Button in the menu to check for updates

[rustynwac]

from Steve. Is the button best practice or using some sort of feature flagging? Assuming the issue is preventing folks from being stuck on old versions...

[stevekuznetsov]

We've got this automated already - whenever you're looking at the map screen, we're checking in the background and will ensure you get the update as soon as we can. I was thinking a menu item might help me/us debug things when we're not seeing that work as expected.

[rustynwac]

Are you thinking the button knows to only display when the version is outdated?

[stevekuznetsov]

What's missing here is some way for a user to interact with the system intentionally - right now we've got the "automatically behind the scenes" flow down, but if/when we're trying to figure out if that automatic system is broken, there's no way to for a user to explicitly push a button and ensure that the app has checked for an update (on the right channel) recently, determined that such an update does or does not exist, etc. Generally everything in the "am I on the latest version?" flow is just opaque today - either you trust the automatic flow worked, or you are SOL.