Tone, linguistics, semantics. These are a few of my favourite things. Failures to communicate? One of my least favourite things, which happens way too often in the open source space.

I agree about the "Possibly unsafe" messaging. Both Apple and Google just inform you that the app uses certain permissions to gain access to certain features. #flathub should inform the user just that.

In regards to verification, anything not #opensource should get a yellow badge. Outdated Flatpaks should be red.

While I think Flathub could have used a milder tone, I think the message is still important. There are quite a few questionably packaged packages on FlatHub and I definitely think the user should be aware that it's unofficial when they encounter them.

This also might push developers to make those packages verified. Or maybe the maintainers of flatpaks can work with project devs to improve the quality of the package to make it official.