Am I the only one who doesn't use automatic updates for apps? I like to read the change logs, both out of mild curiosity, and to know if an app has a "major UI update"

[–] centof@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago (8 children)

No! There are dozens of us! Dozens

But to be real, I hate how automatic updates just assumes the newer version will be better than the current. Enshittification is just as real in apps as in web services. And automatic updates help enable Enshittification by making that assumption. Of course, It's more applicable to the app store or play store than to f-droid.

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Not long ago I watched the fdroid app itself enshittify.
I was testing an update of another app, saw it didn't really work yet, went to roll it back, and the downgrade button was gone. So I tracked down why and found fdroid had removed it. So I went to downgrade the fdroid app and the downgrade button was gone ...
Had to hunt the bare apk and downgrade manually.

I'm still on the old fdroid version procrastinating looking for an alternative.

[–] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What F-droid Version are you using? On the recommended version the downgrade button is still there.

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago

1.18.0 doesn't show that for me, neither does 1.19.0

screenshots

The version update notes said "removed because android doesn't do that anymore" or something like that. It might depend on the android version, which is extra stupid because many roms don't enforce that restriction, and you can mod that restriction out if you have root (which is part of many general root/lsposed modpacks).

I am running A13, but I was running A10 before and that didn't show it either

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