Gas Cubby v3 issues and privacy
As many users I was waiting for a long time for Gas Cubby update and I updated as soon as it released on the App Store. I logging in with my fuelly account (didn't have any data on fuelly) and stated using the app.
One issue I had with the new app is that the fuel consumption was not appearing next to each fuelup and when it was appearing it was wrong (for example 175L/100km!). I restarted the app, logged out and in from my fuelly account, restarted the app again and voila, it worked. Fuel consumption is correct.
But the problems don't stop here. With the old app I was adding a new fuelup by entering the cost/liter and the total cost. The app was calculating the liters I paid for. On the new Gas Cubby the algorithm has some flaws and it thinks that liters=cost. It doesn't divide the total cost with cost/l to calculate the liters. I entered some other values and found out that if the cost/l is above 2 it calculates correctly the liters. Please fix your algorithm.
Another issue is that I can no longer edit the octane field and add my own names in there. I had added my own names for fuel types of specific gas brands (like V-Power or V-Power racing) and now I have lost all these data. Could I retrieve these and add them in the new app?
I think the biggest issue with the new app is not a bug but the way gas cubby works. I was disappointed that I had to login to fuelly to start using the app. I was expecting that but hoping to be able to use the app like before and store all the data locally on my phone. Even with this behaviour I could disallow gas cubby from connecting to the internet using my data plan and use it like before. But the first time I started the app all of my data was uploaded to fuelly. That would be a nice feature if we could select which data could be seen by others and which could not. Now all of my data are accessible by everyone including dates of my fuelups and money I paid each time. I think you should consider more about users' privacy. These data are not useful for anyone. I could accept that everyone could see my average consumption, my best one and my last one but not all of my data for each fuelup.
If you are not planning to change this policy I'm thinking to close my fuelly account, create a fake one just for logging in to gas cubby and using the app without internet connection so all of my data would be accessible only from me. Maybe a better way woulb be to revert to the old app which was working without flaws for me and had everything I wanted.
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