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[Phil <madhemail-launchpad@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14/6/16, Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] A very open thank you.
 To: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Date: Tuesday, 14 June, 2016, 9:47
 
 Pretty gats isnt it 
 it stiil works ok on the M10 
 ive tried messenger apps but they are no good -
 so yes its very odd and
 i dont see the
 point?
 
 Wayne

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There was a large glut of people uninstalling the app (from Android, at least, but I suspect iOS was the same) a short while ago after it became more and more intrusive, and they went back to the web client.  I suspect this is Facebook's kickback against that.  Yeah, just try to get people to install Telegram alongside it - at least it's free and quite easy to do, so you may be able to get some converts.  I don't know how well the full site views on a phone - if it's usable, you could create a web-app with a desktop user agent string so you get the full site on your phone (and still keep the site sandboxed).  That's what I did with an app I knocked up and pushed up to the store - Fatter: which gives a full-fat Twitter experience (e.g. you can control list membership, etc).

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 On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 08:37 +0100, Gareth
 France wrote:
 > I just wanted to say
 thanks to the Facebook team for breaking the 
 > website for me. Where is the logic behind
 removing the ability to 
 > message
 people for anyone who doesn't have an apple or
 android
 > device? 
 >
 Oh and the message asking me to download the app is just
 pouring
 > salt 
 >
 into the wound by the way!
 > 
 
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