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Apps randomly disappear from search results

The Aurora store generally is great, and a god-sent since most other sites want you to go to the google tracking play store instead or want you to use some other ad- and tracker-infested closed source apk downloader.

However, at least for me, it seems like apps seemingly randomly disappear from search results, which can be very frustrating to deal with. Here are some scenarios where that happens:

  • When the Android version I use isn't supported. However, this is very confusing and I've spent hours wondering how I typed the name wrong. It would be better to display it and refuse install and explain why.

  • I once had this happen when I tapped "Install" on an app, then f-droid in its infinite wisdom killed Aurora in the middle of the download with an Aurora update, and when I launched Aurora again it no longer listed the app. Almost as if I had it installed, but since it hadn't even finished downloading, it didn't.

I hope that eventually perhaps this can be addressed to make this awesome stpre even greater.

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