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 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

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.

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.

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.

@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.

@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.

Hello
I might have missed it. Is there an app for 'automatically' populating gitlab/github bug reporting?
For me at least, I would be more inclined report bugs if it were easier.
It would help you guys too because you could get the app to send logs etc that are necessary for examining the problem.

@projectmoon
..... WTF, it wasnt there but now it is!!
Luckily I took a screenshot of when it wasnt there.
How do I share images on the forum?

I just received some NFC tags to play around with today ...
but now I cant find the NFC toggle on the phone.
I remember using it on the 24.04 stable but after upgrading to RC3, I cant find it.

@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!