I was scrolling through aurora store and wished if i could reply to the ratings so i could help/instruct them.
We have both suitable platforms for discussions and app uploading. The only thing that hinders is the integration. With those features f-droid would be miles ahead of playstore And towards the major question.

how

idonno (notadev) Please comment if you have ideas. Is gitlab/github/codeburg/gitea accounts enough for these kinda discussion?

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[–] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Cool idea! THis should be more broadly discussed. After some discussion here, where could we share it with the F-Droid community? Is there a forum or such?

My five cents: The problem I see is account stuff. You can use F-Droid without an account, and do not want to require an account for ratings. Yet, having no accounts, it is incredibly easy to manipulate votings.

I would probably prefer a "Git Issue"-like thread for every app, where you have to register. This allows for

Deeper conversation, more insightful reviews, instead of "3 starts, UI ugly" (let's face it, this is not the reason why we use F-Droid)
Pointing out code lines in the source code. This could help with bug fixes, malicious stuff, etc.
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