Since I’ve owned the https://flatpak.app domain for like six months, now, I decided to put it to use as an experiment…
You can now use it to link directly to apps or perform a search! As a start, I took a handful of the most popular apps to give them commonly-used shortnames; things like firefox or steam. An RDNN (like com.cassidyjames.plausible) will link directly to that Flathub page, and anything else will search Flathub.
It does support more than Flathub for short URLs as long as the app and remote are added to the directory—but I didn’t really see a viable way to support RDNN and searching for alternate remotes unless there is a configuration on the homepage.
Which I guess is possible; if there's interest, I could implement that using localstorage pretty easily; I just worry it wouldn't be very discoverable.
A neat thing about public, privacy-respecting tally counts: you can use that data to prioritize work! I noticed someone was seeing what happened when they looked for Plexamp, so I went ahead and added the three Plex apps.
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