I like the update for the layout, but what I realy mis is what apps are new in the store.
In the old store I always looked at the new possebilitys for Homey.
My best bet will be that itâs not done yet?
@Rocodamelshekima Iâm not seeing a beta sign, but i hope that youre right and IT is nog ready.
@RoyWissenburg
Ehh that expression doesnât make anny sense in this situation. But you live in Holland, do you ever hear of freedom of speeche?
Have you actually tried the new site/page? Did you try searching for an app? Searching for the exact name of an app doesnât show a link to the app. The only way now to find an app is use google. And when you get to the app a link to the github sources isnât available anymore.
You now can choose from a total 25 apps, or you must know of an app and use google to find it.
What did they expect? We would embrace the new look and think itâs progress? Sure maybe it gets better in time, but the site in itâs current state should have never been released.
Most of us are open to changes (I think) , but only if itâs a change for the better, not if it 4 steps back.
No itâs not, itâs online. It offers me to search for apps. If itâs not ready yet, it shouldnât be online.
This is just stupid. The only way to install an app is with the app store. The new app store does not work. This is just stupid.
As far as I know, when adding a device for which the app is not yet installed, the installation will be done from within the Homey app (seems to still work).
That said, the app store should of course work. Seems only Athom apps can be found at this moment.
I think a lot of complaints (on this subject, but also other) can be prevented by basic communication. There is an announcements part in this forum, the forum is owned by Athom. A simple announcement from them on changes like these would probably prevent a topic or ten being opened on each change.
I very often use the app store website to find apps and their repositories so I can help out people here on the forum. Now I canât find half of the apps anymore. Even less incentive for me to help out others.
Totally agree with you, it should of course just work. My comment was more for those that did think that apps/devices can only be installed via the app store.
Try the Homey app - while as the blog article says , the app store gets indexed.
Though I got to say - seems to be working fine for me now.
Still missing the option to just show all apps. To like browse and look for new things âŚ
There are so much brands and sometimes i scroll trough the apps to checkout a product that i never heard of
Well, there is still a lot of work to do. Besides a way to just browse trough the apps, the current apps still havenât fully been indexed yet.
Searching for Fibaro (which is in the populair section) doesnât find anything. Searching for âklikâ doesnât find anything, searching for klika, it finds the 2 apps. But âklik aâ doesnât find anything. How should a user know what to search for? There must be smarter ways to work with this.
+1 for newest apps, it used to be my first go to overview in the app store. Canât do without it so please bring it back.
Need to confess that w/ the new layout Athom finally entered the 21st century of UI. Congrats.
Really like the look and feel. Though itâs not yet working flawless and too much a intransparent and tooooo much useless âGoogle on-Site searchâ when showing the results - I hope theyâll cut it down very narrow to the very basics and not try to cover all at once (it may fail, believe me!!)
I often use the github link to see how an app is working and sometimes tweak it, since the link is no longer there this will be a problem.
I just filled out a feature request for adding this back, in case you agree please do the same:
There is no need to ask for support, as it is done on purpose, from the blogpost:
Open source
Apps can now be open source, but donât have to anymore. When you want to share the source, add a source property in your app.json .
So it is up to the developer to add the source to its app.json
And became opt-in, instead of (a difficult) opt-out
IMHO it shouldâve been the other way around, your app source will be published unless you add an optional âshow_source : falseâ to app.json
They apparently had a good reason we donât know of, and probably wonât get to know, for doing it this way.
But yes, if enough people agree/mention it will probably change to opt-out.
Unless their own reason is more solid of course.
In this form the app website is very bad now U MUST KNOW HOW youre app must be CALLED other wise u cant find it, and that very BAD.