Leave a Review New York Comic Con 2023
Horribly Buggy and Poorly Designed App
All the other reviews address the cons of using this app pretty well - it was much better designed in past years for optimal planning.
Something that hasn’t been mentioned is that after adding events from the schedule, the app bugs out and the entire schedule disappears! So annoying.Bonicorao
Don't bother
Does this app really not use iCloud? Good gods.dldnh
Everything I Need
The app must not have been finished when the others left their reviews. All panels and event schedules are included, and a map is coming soon. Scroll though the event list, mark the ones you want to see, and you end up with “My Schedule” that’s a focused view of all of your must-see stuffVin the UX guy
So many inconsistencies & issues!
The bad: Where to start?
1)) Where is the Exhibitors section? It’s up on the web site but missing from the app.
2)) Last year I recall being able to add Exhibitors and Artist Alley folks to my Favorites, but there’s no option to do so this year. For me this is a HUGE downgrade as it makes planning much easier. Last year after visiting a favorite I would unfavorite them in the app to easily see what booths/tables I still needed to visit.
3)) NYCC is launching Writer’s Block this year but there’s no support for it in the app. For example, Panels & Events can only be filtered by room. I want to easily see only the literary panels but there’s no Categories filter. The Guests screen does have a Categories filter but guess what’s missing? Literary.
4)) NYCC has advertised signings for authors including Rachel Smythe and V.E. Schwab and I am guessing that like last year, the big name authors will require a reservation. However, no author signing are shown on the schedule, which makes it difficult out to plan in general and specifically what reservations I want to try for. I am not talking about author signings at publisher booths.
5)) When viewing the individual screens for guests, some show which panels and events they are scheduled to appear at, and others do not even though they are expected to participate in a panel. EFoe example, look at Ewan McGregor then look at V.E. Schwab.
6)) Where are the detailed schedules for photo ops and autographs? I purchased several photo ops but without the specific times I can’t plan which panels to attend or reservations to try for or add them to my schedule in the app.
7)) In previous years we could use FB to login into the app, which meant everything I favorites could be synced across devices, but there’s now no login of any kind.
The good:
The Timeline view is a nice addition to the Schedule section, since it allows you to view only your favorited panels and check whether any of them overlap. Organizing by room was a smart idea as well because depending on the room, it can be a long walk to get from your one panel to another.Show lessmiri28
Panels?
I just care about the panels which are no where to be found in this new app.Gigi112000
There is no app I uninstall faster
Broken reservation system, broken links, spammy notifications that you can’t turn off without turning off the ones you actually need, apps just as phoned in as the conventionChrism.h
Dead Zone
I’ve never been able to use this app to comment on whether it’s helpful or not at the actual show. The whole place is such a dead zone that you’re lucky if you can even connect to their wifi.Sugar & Ziva
please invest in user experience
1 star for showing content and 1 star for working better than the website. Some key features one expects as a bare minimum of an event app are sorely missing though.
No default iOS share means one cannot share/copy links to panels (only can either post to facebook or send an email, neither of which are useful at this point). No way to map out favorites on calendar view. Filtering isn’t really thought through.Show lessbelchar
Doesn’t work
Waited in the reservations queue for 20 min, only to read my number didn’t through. And sent to the back of the linePapasmirf
not worth getting
comic con is, without fail, an absolute blast. i attend every year and i have so much fun !!! but their app is never good. the map function didn’t work. the events didn’t show up. there wasn’t really any point. kept giving me random notifications about things happening that weren’t even remotely interesting. all in all, not worth getting. still go to comic con though, you’ll have a great time! just skip downloading the app.Show lessxsnaeil
