Yesterday I had issues w. watching #youtube videos from #newpipe -- some problem with parsing the URL properly I believe.
#fdroid reported no updates for the app. Went directly to the source, the #github repository and found a newly updated apk. Within 10 minutes I was up and running again.
This is one of the things I adore about the open source community. It's not that it's bug free. It's that bugs are found and fixed in an instant!