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  • Amazing branding, nothing more

    Worse than Facebook and Instagram. It has tons of bots that steal your content and the site itself has their own bots that replicate your content and insert unlabeled ads to it. Unlike Instagram, there is no DMCA take down support. They side with the ad agencies and one of the founders also now runs an ad agency. To add insult to injury, their brilliant design includes ‘erroneously’ charging me for an entire year when I signed up for monthly and then magically reinstating reoccurring monthly payments even after I cancelled. The founder took the time to personally decline to refund me and refuse to turn off reoccurring payments so I had to go through my bank.
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    Developer Response

    Not sure how to respond here as most of the information here is erroneous. No one at Are.na runs an ad agency, and there are no bots that replicate content and insert ads into them. We respond regularly to DMCA requests and regularly give refunds for mistaken payments. This person requested that we delete a real person's account that they claimed was a bot (which we would never do).
  • Unexpected error when uploading

    Whenever I tried to upload an image to a block, it just says unexpected error has occurred. I had to use the webpage to upload instead of using the app. Please fix this, as this is very inconvenient.
  • Really needs a Forgot your password function

    Like cmon... this is a basic feature that makes your app useless if left out
  • Buggy

    Loaded the app.
    Create Account
    Filled out all of the required info
    Press Create
    Unexpected Error Occurred.

    I mean - wow! Great first impression. Also a great way of handing errors. Lol.
  • Tumblr and Pinterest look silly in comparison

    Excellent platform. The app can be a bit crash-y and is missing some features that the desktop site has (sorting by random, for example) but it’s a work in progress and I have faith that we’ll get there :) thanks for everything arenafolk!
  • So unstable

    Love Are.na but why is the app so unstable, I can’t use it for more than a minute without it crashing. So frustrating. Please fix it!
  • buggy af

    I Love the online platform, so it’s particularly frustrating to move so seam(fully) to this app! Even basic functions like uploading an image or changing channel settings might shutdown the entire endeavor or take forever to appear as completed. The interface is great, just please please have a debugging zoom party or Something
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  • Sounds great but just not useable!

    This should be a slick app for dumping all sorts of stuff you come across when googling away, it looks sleek and striped back but unfortunately it doesn’t work. Really it doesn’t work! Firstly you couldn’t even sign up (error), every time I copy something in it just spins and spins like windows 95, has it crashed, is it thinking. It should be something you don’t need to think about, it should work fast and effectively or what is the point of this Pinterest clone.
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  • Amazing Web Tool, Average App

    The web tool is absolutely amazing, but the apps structure has some issues. I wish the profile structure was easier to use. The process of searching through all my channels in laborious and would be wonderful if it was as easy to use as your web app.

    Going through content is great though. The connections feature works well. It’s only the profile and content management that is a bit more difficult.
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  • Crashes often

    Love the site but the app is constantly crashing unfortch :(

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