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+I am considering removing the `git-annex webapp`. Your feedback is
+appreciated if you still use it. --[[Joey]]
+
+The assistant would be retained, so existing setups that were configured
+with the webapp would keep working, although users of those would need to
+replace any use of the webapp to control them with command-line use.
+
+The webapp has been only minimally maintained for about 10 years. There
+have been no new features, and while it amazingly continues to work, it
+doesn't addess many of the changes in git-annex. For example, there's no
+way to configure exporttree special remotes in the webapp.
+
+I think the webapp is barely used by git-annex users. The point of it was
+to make git-annex easy enough to set up to reach a larger user base. That
+necessarily meant building something that aspired to be more like dropbox
+than git. That never really happened. git-annex found its own user bases
+that appreciate its actual strengths, and who have helped build it in the
+directions where more and more people find it useful.
+
+Keeping the webapp in git-annex has a price. It has a complex and
+annoying dependency chain. (See [[ditch_yesod]].)
+It uses template haskell, which makes build times slow, and makes
+building use a lot more memory.
+
+The webapp also has some security exposure that stock git-annex does not
+have. Beyond the business of connecting to the webapp securely, the adhoc
+network protocol used by the webapp's pairing interface is baked into the
+assistant even when the webapp is not being used. And is not otherwise used
+in git-annex, and has had at least one security issue in the past.
+
+The git-annex binary also ends up significantly larger due to containing
+the webapp. And removing it deletes 28 thousand lines of code from
+git-annex, including embedded code copies of bootstrap and jquery.
+
+----
+
+The `removewebapp` branch has a working patch to remove the webapp.
+
+Documentation that mentions the webapp, including doc/git-annex-webapp.mdwn
+still would need to be updated.
+
+Also annex.autoupgrade needs to be updated, one of the options was webapp
+specific. Maybe upgrades are out of scope for the assistant too?