Confusing onboarding
First time user never heard of discourse before and won’t be using it again. Very poor communication of how to use the app. Keep trying to add a website and it doesn’t work. Not useful at all.
Never opens and can’t login.
Now I have to attempt to login every time I want to use the app. When I login with my credentials it either never logs me in or I get an “oops, something went wrong…” page.
I have iOS 15.
I have iOS 15.
Worthless
Just put a shortcut to a discourse site on your phone’s Home Screen… way better than this nonsense.
Usable
As has been noted, the relaunch effect is a nuisance: if you do too much heavy stuff in the interim, the app loses your place and starts out from scratch. And, of course, unlike a browser, there is no kind of tabs option, which would be immensely helpful at times.
For me, though, the biggest defect is the to-top scroll function (where touching the top of the screen scrolls to the top of the page). I use iCab for serious browsing, which does not have this at all relying instead on a persistent scroll bar (which can also be problematic at times). The problem is that the long-scroll pageless format used by Discourse means that scroll-to-top absolutely makes no sense. Discourse has its own little quick-scroll widget, anyway. The developer/maintainer needs to disable the scroll-to-top response.
For me, though, the biggest defect is the to-top scroll function (where touching the top of the screen scrolls to the top of the page). I use iCab for serious browsing, which does not have this at all relying instead on a persistent scroll bar (which can also be problematic at times). The problem is that the long-scroll pageless format used by Discourse means that scroll-to-top absolutely makes no sense. Discourse has its own little quick-scroll widget, anyway. The developer/maintainer needs to disable the scroll-to-top response.
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Works well
I like this App and it’s useful for keeping track when you are a member of several discourse sites. It saves having to log in every time and the integration with iOS notifications is helpful.
One bug in this version is that there is no back button for when you’ve opened an attachment posted to a forum. I have to exit the app and re-open it.
One bug in this version is that there is no back button for when you’ve opened an attachment posted to a forum. I have to exit the app and re-open it.
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Literally just a web browser for discourse pages
All it does is open a web browser for your discourse pages. Why does this even exist if that’s all it does? It doesn’t even keep you logged in.
Won’t pull login information
Up until about a week ago it was working fine. But either they updated or changed something and now when I go to login it opens the webpage for logging in, I do so and then rather than redirecting me to the app it just takes me to the website.
I have to login EVERY SINGLE TIME which makes this app pointless and worthless. Seriously how hard is it to get the redirect done right or simply have a done button on the site after logging in?
I have to login EVERY SINGLE TIME which makes this app pointless and worthless. Seriously how hard is it to get the redirect done right or simply have a done button on the site after logging in?
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Working well here
I can stay logged in to multiple different communities. Love the notifications feature. Recommending to others for sure.
Ditto: does what it needs to
There’s another review out there about how this does what it needs to do, handles push notifications and offers a central places to access different instances. They’re right. I’m giving 5 stars to offset some of the other bad reviews. This app deserves better.
Excellent Redesign
Even though it’s a pretty minimal redesign, I love it! The support for the dark theme was a much needed feature. I’m also no longer having issues with notifications coming in ~5 hours late even with the app open. Huge thanks!!
