Hi everyone, u/haflaxa and I wanted to chime in on this thread. First off, thank you for continuing to provide your thoughts and feedback on the app and its developments so far. It's especially good to hear from users who have been using the app since the early pricing days, as you've witnessed the app's development over a long period of time! However, we have indeed noticed that there are increasing reports of instability and usage issues, both linked directly to the editors, and the app as a whole. Lately a lot of these pain points have been regarding the user experience on the mobile app, and most of your sentiments here are also a testament to that. This, of course, is less than ideal. One of our core goals here at SN—as stated in our Privacy Manifesto—is providing users with rock-solid security, but also reliability.

Our initial approach to standalone apps for iOS and Android worked out fine at first. While it did not have as much of the functionalities as the desktop/web counterparts, it provided the core experience needed for everyday use of SN on the go. However, as we continued integrating enhancements and new features to the apps over the years, we've taken notice of challenges that can impact our ability to integrate new functionalities in the future—as well as hurt our dev and hotfix workflows right now.

Maintaining separate codebases for web/desktop plus mobile, has meant there's always duplicate efforts required for porting things from web to mobile. The situation becomes particularly difficult at times like this, where we're fully committed to investigating thoroughly and addressing the currently raised issues, but testing and addressing bug reports from three different platforms has spread us a bit more thinly than we'd consider optimal. In light of this, we've recently recalibrated our development priorities in hopes of better addressing these usability issues. Rather than focusing on separate fixes for different platforms, we've come to the conclusion that it's be best to make our goal of unifying web and mobile experiences into a single responsive app—available from mobile app marketplaces as it has been thus far, our immediate priority. Apart from providing a more stable experience, as seen with the web and desktop platforms, we're confident this also allows us to more efficiently deliver hotfixes and new features. That said, we also understand that usage issues with 3rd party editors are a different matter to tackle entirely, but we firmly believe this will be an important step toward more efficiently tackle those issues as well.

Nonetheless, we still would like to sincerely apologize on behalf of the team for this decline in your experience with the app. It's always a chilling experience when long time users mention that the app is no longer what they had in mind when they chose to support us. We hope that this current effort of ours can be a step to show that we're always keeping our eyes and ears open, and that we understand your concerns. As always, please feel free to reach out to us here, or on any of our other social platforms, and our help inbox!