In late June, I'll become a father to a new-born. This means, among other things, that I will not be able to keep working on LinuxPhoneApps.org.1
In fact, to be honest, I have not really been able to keep up with developments and changes since late 2025. Being back at $dayjob full-time and having learned to spot symptoms of incoming burn-out, I would allow myself to let LinuxPhoneApps.org just be 'a website' and take my time.
What does this mean?
Since I want to keep doing the weekly updates for linmob.net, I am going to effectively abandon LinuxPhoneApps.org in June. This means no further semi-automated content updates, no more blog-posts from then onwards. The site will stay up, I will make sure that the domain does not expire. If time allows, I may still occasionally add an app, but that's it. I'll also be there to merge merge requests - most likely with a 'if it breaks stuff, revert it' approach (which hopefully will fit my schedule).
Calling for maintainers/contributors/forks
While LinuxPhoneApps.org is not as necessary these days, as Flathub's Mobile Collection has been growing and device compatibility is now visible on Flathub, there's still some point in having this site (or one just like it).
First, there's the fact that there's apparently no review of supplied device support metadata values, meaning false positives (apps declared as mobile compatible, while not working on mobile) are bound to happen. The other obvious one is that some developers oppose flatpak for religious technical reasons.
Admittedly, the site as is comes with some bugs and technical debt, if I were to start over, I'd build it differently, custom-build on slightly extended appstream.xml instead of the Zola TOML+markdown listings.
If you have different ideas and goals (while staying on topic and listing apps), that's fine - and the upside of me leaving is: Just do it :-) I will try my best not to hold you back.
If you have ideas/plans/are interested, open a work item on Framagit and tag me or send an email to peter@linmob.net.
The handover
This is the tough bit: Trust will still need to be built, I can't and won't just assign maintainership-rights or handover the domain to a complete stranger who never contributed before. But I'll do my best to make that possible, even if you only come across this after late June.
And now?
Well, please get in touch, on Matrix, on the Fediverse or via email or best via a contribution, if you are interested in keeping this site going :-)
This is not really brand-new information, if you've watched my talk at FOSDEM 2026 or read the previous blog post. Unfortunately, I did not find the time for the screencasts I wanted to do back then and likely won't going forward.