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For posterity, but also for forks if the repos go down, I have created https://github.com/SimplerMobileTools and downloaded all the original repos, branches, and tags which will soon be uploaded there.

I have already got SM Gallery compiling, so thats a start, and will upload all the repos tomorrow when its not so late.

Note: Any former maintainer of SMT will be added on to SrMT upon request.

EDIT: All forks updated with notice of rationale and link to this discussion.

EDIT2: https://github.com/FossifyOrg is a soft fork created by one of the current maintainers. I will keep the hard fork up just in case.

Terrible news. These apps are really great. Reminds me of what happened to Quick Pick and ES file explorer and u could also add Nova Launcher. More apps assigned to the graveyard. Hopefully they get forked quickly and updated when needed.

Wtf. I paid for the apps to avoid exactly this....

Too many people think the "free" in free software means "without monetary cost". Development costs money. If nobody pays, it gets sold

Incoming, "We don't plan to change anything you love about these apps!"

Narrator: "They were planning to change EVERYTHING you love about these apps."

The death of Quik Pic was when it was sold

I swapped the Simple after that, so this blows fucking ass.

Looks like one of the maintainers/contributors has already setup a fork!

https://github.com/FossifyX

All the code is GPLv3 so it will remain FOSS. There's no need to immediately switch to other apps. You can optionally fork then build the apps for yourself.

Well, that sucks.

Guess I'll just stop updating and keep an eye out for forks that are maintained.

Why? I hate this another loss for us. This year is pain in ass for me.

I guess I don't need a gallery app..

Everyone has a price.

Thankfully I only have them via Obtainium. Flip the "track only" option to on and wait and see. Like someone else said, I'm hopeful there'll be forks for these soon enough. I'm off to fork the repos for myself anyway, just in case.

Damn it. There was a big extension that did this too. The first thing the guys did? implement a credentials stealer.

Damn I actually paid for a few of these apps. What does this mean for purchase on Android?

This is terrible news! I am going to struggle to find a replacement for the gallery app.

I paid for the apps to avois this...

Big F, they had some good apps.

Damn, I recently donated to them, and this is how it turned out.

Terrible to see.

For anyone looking for an alternative to Gallery, Gallery by Iacoblonut looks better, and you can use Amaze to edit images.

Noooooo! I love their gallery app. Guess it's time to turn off auto-update on it.

Thank you for sharing this!

Damn, i will really miss the Gallery app

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Finally, Kissinger is dead — but for the karmic balance, even SMT gets enshittified.

Damn, SMT was great for filling in system tools on custom ROMs, anyone got any good alternative gallery apps with a similar feature set?

Sigh.

Anyone used Etar calendar app? I use Simple Calendar for its ability to export everything to one ICS file. I see Etar can use ICS, but is it a full calendar import/export? Or one event at a time? Related question, is there anything better?