The results are in from the voting!
We have reached the close of the first (ever?) 'Community favourite' awards.

As a quick recap, we had two categories and many nominations. It looks like people were very hungry to acknowledge the work done on UT.
For the community favourite app we had 15 nominees.

OSM scout server
uWolf
Morph QT6
futify
dekko
Sapot
Keeweb
Podcat
RockWork
OpenStore
Waydroid
LogViewer
CinnyUT
TELEports
uNav

For the community favourite developer we had 13 nominees.

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)
@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf)
@alan_g (Alan Griffiths)
@vlad-nirky (Vlad Nirki)
@Fuseteam (Tobiyo Kuujikai)
@kugiigi (Kugi Eusebio)
@CiberSheep (Joan CiberSheep)
@thevancedgamer (Muhammad)
@peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
@danfro (Daniel Frost)
@jonius (Jonathan Zeidler)
(Brian Douglass)
@mariogrip (Marius Gripsgård)

For the community favourite app:
In second place, with 22% of the votes ... The Openstore
The first place and the winner ... is actually a tie with second place ... with 22% of the votes
TELEports.

For the community favourite developer:
In second place, with 22% of the votes ... @peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
The first place and the winner,
... with 25% of the votes.
@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to all the community for keeping UT up and running.
I will be in touch soon with details on how to get your prize.

Nominations are now open for the UBports Community Awards.
Since this is the first run at having these awards, I thought
its best to keep things a bit simple.
Here are the final two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

Everyone can suggest up to two nominees for each category.
Nominations close on the evening of 1 Dec.
Leave your suggestions below.

For each nomination, indicate the category, nominee and a short paragraph about why you are nominating this person/app.

Prize: A large pizza for each category.

I thought it might be useful to have a list of snaps that run well on UT.
I will slowly populate this list as I try things.
Tested an FP5 focal 24.04

No success
= installed, seems to work, further testing needed
Works in desktop mode, fully functional
CLI tool (so it is convergent-ish)
Convergent(-almost)
My favourites

Issues with snaps on phone:
- No OSK
- Scaling issues
- audio issues

New entries
angelfish
zetsubougames-wandernomore
PokeMMO
GZDoom
Dolphin emulator

Typst
itrue-jellyfin
zellij : requires '''--classic''' (24.04)
midnight-rebooter
gdu
yazi
git-confined
htop
micro : requires '''--classic'''
rsync
curl
ladder
deepseek-r1 (painfully slow)
tldr
Terminal-parrot
nano-strict
clera
ponysay
asciiaquarium
clipboard
fzf
procs

alienshooter
gnome-hitori
local send
evince
blanket :
supertux

keepassxc
alacritty: requires '''--classic'''
vivaldi (24.04)
Chromium (24.04)
Jabref
Inkscape
libreoffice
Deepseek
xournal++
konsole: requires '''--classic'''
sublime-tex (24.04)
pinta
brave
leafpad
micropolis
gimp

clickable
duplicity
magnus
openscad
audacity
audacious
crypton
transmission
LXD
ollama
darktable
cheese
cherrytree

app center
steam
hardware sensor indicator
amberol
kate
minetest
gnome-nibbles
gnome-chess
tuxfishing
supertuxkart
komikku
ubports-installer
opentyrian
alpaca
axolotl
sensor monitor
firefox
cozy
gnome-contacts
gnome-mahjongg
gnome-sudoku
gnome-calculator
gnome-clocks
gnome-weather
emoj
pydoro
frog
tux-paint
ghostty : requires '''--classic'''
opencv-demo-web
mission center
fingerpaint
celluloid
zenity

Could you add a segment to the 'show' where you give an example of how to get things done on UT?

I think many people need to figure out ways to work in UT since it is quite different from android but many of these ideas don't make their way to the 'general UT public'.

For example, there was a discussion about getting uwolf or firefox to sync passwords. This is a great alternative to the non-functioning password manager apps and makes life a lot easier.
Or maybe demo how to use ghostcloud.

I think these 'FYI' segments can help ease the transition for many people.

@keneda said in This Forum's software is horrible! :

BTW if you can't do some things here it's because your reputation is not already high enough.

I couldnt find how to increase reputation... There isnt any links on the landing page to guide new users on how use the platforw.

Ideas for Categories:

• Biggest OS bug squashed
• Favourite new app in the open store
• Community's favourite developer
• Favourite new app concept ( in the app store)
• Best new port

Update
Since this is the first run at having these awards, I thought
its best to keep things a bit simple.
Here are the final two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

I would like to ask that you do a quick announcement for the 'Community Awards'.
Things have developed quite well with a lot of input from other community members.
This year we will have only two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

The prize for each category:

• a large pizza (details TBD).
• a webpage mentioning your award and why your won (details TBD).

Nominations are open until the evening of 1 Dec. Each forum member can nominate two nominees for each category (here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11623/call-for-nominations-for-the-ubports-community-awards?_=1764437371137 )

The current nominees are as follows:

Community favourite app

• OSM scout server
• uWolf
• Morph QT6
• futify
• dekko
• Sapot
• Keeweb
• Podcat
• RockWork
• Teleports
• OpenStore
• Waydroid
• LogViewer

Community favourite developer

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)
@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf)
@alan_g (Alan Griffiths)
@vlad-nirky (Vlad Nirki)
@Fuseteam (Tobiyo Kuujikai)
@kugiigi (Kugi Eusebio)
@CiberSheep (Joan CiberSheep)
@thevancedgamer (Muhammad)
@peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
@danfro (Daniel Frost)
@jonius (Jonathan Zeidler)

Prizes

Any one who wants to contribute to the prizes or make them more interesting is very very welcome to let us know what they have in mind.

