Crashes on startup
Immediately crashes on startup. Persist after uninstall. Was buggy even when it did open, images and post text constantly not loading.
Completely Useless
I have given up on trying to use this app. Every time I want to use it to look at Piazza on my phone, I try to log in only to get vague “Please authenticate” errors. I then try to authenticate by going down and authenticating through my institution (horrible UI by the way - why even have a sign in if won’t work without a completely separate sign in). But yet, this doesn’t work either - I successfully sign in only to get stuck at an “Authenticating” page.
As it is, even once in, the app is extremely buggy and crashes often. It seems like it’s mostly an embedded webpage of Piazza, which is already an unstable and bloated web service.
So, as I said, I’ve given up. I just sign in through Canvas on my phone now and look at the embedded Piazza page there. It’s definitely not ideal, but hey, nothing about Piazza is.
As it is, even once in, the app is extremely buggy and crashes often. It seems like it’s mostly an embedded webpage of Piazza, which is already an unstable and bloated web service.
So, as I said, I’ve given up. I just sign in through Canvas on my phone now and look at the embedded Piazza page there. It’s definitely not ideal, but hey, nothing about Piazza is.
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app is way worse than website also add dislike button
hate how you cant see the amount of good questions like in the website. also the ui is lowkey doodoo unlike the website where you can actually scroll properly. also add dislike button for when someone replies to your question with the most useless response ever.
Worthless
The only feature of this app that’s worth your time is number on the icon that shows how many unread posts there are at a glance.
Beyond that:
- it crashes often as soon as you hit create a post
- it will let you spend minutes writing a reply, then delete it with an error message when you hit post.
Looking through the reviews I’m puzzled as to why Piazza has not fixed these problems. One of my students could do this as a summer project.
Beyond that:
- it crashes often as soon as you hit create a post
- it will let you spend minutes writing a reply, then delete it with an error message when you hit post.
Looking through the reviews I’m puzzled as to why Piazza has not fixed these problems. One of my students could do this as a summer project.
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Keeps adding classes
App is fine but keeps adding back classes I’ve dropped so I have to keep manually dropping them and it’s getting annoying. Didn’t used to do that
No image preview, no management interface
The app hasn’t been updated in ages and is missing a whole lot of features.
Image previews don’t show up at all. There’s no way to see the course management interface. You can’t mark answers as good/bad. Every time you try to do something else you can in the web it doesn’t work, and creates frustrating surprises (bad ones) at every opportunity.
It’s really just an excuse for Piazza to be able to claim them have an app. They’re not serious about it and their lack of interest shows.
Image previews don’t show up at all. There’s no way to see the course management interface. You can’t mark answers as good/bad. Every time you try to do something else you can in the web it doesn’t work, and creates frustrating surprises (bad ones) at every opportunity.
It’s really just an excuse for Piazza to be able to claim them have an app. They’re not serious about it and their lack of interest shows.
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2023, but they still can’t afford decent iOS devs
The app was bad to begin with, but somehow it became even worse in the past couple years. To the point that I feel compelled to write a review.
It’s very sluggish, unresponsive and buggy. It takes at least two attempts to log in every time (with the new way of logging through the institution’s auth system). When tapping on a question/note, sometimes it just wouldn’t load. The editor is obsolete and very inconvenient (try typing a LaTeX equation in there, with switching keyboard layouts to type those double $$ signs). It lacks some of the features of the website version, like seeing if someone likes a comment or a post, or some options that are available for instructors.
The list goes on. If you care about your product, please redesign and refresh the mobile app.
It’s very sluggish, unresponsive and buggy. It takes at least two attempts to log in every time (with the new way of logging through the institution’s auth system). When tapping on a question/note, sometimes it just wouldn’t load. The editor is obsolete and very inconvenient (try typing a LaTeX equation in there, with switching keyboard layouts to type those double $$ signs). It lacks some of the features of the website version, like seeing if someone likes a comment or a post, or some options that are available for instructors.
The list goes on. If you care about your product, please redesign and refresh the mobile app.
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Can't login
One of the worst apps ever. While trying to login, I have to select school authentication and it shows me two options "Piazza University" and "University of Virginia". I can't search for my school to even login. How can you so measerably mess up an app. Good job developers.
Mobile app is poor
Mobile app leaves a lot to be desired. Half the time it doesn’t even show any posts but instructor posts for some reason.
logs me out everytime :(
everytime i open the app i have to log in again and there is no setting for this
