I've migrated off this hosting service a while ago but I wanted to let people know here just in case anyone is still using it. I recommend using less invasive cloud (ones not hosted in the United States preferably) or self-hosting if you have the option to.

Quote from Proton VPN:

Google has known about a bug that breaks VPN apps for 7 months, leaving users exposed with no warning or error, just a VPN app that stopped working in the background.

If you're using ANY VPN on Android, you can help us by getting Google's attention to fix it.

We first reported this bug to Google in September 2025.

Others like Mullvad and Wireguard reported it even earlier, in August.

Google's response? "I don't see anything unusual."

The bug corrupts Android's network stack at the system level after a VPN update, causing users to blame their VPN provider.

Restarting the app doesn't help, with the only fix being a full device reboot or VPN app reinstall, something which most users never figure out.

This affects several VPN providers on Android 16, and only Google has the access to diagnose it properly.

After 7 months of waiting, we're now asking publicly: Google, when are you fixing this?

Issue Tracker Links:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/441315112

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/4474331

I have an idea for the next version of lemmy and I wanted to know the process of proposing it and then getting clients to support it.

Because Oct 31 = Dec 25. (Octal 31 equals Decimal 25).