On 15.04.2015 05:36, Dan Garry wrote:
On 14 April 2015 at 16:47, Shankar <notnarayan@gmail.com mailto:notnarayan@gmail.com> wrote:
Without spending too much time can someone point me to a rationale why the app was sunset in the first place.https://www.mail-archive.com/mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg02586.html
In short, the Commons app had around 300 unique users per month. The Wikipedia app has around 6,000,000 unique users per month. Given our team size, we decided it was more strategic to devote all of our efforts to making the Wikipedia app the best it can be.
An Android Commons mobile app is probably the mandatory catalisator for hundreds of millions of people to participate to Commons. If you have only 300 unique users a month with an official Commons app, IMO the only thing it tells you is: the app is not good enough!
But, these numbers are not a surprise to me. I have tested Commons *in real conditions* a year ago in Africa and the result was: almost impossible to upload picture to Commons (but no problem to upload the same pictures to Tumblr).
That why I'm still a little bit surprised/disappointed that it was not possible to allocate 100->200 KUSD to get this important piece of software working. And, although I'm happy to see new further third-party developments on that app, it seems to focus on iOS, ie. forget the "game changer".
Emmanuel