app description explains it:
It's a more minimal app with less features. It's released on there first so they can ask for feedback while maintaining all the existing functionality on the full app.
I see where this comes from, but it's funny because F-Droid is the very last place where I expect this to happen. Right after hell freezes over. Imagine them listing their own app with an anti-feature from their list: https://f-droid.org/docs/Anti-Features/