F-DroidMar 14

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live after 2 weeks:

* everyone has a voice to #keepandroidopen install F-Droid everywhere, make it unavoidable
* Basic 2.0-alpha4 animates things
* #NewPipe reminds you of September
* more downloads stats
* more #FLOSS devs using #AI
+ 38 new apps
& 347 updates
- three archived
~ one downgraded

Elephants in rooms, https://f-droid.org/2026/03/13/twif.html

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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Mar 2026, Week 11 F-Droid core The countdown to September lock-down continues. Did you do your part? Did yo...

Show threadFoxMar 14
@fdroidorg the only thing I miss in Basic 2.0 is an ability to manually sync the repos. Is it going to be implemented?
Show threadF-Droid5d ago
@brefox Already available, see repository details screen 😉
Show threadFox
@fdroidorg thank! But wouldn't it be better, if you could pull-to-refresh on Apps tab? I have a lot of repos added and find it difficult and time consuming to dive deep into the settings and update each repository separately.
Mar 31 at 9:57pmWeb
Show threadF-Droid3d ago
@brefox Is autoupdate not working for you?
Show threadFox3d ago
@fdroidorg not the well. I could see repos getting updated in the notification panel, but after that I may not get any updates in Apps tab, but it would be available if you open some app. Also, I like to keep auto updates off, but check for them manually when I want or when there's some CVE has been published for an app.