Lousy new Recon
Horrible new Recon app. Does not work well on an Apple IPad. The former app was much better. I will not be renewing my subscription after many years on Recon. The nearby feature Does Not Work. Plus doesn’t indicate who is online. Doesnt seem that the list of guys online is updated . Keeps showing the same people and yet Scruff and Grinder are constantly updated. Big disappointment here.
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Worse and worse
Just keeps going backwards
Shocked how bad
This is no doubt the worst app I’ve ever used. The old one was ok and useable but the new version is truly shocking. Some of the features just don’t work and you can’t even upload photos to your albums anymore.
The people who coded this need fired. It’s a hack job at best. Claude code can actually do much better
The people who coded this need fired. It’s a hack job at best. Claude code can actually do much better
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La nouvelle mise à jour est catastrophique… dommage de base c’est un super concept de faire une appli fetish mais la … revenez à l’ancienne version qui était 100 fois mieux !!! On a même perdu des fonctionnalités sur cette nouvelle version bref nul je vais me désabonner …
It wasn’t perfect but now it’s awful
The new version is unusable.
IOS app is completely worthless
Don’t bother even downloading the iOS app. It is truly worthless. Just go to the website through Your internet browser. At least that works reasonably well. Literally the only thing that works about the iOS app is that it notifies You when You get a message. I love Recon. I wish this app worked. Hopefully it will get fixed.
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From mediocre to abysmal
The old app was clearly dated but the UX on the new version isn’t designed for mobile. Way too little information on the page; too much empty space; fonts too small; too much scrolling; too many taps to get somewhere… Why bother having an app if you’re just replicating the web interface?
It's functional and improved!
Ok it's not perfect, but the app is far less clunky than it used to be and it deserves a better rating than it has now.
Terrible new app
I think I have lost all interest in the app. Finding somebody sharing the same interest is now difficult and the design of the new app is such a drawback !
Ruined
A decent app has been ruined by a re design. It doesn’t work. Crashes. And a waste of time.
Fire who did the redesign
This sucks. I would buy a subscription once or twice a year while I was traveling and now that I’m about to again I signed on and none of this is user friendly. Paywall for regular public pics. Stats box is gone. None of it is intuitive and the search function (whole point) is shot to hell. It used to be a great app. I may even uninstall because it just doesn’t work in the first place.
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Terrible Upgrade
Since the upgrade you can no longer search for people by keywords etc. an error message constantly pops up at bottom of screen. When I contacted you with this and requested a refund for membership you simply referred me to Apple and never acknowledged or apologised for the issues. Take ownership for the problem, you have ruined what used to be a great app. No one I have spoken to likes the new site.
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Search by keyword & info in feed
The new version took away the search by keyword functionality. Bring it back.
I do not like my followers seeing changes I make to my profile. Having every bio edit or minor photo change broadcast to people in an activity feed feels unnecessary and exposed, especially compared to how quietly Recon used to handle account updates. It’s too Facebookish. Recon should add a global toggle to opt out of broadcast feed updates altogether (so followers aren't notified when one edits their bio/photos).
I do not like my followers seeing changes I make to my profile. Having every bio edit or minor photo change broadcast to people in an activity feed feels unnecessary and exposed, especially compared to how quietly Recon used to handle account updates. It’s too Facebookish. Recon should add a global toggle to opt out of broadcast feed updates altogether (so followers aren't notified when one edits their bio/photos).
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Unusable
This app is unusable because if the new update, super laggy, it signs you out for no reason and the message take a loong time to appear so you can’t really have a fluent conversation, at least add the option to reply to an specific message, that would be great
Do some customer research
I’ve been using Recon almost since its inception. This latest update is a disaster. Whoever provided the strategy failed. Do some customer research and build in some new features. It’s so sad to feel that this once beloved app may become redundant. :(
Self-destructed
I’ve been a paid member of this app for many years, but have stopped this since the latest refresh. Hard to believe that an app can go backwards in terms of usability and functionality, but Recon managed it in spectacular fashion. The new version demonstrates a complete lack of understand of what fetish users want. We don’t care who is located immediately within our vicinity. We want a quick way of knowing who is online and who shares our kicks in our neighbourhood or in the place we will be visiting soon. The new version is t consistent with these desires. The desktop version doesn’t even work on my computer! I submitted negative feedback and even asked for a partial refund on my subscription because the new product was not what I signed up for, but didn’t get an acknowledgment, let alone a useful response.
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How many ways are there to saw awful
This is what folks consider an upgrade? This is what was years in the making? Recon gets my thanks for supporting gay kink events. The best way to do that would be an App that works. Annm App worth paying for. It seems my paid subscription simply gives me a crappier version of the free app. Seriously? It’s like ordering a great piece of gear and when it arrives finding out it’s just cheap junk.
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New version is horrible
What is this version of Recon you’ve rolled out? It’s terrible: you can no longer filter by guys' body types; you can’t save preset filters (though that’s been an issue for a long time); and you can’t see when a guy was last online or when he created his profile. The old version was far more efficient. You’ve given us a site and an app that are awful to use. On top of that, there are tons of bugs. It’s unacceptable given the cost of the subscription. Please restore the old version—the one where we could save searches with filters.
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Guys, honestly… what have you done
Hugely disappointed with the new update (both app and website) I’ve been a long-time user, but this new rollout is a massive step backward. First, you removed the Travel Search. This was an essential feature for planning trips and connecting with guys who were going to be in the same area at the same time. I tried to overlook that loss, but the latest update made things worse. Now, you’ve also removed Keyword Searches. On a niche platform like Recon, keyword filtering is vital for finding compatible matches. Stripping away these core functional features while keeping the membership price exactly the same feels incredibly unfair to paying members. We are paying the same money for a significantly downgraded product. I’ve spoken to many other guys in the community about the new layout, and the consensus is entirely negative. Nobody is happy with these changes. Please listen to your user base and bring back the search tools that made this platform worth paying for.
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Laggy, buggy, unintuitive, poor mobile experience
The antiquated, clumsy UX of the old version was replaced with this duplicate of the web interface that’s a navigation nightmare. This is what you get when you don’t design for a mobile experience. The tab bar wastes space on “Feed” and “The Scene” - i’m not sure which one is more useless. And, the account/profile button in the tab bar? Really? How often does a guy look at his own profile? And then to make any changes, you’ve gotta hit the edit button or the gear menu; 2 buttons to make changes and more buttons afterwards. Of course, when you eventually find your way to the profile list, you have a nav bar at the top eating up real estate. The profile pix are bigger now (nice) but then you use tiny fonts with empty whitespace. And, you couldn’t figure out how to combine “Nearby” and “Explore”? Oh, and look, there’s a nice search/filter line eating up space on the top of the page? And what do you end up with? Wow, a few profile pix per page! Have you even looked at any of the other cruising apps? You really should credit the open source components in the app somewhere.
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