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2 months ago

The Store is being decimated by a handful of developers spamming low-effort apps

IoFace, Islandic, SunEast, Echelon, Wonderful, Saraswatches, Warm, FaceTime, Estefania83, tatu_vic

They just blatantly SPAM the heck out of the store.

This issue is now a weekly subject on /r/Garmin with hundreds of upvotes and people fuming and complaining.

This has gotta stop.

eau_de_vie
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  • 2 months ago in reply to Brandon.ConnectIQ

    Brandon after a long period of multiple discussion about this topic I am glad there is finally a voice from Garmin. I actual do think that they violate the terms: 

    No Spam, Malicious Software, or Other Damaging or Disruptive Activity. You may not use the Site in any manner that could overburden, damage, impair, disable, or breach the security of any Garmin server or network, or interfere with anyone else’s use and enjoyment of the Site.

    They do contribute to an overburden of apps on the server with to many apps and as you can read in these topics it interferes with the use and enjoyment of the Site of a lot of people. What do you think will happen if all developers here are going to be the same prolific and push hundreds or thousands of apps in the store to build their own webs? Are you still convinced that this would not lead to server or Site problems or are you just going to scale up?

    I bought in 2021 my second Garmin watch,  an Epix for 1000 euro, could not find a desired watch face, tried the old ones that are always visible and probably will be for ever and was a bit disappointed that such highend watch face lacked great watch faces. Started my first tryout project GVWatch for free and at that time it had a fear chance to be noticed. But all my other creations after that fail to be noticed because at that time the sit hit the fa.....eh.. Store. My expensive Epix feels cheap with all the spam in the Store and why would I try to create the same highend  class watch face when nobody gets to see or find it? Precise thats the reason I stopped all my development for the Store. Hope you all Garmin users enjoy the site thats in the Store and being dumped every day again and again..

    In your message I only read that Garmin provides the platform but you are not going to deal with the problems and all the users that are not happy with it because the doing of these spammers. My next watch will be an Apple watch if nothing happens, but who cares about that.....

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  • 2 months ago in reply to Brandon.ConnectIQ

    Brandon after a long period of multiple discussion about this topic I am glad there is finally a voice from Garmin. I actual do think that they violate the terms: 

    No Spam, Malicious Software, or Other Damaging or Disruptive Activity. You may not use the Site in any manner that could overburden, damage, impair, disable, or breach the security of any Garmin server or network, or interfere with anyone else’s use and enjoyment of the Site.

    They do contribute to an overburden of apps on the server with to many apps and as you can read in these topics it interferes with the use and enjoyment of the Site of a lot of people. What do you think will happen if all developers here are going to be the same prolific and push hundreds or thousands of apps in the store to build their own webs? Are you still convinced that this would not lead to server or Site problems or are you just going to scale up?

    I bought in 2021 my second Garmin watch,  an Epix for 1000 euro, could not find a desired watch face, tried the old ones that are always visible and probably will be for ever and was a bit disappointed that such highend watch face lacked great watch faces. Started my first tryout project GVWatch for free and at that time it had a fear chance to be noticed. But all my other creations after that fail to be noticed because at that time the sit hit the fa.....eh.. Store. My expensive Epix feels cheap with all the spam in the Store and why would I try to create the same highend  class watch face when nobody gets to see or find it? Precise thats the reason I stopped all my development for the Store. Hope you all Garmin users enjoy the site thats in the Store and being dumped every day again and again..

    In your message I only read that Garmin provides the platform but you are not going to deal with the problems and all the users that are not happy with it because the doing of these spammers. My next watch will be an Apple watch if nothing happens, but who cares about that.....

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