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[Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately that was one of the problems, friends is architected as a
system daemon and it isn't possible to ship it as a click app.

It wasn't desirable to leave it on the phone as-is because it was bad for
battery life and was quite insecure as well.
On Jul 21, 2014 1:48 PM, "Sam Bull" <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On ĵaŭ, 2014-07-17 at 14:49 -0700, Robert Park wrote:
> > Friends had a large number of Hard Problems that we weren't confident
> > we could solve before RTM, therefore it was decided to remove it from
> > the phone, which is an issue we can revisit for 15.04 if there's
> > enough interest in reviving it and solving its problems.
> >
> > For now, and through RTM, webapps are the official way of accessing
> > social media sites on the Ubuntu Phone.
>
> The webapp is really irritating me. It can't even remember my login.
> Please can Friends be pushed to the store? Even with all the annoying
> bugs I prefer it over this webapp.
>