Yeah, this is a pretty good gauge of what an honest star rating should represent.

Are you sure it wasn’t sociopath? It does take a certain amount of decision-making lacking empathy or remorse.

Just trying to play a little devils advocate. Not saying that its ethical to do it, but if morals/ethics don’t play a part in the decision, it could prove useful. Besides, I’d imagine that its already being extorted pretty heavily if there’s that much competition for sellers, hah.

Yeah, I’d argue that the project can be good and not widely used. Do you think that there are projects with real use case and are great open source software and not widely used because its buried under the *s?

It could be a relatively inexpensive way for niche marketing. Especially if the developer has a payment option with the software. Probably a decent way to get the software out in the open for profitability, no?

Most of the time it’s gplay, if the app is on it… Probably because the developer gets the most traffic through there. Sometimes its days to weeks earlier if its on gplay. Others, github/fdroid is a toss up. Pretty similar

Absolutely. I end up using it in conjunction with gplay and fdroid to see which ones are updated sooner. Very useful.

Thirded. Came from Proton even. It’s been solid for sure!

Use it daily with a couple applications. Namely Thunderbird on Android and Mailbird on Windows.