If you feel that downloads are slow, just press ❎ to cancel the download then press Install/Update again so it picks up some other mirror.

There's no unified "F-Droid server" but several and a dozen or more mirrors.

Each time you try again it will use a different one. Hopefully the next one will have better bandwidth.

/PS: We've seen the reports, we will look into it.

@fdroidorg i wouldn't even care much about only getting 80kbit/s (as i do frequently) if fdroid kept reliably puttering along but very often it stops like 10% in unless i keep the app and screen active. when i can't do something else while it's downloading it's much more of an issue.

thanks for being a main reason i don't need a google account blobcatheart

@fdroidorg interesting. At #IzzyOnDroid, we saw this spike 2 days earlier, at the 23rd, with number of downloads (https://stats.izzyondroid.org/) suddenly spiking from 30k to 50k daily (but there were such spikes before). Coincidence? But yeah, number of daily visitors started climbing after 24th with 250k to 270k on the 27th…