> On Sep 8, 2018, at 10:31 AM, Miika Turkia <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 8 Sep 2018, at 19.53, Jan Mulder <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 9/8/18 5:46 PM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>>> Clearly this isn't something we'll do overnight. But I think it's something 
>>> we should plan to phase out over the next few months.
>>> - the companion apps are gone from the mobile stores, the mobile apps have 
>>> replaced them
>> 
>> Hmm. Just checked, and its still in the Google Play store, with remarks as 
>> legacy, not supported any more, replaced by, etc. Not sure about the Apple 
>> store.
> 
> I didn’t see anything related on apple store when searching for subsurface, 
> not even subsurface-mobile

Searching on the Apple Store is weird. If you search for Subsurface-mobile 
you'll find it, but searching for Subsurface you won't. Very odd.
I thought the companion app on Google Play was gone. I'll look into that in a 
moment. I know it's gone for iOS.

>>> - uploading to the webservice from the mobile app is kinda weird, much 
>>> easier to just apply the fixes on device
>>> - our handling of the webservice ID is inconsistent, poorly designed, and 
>>> even more poorly documented. See 
>>> https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/issues/1648
>>> - still to this day people get confused with the GPS webservice and cloud 
>>> storage. At least once a month people send me password reset requests and 
>>> attach the webservice ID
>>> So, here's what I'd like to do:
>>> - remove support for downloading / applying GPS fixes from the webservice 
>>> in 4.8.2
>> 
>> 4.8.2 seems a bit quick (depending on what the planning will be, but my 
>> impression is very soon). Ok, just removing the menu item, and the UI in the 
>> preferences (the magic webservice user ID) is easy to do, but a clean and 
>> full removal from the backend is likely to be more complex. So, I assume you 
>> are talking here (for 4.8.2) about UI mainly, right?
>> 
>>> - remove support for uploading to the webservice in future mobile apps
>> 
>> Seems fine to me.
> 
> sounds sensiböe to get rid of it all

No one disagreed, so I'm merging the corresponding pull request.

/D
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