There’s a new Google Messages update page that takes up your phone’s entire display every time you open the app.
Granted, keeping your apps up to date is important, and this new system will help get that across to users. But we’re not sure annoying the hell out of the user about it is the best strategy.
“Maybe later” literally every time you open anything now. It should be illegal to not give people a “no” option.
People on metered connection and low connectivity areas are probably going to more inconvenienced by this force update banner. Unable to use your message app because you forgot to update and now cannot connect to the internet.
The problem is that sometimes they choose that, and then they pitch a fit at you when their out of date software becomes the point of entry that’s lead to them needing to figure out how to buy and trade crypto.
Software is made for the lowest common denominator to be able to use, and that means hand holding and railroading for everyone else, or else we get dumbasses who some the fuck how managed to backgrade their OS to the original Windows OS and are now exposed to literally every security risk that has been invented since that was released.
Don’t protect me from me or you’ll be protecting you from me next.
That’s still (slightly) better than apps which force close when they’re not updated, and don’t allow you to do anything at all.
Firefox on Linux has done this to me a few times and cost me a lot of progress and time.
I never had this issue. What were you using deb, rpm, flatpak or snap version?
I’m not near my computer to confirm right now, but I think I installed it manually from the tar file. I think there was an issue with the flatpak version on Pop!_OS, but I can’t remember what, since it has been years since I originally encountered it. I can confirm tomorrow if you want.
It’s weird that someone downvoted your question. I upvoted it to put it back at one. Idk why people downvote questions so often on this platform.
Firefox flatpak version had a lot issues. It has improved a lot, still a long way to go.
I have exclusively used Firefox flatpak for the last year and updates has been quite smooth. Never had my session closed automatically(to my memory) due to an update, usually waits for me close the session and when I reopen its updated.
My experience is limited to Ubuntu.
I think I installed it manually from the tar
I’m going to guess user error
It’s not. There are several threads about it online
Xbps on Void does it for sure.
What else is an app supposed to do if the server has been updated and is no longer compatible with the app version you are using?
if that happens occasionally, it’s fine. I’ve seen apps which update every other week and do this bullshit.
Didn’t all android apps take up your entire screen when you open them?
It is even worse: I disabled it on my Poco and it reappeared couple of days ago. Fuck Google!
Does anyone know the last version that didn’t do this?
Edit: trying messages.android_20240123_01_RC04, we’ll see if it works
Edit 2: for posterity, no that version also bugs you to update. The search continues.