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What happened to Medito? (lemy.lol)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by QuazarOmega@lemy.lol to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
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The Medito app is a (unsurprisingly) meditation/mindfulness app. Sort of the free software alternative to Headspace.
I haven't used it in a long time and was curious to see how it was doing, but I saw this:

  • it's only available on IzzyOnDroid now, I believe it used to be on F-droid at some point (edit: it wasn't)
  • the available release is 2 years old

So I thought, maybe the app was sadly just archived, but no, it's actually still under development, it's just that no releases have been published on GitHub for 2 years (2.0.48 clearly titled "Deprecated"), instead the Play Store releases keep being pushed out as recently as 3 February 2025 (3.2.0).
Oh and the issues tab has been disabled, which seems very shady to me.
So I wonder what the heck went down with this excellent app, it may still be considered "free software", also featuring the best licence (AGPL), but it looks like it has become unfriendly towards the community, I wonder why

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[โ€“] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could add it to F-droid main

[โ€“] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You mean doing it myself? I don't have experience in this unfortunately, but aside from that, the readme says that it can't be built without some keys that they won't provide. I'm also unsure if it would count as a trademark violation to publish it as is without their consent.
Maybe a starting point would be to email them and see what kind of response we get.