alt Hacker NewsMy account got closed for inactivity while I had multiple apps published. Google does not understand the concept of a finished app apparently, and requires you to continuously push updates or else you permanently lose your account with no way of reopening it.
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maybewhenthesun • today at 7:02 AM
They do the same with youtube accounts. My parents lost a ton a family movies that way. No warning either, just poof -> gone.
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reddalo • today at 7:25 AM
It happened to me too. And they didn't even refund my $20 or so.
zx8080 • today at 7:24 AM
> Google does not understand the concept of a finished app
They do! They just hate it.
vrganj • today at 6:45 AM
Gotta drive engagement bro! Line must go up!
ur-whale • today at 6:46 AM
> requires you to continuously push updates
Sounds like a perfect job to automate by an always-on LLM.
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I have just one app I published way back in 2014 or so, and I think there were only 2 updates (only counting changes that required uploading new builds) since then that were like "do this or we're taking the app down".
One of them was requiring a privacy policy, even for a fully offline game that doesn't even have the internet permission. The other one was having to update the target platform version if I remember correctly.