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Title: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: Nadejda Fudulska, MobiSystems, AquaMail support on April 02, 2019, 12:49:03 pm
Two and a half years ago Aqua Mail became a member of the MobiSystems family of apps. With it the company gained not only the best Android mail client, but also an invaluable team member in the face of Kostya. Through the combined efforts of him and the company, Aqua Mail grew in popularity and feature set.

Unfortunately, we have to announce that Kostya will be leaving Aqua Mail due to personal reasons. Everyone at MobiSystems is thankful for his many contributions and wishes him the best of luck in future endeavors.

Aqua Mail will stay in the MobiSystems family and we will continue to develop it as one of our flagship products.
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: nadir husain on April 02, 2019, 12:52:55 pm
A truly sad day. A real genius and an icon has departed. As a fan of Kostya I wish him well and the best of luck in whatever he does. Farewell!!
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: hpg38 on April 02, 2019, 12:55:16 pm
yes it's sad ..... good luck to Kostya ...
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: Kostya Vasilyev on April 02, 2019, 01:11:10 pm
Hello everyone. Just want to add a few words.

The reasons for my leaving are purely personal, and my departure was entirely and mutually amicable.

I know we (MobiSystems people + myself) did good work together over these 2 1/2 years.

At the same time, I'm absolutely sure that the app will continue to improve.

Nadia, Slavi and others at MobiSystems did quite well on the most recent release (1.19), it was made without my participation at all. I'm sure they'll do even better and better as time goes on.

Last but not least - thank you all dear users (forum users, but not only) for your continued interest in the app over these years.

Fun history bit:

The project started when Email app on my Galaxy I9100 uploaded a few hundred copies of a single sent message into the mail server's Sent folder... I just wanted to see if I'd be able to do better than that :)
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: phred on April 02, 2019, 02:02:39 pm
While coming somewhat late to the Aqua Mail fan club, I do truly appreciate the work that Kostya has done with this project. And he's been very helpful to me when I was just trying to figure out all the things that could be configured. He will certainly be missed.

Kostya- I will you well and good health in the future. Thanks for all you did.
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: Justin on April 02, 2019, 06:59:08 pm
@Kostya Thank you for your hard work. And good luck!

Hope that MobiSystems won't destroy the app next years. Even now, you don't get a reasonable answer when you ask about Changelogs.
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: nadir husain on April 02, 2019, 07:04:39 pm


Hope that MobiSystems won't destroy the app next years. Even now, you don't get a reasonable answer when you ask about Changelogs.
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I don't think we are going to see any significant  feature developments in Aquamail. Kostya was the man in charge. I don't believe Mobisystems have the technical wherewithal  to take this app forward. At best we can hope they maintain it. I see a drop on number of users as other apps move ahead and Aquamail stagnated. So sad!
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: mikeone on April 02, 2019, 08:10:53 pm
@Kostya Thank you for your hard work. And good luck!

Hope that MobiSystems won't destroy the app next years. Even now, you don't get a reasonable answer when you ask about Changelogs.
Yes, that's true. The ransparency and openness unfortunately suffered a lot. Also, there is virtually no interaction with the community anymore.
It's a pity, but it was to be expected.
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: patrickdrd on April 02, 2019, 08:13:00 pm
and this news coincides with the release of spark email app for Android, amazing!
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: nadir husain on April 02, 2019, 08:15:10 pm
@mikeone and @parisgeek are the two most significant contributors  to this forum. Hope they can continue to hold the fort .
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: phred on April 02, 2019, 08:51:19 pm
@mikeone and @parisgeek are the two most significant contributors  to this forum. Hope they can continue to hold the fort .
Yes. A tip of the ol' phred hat to both of them.
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: mikeone on April 02, 2019, 10:28:03 pm
@mikeone and @parisgeek are the two most significant contributors  to this forum. Hope they can continue to hold the fort .
Yes. A tip of the ol' phred hat to both of them.

Thanks for your honors.

Our both participation (and some others here in forum) was based on a great and respectful relationship.

I think we benefited from each other: Kostya has received some feedback from the user's side and we have been able to share our own ideas in developing a fantastic app.

On the other hand, we have tried to support Kostya in the time-consuming user support and therefore relieve him (a bit) for the actual development work.

We will all miss him very much. Kostya, thanks for an outstanding great job you did. My friend, I wish you the very very best, good luck and above all, health for the future.

Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: ksuuk on April 02, 2019, 10:31:51 pm
Well, this was expected, such diplomatic answer is a typical political (pointless) announcement and I am also very sad that this community's spirit is gone & over.

However as I have seen Kostya -s activity in one other, kind of related group, so I hope that we will soon see some new stuff coming. :)

Kostya - all the best!
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: phred on April 03, 2019, 01:39:17 am
However as I have seen Kostya -s activity in one other, kind of related group, so I hope that we will soon see some new stuff coming. :)
Could you let us in on where this was?
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: this_is_nascar on April 03, 2019, 01:40:15 pm
Sadly, I think this is the beginning of the end for AM.  It's sad....


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Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: Dmitry_N on April 04, 2019, 10:47:44 am
Oh no man! :(
But I actually expected this to happen.
Good luck to you with whatever new you start up!
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: bschelst on April 09, 2019, 05:08:07 pm
Rip aquamail :(
Kostya is the only one who really implemented and fixed things.
Now bugs will remain open, like the fingerprint/ lock problem.
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: someone on April 22, 2019, 05:22:54 am
Very sad to see you leave. You are the soul of Aquamail and it is impossible to think of Aquamail without you behind it. I wish you all the best.

For historic reasons, what was the last version of Aquamail you wrote before Mobi acquired Aquamail?
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: Kostya Vasilyev on April 22, 2019, 09:53:41 pm
> For historic reasons, what was the last version of Aquamail you wrote before Mobi acquired Aquamail?

I don't quite remember version history but - one of the first things we did together (with MS) was to add Flurry analytics (even before any design changes, but I'm not positive on that part). As already correctly noted in another thread.

Oh time-wise, it was end of 2016.
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: chumley on May 02, 2019, 11:11:05 am
Thank you Kostya for all your work on AM. You created something great and should be very proud. Best wishes for whatever comes next. I hope to see the results of your talent and passion in other software in the future!
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: sam20e on June 04, 2019, 06:54:02 am
oh man. Just saw this thread. It's really sad to see you quit Kostya. I remember emailing you asking tons of question and you answered everything promptly.    I have to admit Aqua mail is one of the best android email client and that credit goes to you for sure.. wish you all the best buddy.

Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: mikeone on June 04, 2019, 09:09:47 am
oh man. Just saw this thread. It's really sad to see you quit Kostya. I remember emailing you asking tons of question and you answered everything promptly.    I have to admit Aqua mail is one of the best android email client and that credit goes to you for sure.. wish you all the best buddy.
+1

And now we all can see and feel the difference between Kostya's "one-man power" and the weakness of a commercially focused company (like MobiSystems, or any other corporation)... 🤗
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: drjat on June 04, 2019, 05:47:06 pm
I think Michael Maslarov from MobiSystems has been making reasonable effort. We should not complain excessively. Also - there is nothing to gain by repeated comments which only annoy the new developers team.
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: sam20e on June 04, 2019, 08:09:23 pm
I think Michael Maslarov from MobiSystems has been making reasonable effort. We should not complain excessively. Also - there is nothing to gain by repeated comments which only annoy the new developers team.

You only think. But we know for sure how much effort he put in. There is nothing wrong with repeated comments praising the creator of this app. No reason to be annoyed. We all expressing our gratitude here and that's perfectly fine.
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: mikeone on June 04, 2019, 11:35:58 pm
I think Michael Maslarov from MobiSystems has been making reasonable effort. We should not complain excessively. Also - there is nothing to gain by repeated comments which only annoy the new developers team.
Well, what I meant is that Kostya has done an extremely ambitious support with incredible responsiveness. Better than any other app developer I know and better than any corporation could ever do, because Kostya has driven the development forward with heart, dedication and passion.

But it is definitely noticeable that there is a gap compared to Kostya,... and what was to be expected.

This is not a complaint from my side against the current support, especially not against Michael.  At least since Michael got involved here, the community lives something again, rather then the few months before.
Title: Re: Kostya leaves Aqua Mail
Post by: Soko on August 03, 2019, 12:39:58 pm
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Well, what I meant is that Kostya has done an extremely ambitious support with incredible responsiveness. Better than any other app developer I know and better than any corporation could ever do, because Kostya has driven the development forward with heart, dedication and passion.

But it is definitely noticeable that there is a gap compared to Kostya,... and what was to be expected.

That's absolutely right. Thank You Kostya again for Your developement and support!

I hope AM will stay the best email-app for android. In my opinion, a mix from aquamail and maildroid would be the verybest...