Ask HN: Why was Materialistic (HN client) removed from Play Store?

Re:Ask HN: Why was Materialistic (HN client) removed from Pl... by daqnal on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:17PM (#32227626)

I believe it is because their app was not updated in 2 years, and was auto delisted from Google Play. https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic/issues/1464

It is still up on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...

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Re:Ask HN: Why was Materialistic (HN client) removed from Pl... by hidden-spyder on Monday July 25, 2022 @11:49PM (#32234039)

Thanks! I didn't think about searching on fdroid.

Why does Google do this? Now I wonder what good apps I can't find due to them not being updated.

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Re:Ask HN: Why was Materialistic (HN client) removed from Pl... by daqnal on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:17AM (#32238573)

My guess is probably both to free space from their servers and to ensure that unknowing users aren't downloading an app that doesn't have somewhat recent security patches.

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