@moem said in This Forum's software is horrible! :

You build up reputation by posting and getting upvotes on your posts.

I couldn't post because my reputation was too low.

@O.o.
I would need the same for Swedish BankID soon. I have tried to avoid waydroid for battery drain issues, but I will likely have no choice for Swedish banks.

@gpatel-fr I could not downgrade. The FP provided installer did not work so I went from A14 directly.

@kugiigi
Hello
So I dont have another phone with display out so I cant test that unfortunately.
I do agree that the hub seems to be what determines what issues I have.

I dont have major issues using any hubs with my asus laptop to charge and display out and the laptop draws more power than the phone.

What hub do you use?

I have been using UB as an adhoc laptop replacement and I have been impressed by how much I can get done with my FP5.

There are some sticking points though and this is one of them.
My phone has issues drawing power when connected to an usb hub and staying connected to the external display.

I had this issue in various forms over the past few months and it is very disrupting for work. Either I need to use the phone until the battery dies, then unplug the phone from the monitors to charge it or (on the occasions where it does charge while connected), I get disconnected while I am working.
Is there anything that can be done to correct this?

For example;
With a wavlink usb hub, I can charge while connected (sometimes) but if I remove the PD cable the monitor disconnects and my session closes.
With a ugreen usb hub, I get no connections if there is power or no power if I plug in PD after connecting to the monitor.
With my dual monitor setup at work, I seem to have no issues but I use this far less frequently. This has my phone connected to a Dell monitor via usb-c and draws power from the monitor.

@pparent
Much appreciated! I think these will be super useful.

@Lakotaubp
Yeah, I think we should add a category for the strangest bug found.

@CiberSheep

Thanks for adding the text. It was on my todo list. I had not got around to it yet.

I would like to add a write up on the community favourite awards to the website. Where is the correct place to put such a page and what is the correct process for adding the page? Should this be done via gitlab? Should I just share it here?

The results are in from the voting!
We have reached the close of the first (ever?) 'Community favourite' awards.

As a quick recap, we had two categories and many nominations. It looks like people were very hungry to acknowledge the work done on UT.
For the community favourite app we had 15 nominees.

OSM scout server
uWolf
Morph QT6
futify
dekko
Sapot
Keeweb
Podcat
RockWork
OpenStore
Waydroid
LogViewer
CinnyUT
TELEports
uNav

For the community favourite developer we had 13 nominees.

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)
@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf)
@alan_g (Alan Griffiths)
@vlad-nirky (Vlad Nirki)
@Fuseteam (Tobiyo Kuujikai)
@kugiigi (Kugi Eusebio)
@CiberSheep (Joan CiberSheep)
@thevancedgamer (Muhammad)
@peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
@danfro (Daniel Frost)
@jonius (Jonathan Zeidler)
(Brian Douglass)
@mariogrip (Marius Gripsgård)

For the community favourite app:
In second place, with 22% of the votes ... The Openstore
The first place and the winner ... is actually a tie with second place ... with 22% of the votes
TELEports.

For the community favourite developer:
In second place, with 22% of the votes ... @peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
The first place and the winner,
... with 25% of the votes.
@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to all the community for keeping UT up and running.
I will be in touch soon with details on how to get your prize.

I have sent a private message to @applee with the outcome of the voting for the Community Favourite Awards.
Please read it at the QA tonight!

@Vlad-Nirky
Thanks, I did not see the double entry.

Hello All
It is now time to vote for the Community Favourite Awards.

UPDATE:
You can have a first and second choice for each category. If you have not indicated so, please send me your second choice. You can vote for yourself too if you were nominated.

Voting closes on the evening of the 10 Dec.

This year we will have only two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

The prize for each category:

• a large pizza (details TBD).
• a webpage mentioning your award and why your won (details TBD).

Each forum member can vote for a first choice and second choice in each category. More details about the nominees can be found here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11623/call-for-nominations-for-the-ubports-community-awards?_=1764437371137

Community favourite app nominees

OSM scout server
uWolf
Morph QT6
futify
dekko
Sapot
Keeweb
Podcat
RockWork
OpenStore
Waydroid
LogViewer
CinnyUT
TELEports
uNav

Community favourite developer nominees

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)
@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf)
@alan_g (Alan Griffiths)
@vlad-nirky (Vlad Nirki)
@Fuseteam (Tobiyo Kuujikai)
@kugiigi (Kugi Eusebio)
@CiberSheep (Joan CiberSheep)
@thevancedgamer (Muhammad)
@peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
@danfro (Daniel Frost)
@jonius (Jonathan Zeidler)
(Brian Douglass)
@mariogrip (Marius Gripsgård)

How to vote

• Decide who you want to vote for.
• Send a private message to me with the vote for each category.
• Clearly mark which is your first choice and which is your second choice.
• You cannot change your vote later

Prizes

Any one who wants to contribute to the prizes or make them more interesting is very very welcome to let us know what they have in mind.