Cool update
The update is a step further away from what Foursqaure used to be but it seems more defined now, like it knows what its role is.
My only issue is the share button in a place page. Why does it even need to be there? It's all very well to send a message to someone telling them where a place is via Foursquare, but don't make it look so ugly and obvious.
I still miss the old Foursquare....
My only issue is the share button in a place page. Why does it even need to be there? It's all very well to send a message to someone telling them where a place is via Foursquare, but don't make it look so ugly and obvious.
I still miss the old Foursquare....
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Ruined And Pointless
Before the introduction of swarm, foursquare was wonderful. It was like playing a video game with your life, there was no app like it. Now it's nothing but a local guide similar to Yelp or countless others. Swarm does not replace the old foursquare and it's incredibly frustrating to see hundreds of negative reviews being ignored. Can you please just bring back the app we know and love? Everyone is begging you. Leave swarm for those who want it, but please give us foursquare back. Badges, points, mayorships, tips, there was nothing else like it out there.
Please listen to your customers. We're all telling you what we want. We hate this app after what you've done to it. It's a poor business decision to ignore your fan base. (The longer you leave it, the faster it will diminish.)
Please listen to your customers. We're all telling you what we want. We hate this app after what you've done to it. It's a poor business decision to ignore your fan base. (The longer you leave it, the faster it will diminish.)
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Removing check-in a mistake
Unbundling the check-in function is just stupid. It now takes two apps to do the previous role performed by one. How is that a benefit?
But more importantly, it makes it harder for users to make Foursquare useful. Not everyone wants to find their friends or share their location directly with others users. To me, the great benefit of Foursquare is the power of crowdsourcing, especially when travelling. Recently, we were overseas, and used Foursquare to find all sorts of good cafes, restaurants, and other entertainment we would otherwise have not found.
Those in turn were rated highly and recommended by Foursquare because people were checking in. We in our turn also checked in at places we liked.
We didn’t do this to find friends. We had none in the country.
We checked in to contribute.
With a separate app, why bother? More importantly, hundreds if not thousands of other users are asking the same question. So, the end result is that the benefit of crowdsourcing will diminish over time, and so the utility of Foursquare will reduce. And so it goes, in an ever diminishing spiral, until Foursquare becomes the MySpace of location-based check-in apps. “What ever happened to Foursquare?” “Oh, they became arrogant and thought they knew better than their user base, so everyone abandoned them for apps that actually promised what they delivered."
But more importantly, it makes it harder for users to make Foursquare useful. Not everyone wants to find their friends or share their location directly with others users. To me, the great benefit of Foursquare is the power of crowdsourcing, especially when travelling. Recently, we were overseas, and used Foursquare to find all sorts of good cafes, restaurants, and other entertainment we would otherwise have not found.
Those in turn were rated highly and recommended by Foursquare because people were checking in. We in our turn also checked in at places we liked.
We didn’t do this to find friends. We had none in the country.
We checked in to contribute.
With a separate app, why bother? More importantly, hundreds if not thousands of other users are asking the same question. So, the end result is that the benefit of crowdsourcing will diminish over time, and so the utility of Foursquare will reduce. And so it goes, in an ever diminishing spiral, until Foursquare becomes the MySpace of location-based check-in apps. “What ever happened to Foursquare?” “Oh, they became arrogant and thought they knew better than their user base, so everyone abandoned them for apps that actually promised what they delivered."
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Better before Swarm
The latest update removes the ability to check in. That functionality is now in a desperate app, called Swarm, designed to be more of a social 'what are my friends up to right now' type of deal.
I used to enjoy checking in, seeing the tips come up and leaving one of my own as a kind of endorsement. I suppose I can still review places, but without checking in it's less fun somehow.
As for Swarm, it's Foursquare without reviews. Which is to say, not very useful. If I'm out it's either with friends I've organized beforehand, or without friends by design. If you don't need to know that your buddy Bob is having a hamburger around the corner from you right now, Swarm might not hold much interest either.
I used to enjoy checking in, seeing the tips come up and leaving one of my own as a kind of endorsement. I suppose I can still review places, but without checking in it's less fun somehow.
As for Swarm, it's Foursquare without reviews. Which is to say, not very useful. If I'm out it's either with friends I've organized beforehand, or without friends by design. If you don't need to know that your buddy Bob is having a hamburger around the corner from you right now, Swarm might not hold much interest either.
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Rubbish - zero stars
What is the point of forcing us to have 2 apps (Four Square and Swarm) to do what used to only require 1 app (Four Square)?!? You can't even use Four Square to check in any more, which was the main reason to even install it. So the options are clog up my phone with another app that I'm not going to use because it doesn't offer any additional useful functionality that makes it worthwhile opening, delete one or the other and lose half the functionality that I'm used to having, or delete them both and find another app that offers checking in. I think I'll take the last option
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Beautiful interface and easy to use
The layout of this app is very intuitive, and it's one of the less in-your-face and all-the-rage social apps. It's more subtle and elegant, and gives you a sense of establishment as well as reminding you of the places you've been.
Good with Momento
I like this app because I link it to my diary app Momento
Fun concept too.
Update jan 2014: thumbs up to the foursquare team. V7 is good. It seems that each version is incrementally better. A few new features. Better stability. Design enhancements. The way mobile app development probably should be. Well done
Fun concept too.
Update jan 2014: thumbs up to the foursquare team. V7 is good. It seems that each version is incrementally better. A few new features. Better stability. Design enhancements. The way mobile app development probably should be. Well done
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Greatest Travel App!
After traveling around the world this beat Google for accuracy every time! Sometimes both were off. Trip Advisor just uses Google. Apple maps are a joke. Some people just don't get FourSquare. But you are helping others know what, when, why and if to go there - it is data made by us to be used by us. That is what makes it so powerful. It also became a trip diary! Awesome :)
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Love the app, over 75 badges., BUT.....
HATE how u can't get notifications to more than one device, so outta my iPad 4, my 2 iPhone 5S's and my S4 I can choose only one to get notifications?? Why, all other apps as large and pop as 4Sq gives notifications to ALL my devices..
Really annoys me, if I'm out of credit on my device that's getting notif, then I don't get anything on my devices.. Needs to be fixed, used to get it on all devices.. 3🌟 coz it works and is stable, 5🌟 when u let all divvies logged in get notified of events..
Really annoys me, if I'm out of credit on my device that's getting notif, then I don't get anything on my devices.. Needs to be fixed, used to get it on all devices.. 3🌟 coz it works and is stable, 5🌟 when u let all divvies logged in get notified of events..
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:S
I'm glad there was a new update cos it had been the same for a while now. I can tolerate the profile layout since I don't really look at it that much. I like the new check in with the map as well but what I really don't like is the Friends section. It's so complicated and messy. It's so hard to differentiate between nearby and worldwide. You can see friends multiple check ins so if a friend moves around a lot you're going to be flooded by their check ins in comparison to someone who doesn't check in that much. So by saying that, I prefer the old layout as it was simple and easy on the eyes. This just makes it harder to see where your friends are :/ It's getting too much like Facebook where your friends can see every little thing you're doing...
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