Challenge friend option removed?

Why has the option to challenge a friend been removed in the latest version 0.9.4? All i see now is "Unfollow" and "report"

Also, there should be a challenge icon shortcut next to each player on the Friends list instead of digging through menus

@big_idjit said in #1:

Why has the option to challenge a friend been removed in the latest version 0.9.4? All i see now is "Unfollow" and "report"

Also, there should be a challenge icon shortcut next to each player on the Friends list instead of digging through menus

Yes, this was an intentional (temporary) change: https://github.com/lichess-org/mobile/commit/5c63ea68f3c131707476243baefc0c29b2defc73

@T-Rex96 said in #2:

Yes, this was an intentional (temporary) change: github.com/lichess-org/mobile/commit/5c63ea68f3c131707476243baefc0c29b2defc73

why? and when will it return?

As far as I know, once the feature is fully finished (currently notifications when receiving a challenge are not implemented).

Quote from Discord by main dev:

Not really but I got sidetracked by all the PRs to review and other priorities that arised in the meantime (feedback from bullet players about the reactivity of the board that I deemed important enough to work on a major change of chessground regarding the event listener).

I will try to make a release very soon and after that I will resume the work on challenges. Receiving challenges will involve local native notifications which is also not trivial to set up. That's why I prefered to make an intermediate release before finishing it, to release sooner.