The distinction is false. I have not (and more to the point, the many users who know nothing about our internal workings will not have) installed a "new" app; I have upgraded an existing app.
There was no mention in the list of changes, and no warning elsewhere, that this extremely useful functionality would disappear from my device when I did so. On Jun 26, 2014 12:11 AM, "Dan Garry" dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Andy,
The new app was built in native code from the ground up. So the nearby feature wasn't removed as much as it was never implemented.
I apologise if I sound pedantic, but this distinction is important; for the initial release of the new app, we focussed on the barebones features that we needed to have included as much as we possibly could while still getting this out of the door. The nearby feature didn't bubble up in importance as much as the others.
Right now, the most requested item in our feedback channels by far is a dark mode for night time reading. The number of requests for that are at least an order of magnitude larger than requests for any other feature, so we're focussing our efforts on that. But nearby is definitely on our roadmap.
Thanks!
Dan
On 25 June 2014 15:14, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 25 June 2014 20:18, Miguel García miguelgarcia@wikimedia.org.es wrote:
I will miss the amazing feature that allowed finding close articles by location. Any plans for restore this feature?
I came here to say the same thing. I can't believe this has been removed; nor that its removal came as a surprise.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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