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Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's f-droid.org/en/packages/im but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.

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Maybe a good idea to push the newest versions to f-droid at the same time as you push them to play store in the future?

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That's not how the official F-Droid repository works. Developers don't release their apps through it. The way it works is the F-Droid packagers choose apps to package and are responsible for keeping them updated. They could make their own F-Droid repository to do it themselves.

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The issue with that is F-Droid handles it quite poorly and confuses users since the app releases signed with different signatures are incompatible. Perhaps F-Droid should add an app id prefix when using their own signing keys but they aren't doing that. It's a bit of a mess.

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Huh thanks for clearing that up, didn't know it worked that way. It seems that F-droid needs some improvement considering how much it is quickly becoming critical FOSS infrastructure.

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