"On 11 July 2014 22:34, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The new Android app isn't simply an upgrade of the
last version, it's
a complete re-write in native code
This technical nicety is of no interest to most users, whose app was "updated".
In determining the feature set, the team
looked at core functionality they really wanted to deliver in the
first release, and iterated on that based on user feedback during the
beta.
I didn't participate in this round of the beta, because there was no
suggestion in anything that I read that significant - significantly
useful - existing functionality would be removed. (Indeed, the removal
wasn't mentioned when the "revamped" app was announced by your WMF
colleagues.) I did, though, spend some time testing the "nearby"
feature in v1's beta - and demonstrating it when promoting the app to
audiences outside the Wikipedia community.
In splitting this thread and describing it as "off topic", you've
overlooked that my comments were in the context of - and in response
to - your comment about "change-aversion [tending] to correlate pretty
strongly with impact on existing workflows and noticeable changes to
user experience and behaviour".
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk