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[Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Lucio Torre <lucio.torre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I see how this solution is a lot more expensive to you than the current
> "have the device do polling" solution, but i don't think it's a problem
> with the solution we propose, but a problem with needing to poll, which we
> cannot allow on the device.
>

Yeah, it's a shame because I agree with all of the goals, I agree that
polling is atrocious, but it's an architecture that I largely inherited and
have little control over. It's not really clear to me that it makes any
sense for Friends to continue to exist at this point. So I guess my plan is
to leave friends as-is, get it off the default install, come up with some
alternate solution for share-app (friends is the backend for share-app
currently). Fortunately, social network *uploads* can be done without
polling, so that should not be difficult.