TacticalNuke
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Good Morning
As many of you know, we've had Android and iOS apps for a number of years that some of our members and moderators have used or currently use. For the past few years, it was the primary way that I used the forum. There have been two changes that have caused us to decide that we can no longer support the app. First, our provider of the app has made some changes over the years that make the app more difficult to maintain and cause functionality between the app and the forum to diverge. Unfortunately, there aren't any alternatives to our existing app provider.
I've been considering replacing it for a while, but the mobile experience under the old software wasn't at a place where it was at parity with the app. With our move to the current version of our software, the mobile experience has improved to the point where it's significantly better than the app. Despite years of using the app, I've recently moved to only using the mobile browser. Based on our usage statistics, this is the case for the majority of people, as the number of users of the app has declined. From an operational point of view, it's much preferred to only support a single software for access, both in terms of maintenance and ensuring a consistent user experience.
As a result, we've reached the point where we will be removing support for the app, with a transition period to allow people to move to a mobile browser. Effective today, the app will no longer be available for download from the iOS and Android stores. We will continue to support existing installations until the end of January 2020 (that is, for approximately 3 weeks).
Thank you for your understanding. Please let me know if you have any questions.
-TN
As many of you know, we've had Android and iOS apps for a number of years that some of our members and moderators have used or currently use. For the past few years, it was the primary way that I used the forum. There have been two changes that have caused us to decide that we can no longer support the app. First, our provider of the app has made some changes over the years that make the app more difficult to maintain and cause functionality between the app and the forum to diverge. Unfortunately, there aren't any alternatives to our existing app provider.
I've been considering replacing it for a while, but the mobile experience under the old software wasn't at a place where it was at parity with the app. With our move to the current version of our software, the mobile experience has improved to the point where it's significantly better than the app. Despite years of using the app, I've recently moved to only using the mobile browser. Based on our usage statistics, this is the case for the majority of people, as the number of users of the app has declined. From an operational point of view, it's much preferred to only support a single software for access, both in terms of maintenance and ensuring a consistent user experience.
As a result, we've reached the point where we will be removing support for the app, with a transition period to allow people to move to a mobile browser. Effective today, the app will no longer be available for download from the iOS and Android stores. We will continue to support existing installations until the end of January 2020 (that is, for approximately 3 weeks).
Thank you for your understanding. Please let me know if you have any questions.
-TN
