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		eska on March 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New F-Droid repository format for faster and small... Because of perf/size issues they switched to JSON..? What were they using before?

benibela on March 4, 2023 | [–]

JSON

Looks like they switched from downloading the entire JSON on updates to downloading a patch

guntherhermann on March 3, 2023 | [–]

XML?

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