Unable to update - errors from packagecloud

When running sudo apt updateI get this Err:15 https://packagecloud.io/shiftkey/desktop/any any InRelease 429 Too Many Requests [IP: 54.183.38.243 443]

This has always happened since I first installed 2.6.2 on Ubuntu 20.04. Whilst 2.6.2 works fine (aside from the annoying quirk with commits sometimes appearing to never finish unless you go away and do something else) it is getting to the point that it would be nice to be able to update to the latest (2.7.2). It is also annoying because it prevents the Ubuntu updater running correctly unless you disable the shiftkey repository from updates.

Does anyone else have this problem, is there a fix (alternative ppa location?) as it seems packagecloud is broken?

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As for other projects using packagecloud.io, they continuesly keep facing the same issue. For now it’s better to reinstall this fork via: https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases

You can easily get back all your repos read by the app on login 😃 Hope this helps. You will not be able to update it via ‘apt update’ and have to reinstall using the /releases page.

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For anyone facing similar packageio issues. Follow these steps for Debian/Ubuntu/PopOS etc., distros based on Debian and Ubuntu…:

1. Goto > Releases Page and download the .deb package.
2. On your system, open terminal and install ‘gdebi’ via apt > sudo apt install gdebi
3. Now goto the downloaded .deb package folder and open terminal
4. Type: gdebi file_name.deb

Done 😃