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🪲️ A list of bugs I encountered while trying Athena #74

@kaoneko

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@kaoneko

Hello @Kin69,

Thanks for sharing your app with the world, it looks really promising!

While trying it out I ran into quite a few bugs, some of which sadly make me unable to trust the app to perform its core task. I share them here in the hopes it may help you improve the app.

I installed version 1.80 from F-Droid and used VPN mode, on Android 15 (Hello UI):

  • Settings > Behavior > Use VPN is (visually) disabled after setting up the app on first use in VPN mode
  • 🔄 Athena is still acting like it's enabled after activating another VPN caused it to get disabled (shield in app is on, notification says Enforcing rules)
  • 🔍 New apps aren't shown in Athena automatically; need to force-stop and restart or use search to have them show up
  • 📜 When Settings > Filtering > Auto-update Lists is disabled the second line reads Disabledutomatically update filter lists
  • 🌐 When an app receives an update, internet access is restored for the app
  • ⚙️ When changing Settings > Behavior > Block Wi-Fi by default and Block Cellular by default this is applied to all current apps, overwriting my custom settings
  • 🚫 In reality, these settings have no effect whatsoever on newly installed apps; they always have full internet access
  • 🛎️ Settings > Notifications > Permanent Notification (Make notification silent and not colored) does exactly the opposite: when enabled it makes the notification not-silent and colored. Also instead of updating the notification style immediately it only does so after disabling and re-enabling Athena.
  • 🤔 It's unclear what the DNS Blocking quick settings tile does, there is no corresponding setting in the app, which also means one may disable DNS blocking through it, remove it and later run into some settings not having any effect without having any indication why.

Cheers!

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