Keep at it, mobile apps. Looking good!
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Toby Negrin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Congrats iOS folks -- a good day for apps indeed!
>
> -Toby
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Joshua Minor <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello mobile wikimedians,
>>
>> Big day for Wikipedia apps. First, big congrats to the Android team on
>> today's awesome update!
>>
>> On iOS, after a long beta testing period[1], focusing on improving
>> performance and reducing crashes and instability, we've released the 5.0.5
>> version of Wikipedia to the App Store.
>>
>> We expect users will see:
>>  - less hangs or failures to load on the Explore feed
>>  - full AuthManager support and stable account log in and creation
>>  - use less device resources, espeically when backgrounded and in our
>> backups
>>  - most importantly, less crashes!!
>>
>> We also fixed over a two dozen other bugs and usability issues, large and
>> small.
>>
>> Thanks to our volunteers (particularly thanks to huayu0723,
>> bart-kneepkens and gregggreg2 for their code contributions, and josve05a
>> for his invaluable help with OTRS and testing). I also want to thank our
>> beta testers, who put in extra effort on this version to help us find and
>> diagnose stability issues.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Josh
>>
>> [1] - You can read about the changes we made and the reason behind the
>> long beta in previous announce post here:
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-June/010254.html
>>
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