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 24.04-1.3

News

• Now testing on 24.04-1.3
• Snaps now do notifications!!
• You can snaps via App Centre with functional password prompting!!

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
Based on 24.04-1.3
app center
alpaca
cozy
firefox
hardware sensor indicator
amberol
kate
gnome-weather

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

gnome-hitori
local send
evince
blanket :
supertux
alienshooter

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
dolphin
Gimp

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

zetsubougames-wandernomore
angelfish
steam
minetest
gnome-nibbles
gnome-chess
tuxfishing
supertuxkart
komikku
ubports-installer
opentyrian
axolotl
sensor monitor
gnome-contacts
gnome-mahjongg
gnome-sudoku
gnome-calculator
gnome-clocks
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.

@wally sorry, misread the title!

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.

@UBportsNews
Can you please remind people about the 'community favourite app' awards that will happen toward the end of the year.

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Toward the end of the year we will run the 'community favourite app awards' where we the community votes on our favourite apps for the year. Keep your eyes on what you use daily, pay attention when an app has some great updates and remember all those new apps. youll want all that info for the nominations and voting later.
If you have ideas for fundraising for an award please do offer suggestions. It would be great to have something substantial to give the developers.

@sixwheeledbeast
I guess what I was pointing more toward is that there are situations or people that need a more predictable control panel.
To be clear, I like the panel and the one hand scrolling. Its gorgeous to look at and most of the time its convenient. But it does mean that it is not good in emergencies.
For example:
say I urgently need to:

• Turn on wifi.
  I know to flick down just right of the camera notch, and the toggle is reliably about halfway down the page.
• access system settings.
  I try to flick down from the right top corner but what page I land on is a bit of a lottery. I then need to scroll to adust the pagu before I can do what I need.
  It is even worse for the items to the far left on the menu.

@projectmoon
So I have already have the app suspension disabled but the gps tracking requires that the screen is on. I think I discovered this by trial and error. When I turn the screen off, no tracks are recorded even if it is set to record.
when the screen is on, tracks are recorded.

In anycase, the post is less about the activity tracker issue but more generally about the bigger issue which is 'Can I use the panel reliably in an unexpected emergency?'.

I have a comment about the indicator panel at the top of the phone.

I have a very 'ubuntu touch' use-case that made me think about how the indicator panel is not good for 'urgent' use and can be a hazard for emergencies.

Summary: It is difficult to use the panel quickly and even more difficult when you can't see the screen well.

background:
To use the activity tracker when cycling I need to keep the app open. I use the active screen click to stop the phone from locking screen. To stop the battery from dying after 5 minutes I turn the brightness all the way down and turn off automatic brightness.
To use the phone when I take a break I need to turn the brightness up manually.

Issue:
When the brightness is all the way down, I can't reliably turn the screen brightness up because the scrolling behavior of the panel means the screen 'button' is never in an expected place. With Android I know to swipe down and the buttons are all in a predictable place so even if the screen is dark, I can get the slider with a few attempts.
In UT it is very difficult.

While this came up in a very niche (ubuntu touch-esque) use-case I think it has implications for everyone else in some emergency situations.
Eg. needing to turn on mobile data to make a call if you get an eye injury.

@nbdynl
Directly donating money is always an option but I did try this last year and I got very little engagement from the community.
I had asked for a 'promise to donate' rather than sending the money to anyone so there was effectively no risk for the donors as they would donate to the winner directly.

When I asked for people to dedicate time or effort to create a reward (images, logos, etc), I got much more engagement. This is great but it can't scale well if you want to get more than 5 people contributing to the reward.

@gpatel-fr
I don't know how this platform works so I had no idea that was an option.
This would be by far the easiest way to do this!

i guess this is something that the admin team would need to do.

I would like to run the 'community favourite app' awards again later this year but there are a few things that could have been a bit improved.
One issue was that we didnt have a nice award.

It would be good to gather something meaningful to provide as a reward to the developers. I was thinking to organise a fund raiser of sorts but I dont know what works best in this type of crowd.

What types of fund raising has worked in the past?

I would like to run the 'community favourite app' awards again later this year but there are a few things that could have been a bit improved.
One key issue was how to do the voting with anonymous members.

To have fair elections with a one person-one vote setup we need a way to regulate how often a person votes and thus we need a unique personal (albeit temporary) identifier. Normally this done through government issued IDs but I guess an email serves the same purpose if we dont need to be super strict... but the point is we would rely on an already existing system.

I doubt people in the community would be happy to share IDs, emails etc with a random internet person for the sake of voting.
To use online providers, I would still need to get everyones emails to register them.
Using the forum messaging system gets difficult for lots of voters as it means a lot of manual response collection.

Would a dedicated app provide any benefit? Would the open store be a way to ensure one phone - one vote anonymously? or would I still need to rely on emails etc?

@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.