<story><title>Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap</title><url>https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/what-happened-to-signal-desktop/32119</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Y_Y</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s funny, because in accordance with my policy I delete snap immediately after install.</text></item><item><author>turblety</author><text>No one knows [1], except Snap. Not even the maintainers :(&lt;p&gt;Snaps response [2] seems to be:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I understand the sudden move of signal-desktop can be disruptive for people wishing to install this package. Just to confirm the reason for the absence - Snap Store administrators had to remove the snap in accordance with our policies. We hope to have it back shortly.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;snapcrafters&amp;#x2F;signal-desktop&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;70#issuecomment-1287895145&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;snapcrafters&amp;#x2F;signal-desktop&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;70#iss...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.snapcraft.io&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;what-happened-to-signal-desktop&amp;#x2F;32119&amp;#x2F;4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.snapcraft.io&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;what-happened-to-signal-desktop...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>TheRealPomax</author><text>After reading the thread, I still have no idea why it got removed, so: &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; did it get removed? What part(s) of the snap policies did they violate, and how is it possible that even something doesn&amp;#x27;t charge $100 a year before you can even publish a snap doesn&amp;#x27;t even notify the maintainers that their app got removed? Just because you run an app store doesn&amp;#x27;t mean Apple and Google&amp;#x27;s opaque refusal system is the part you should take inspiration from, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacob019</author><text>My new policy is to just install Debian instead.</text></comment>
<story><title>Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap</title><url>https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/what-happened-to-signal-desktop/32119</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Y_Y</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s funny, because in accordance with my policy I delete snap immediately after install.</text></item><item><author>turblety</author><text>No one knows [1], except Snap. Not even the maintainers :(&lt;p&gt;Snaps response [2] seems to be:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I understand the sudden move of signal-desktop can be disruptive for people wishing to install this package. Just to confirm the reason for the absence - Snap Store administrators had to remove the snap in accordance with our policies. We hope to have it back shortly.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;snapcrafters&amp;#x2F;signal-desktop&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;70#issuecomment-1287895145&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;snapcrafters&amp;#x2F;signal-desktop&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;70#iss...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.snapcraft.io&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;what-happened-to-signal-desktop&amp;#x2F;32119&amp;#x2F;4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.snapcraft.io&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;what-happened-to-signal-desktop...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>TheRealPomax</author><text>After reading the thread, I still have no idea why it got removed, so: &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; did it get removed? What part(s) of the snap policies did they violate, and how is it possible that even something doesn&amp;#x27;t charge $100 a year before you can even publish a snap doesn&amp;#x27;t even notify the maintainers that their app got removed? Just because you run an app store doesn&amp;#x27;t mean Apple and Google&amp;#x27;s opaque refusal system is the part you should take inspiration from, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Avamander</author><text>It also has the benefit of being able to get rid of that hideous ~&amp;#x2F;snap folder. With what were they thinking making that choice.</text></comment>