Help desk is not helpful
If I inadvertently check in someplace, I can delete some, but not all. I reached out to the helpdesk and they gave me some canned response that was not helpful! App overall is fine for remembering when I was someplace last.
I don’t like the new virgin
We want the old virgin back
Hard to check into what you missed!
Duh!
New interface is 👎🏻
New interface sucks
Not Easier. Not Faster.
Why go to the trouble of designing the app “from the ground up” only to make it worse AND not add the dark mode it has needed THIS ENTIRE TIME?
UPDATE: Yeah, sorry, this is an uninstall from me, dawg. I have a superior version on an older phone I haven’t gotten rid of, so I guess I’ll keep using that sometimes, I guess. At least orange was vaguely bee-themed.
But yeah, the ONLY improvement the new version of Swarm enjoys over the one that has existed for almost (over?) a decade is the reintroduction of OG Foursquare features—which, of course, should never have been spun off into a separate app to begin with. Otherwise the whole thing is just a worse experience. It often freezes or doesn’t load, and if it does, the “Change Location” menu mistakes scrolls for taps about 55% of the time. As an OG Foursquare die-hard, this is unbelievably heartbreaking, and I didn’t need one more fresh, new reminder that everything is awful now and there is no refuge from it anywhere.
UPDATE, JULY 21, 2026. Got a new phone and copied the whole phone over that had the last version that was almost usable. Damn app replaced itself with whatever this insane new version is. So there’s finally dark mode… in 2026… and the app is technically responsive, which is an improvement over the previously most recent version i suffered… but the interface is bad. The map is finally usable but i’m not sure why i would need that. If there’s a list of venues, i can’t find it.
Just do it right. OG, pre-Swarm Foursquare. Call it whatever dumb thing you want. Just make it responsive, with light text on a dark background. Make it user-friendly, with a list of nearby venues and portraits of each venue’s mayor so i’m not clicking and scrolling for twenty minutes just to see what needs a mayor. Please. My old phone won’t last much longer.
UPDATE: Yeah, sorry, this is an uninstall from me, dawg. I have a superior version on an older phone I haven’t gotten rid of, so I guess I’ll keep using that sometimes, I guess. At least orange was vaguely bee-themed.
But yeah, the ONLY improvement the new version of Swarm enjoys over the one that has existed for almost (over?) a decade is the reintroduction of OG Foursquare features—which, of course, should never have been spun off into a separate app to begin with. Otherwise the whole thing is just a worse experience. It often freezes or doesn’t load, and if it does, the “Change Location” menu mistakes scrolls for taps about 55% of the time. As an OG Foursquare die-hard, this is unbelievably heartbreaking, and I didn’t need one more fresh, new reminder that everything is awful now and there is no refuge from it anywhere.
UPDATE, JULY 21, 2026. Got a new phone and copied the whole phone over that had the last version that was almost usable. Damn app replaced itself with whatever this insane new version is. So there’s finally dark mode… in 2026… and the app is technically responsive, which is an improvement over the previously most recent version i suffered… but the interface is bad. The map is finally usable but i’m not sure why i would need that. If there’s a list of venues, i can’t find it.
Just do it right. OG, pre-Swarm Foursquare. Call it whatever dumb thing you want. Just make it responsive, with light text on a dark background. Make it user-friendly, with a list of nearby venues and portraits of each venue’s mayor so i’m not clicking and scrolling for twenty minutes just to see what needs a mayor. Please. My old phone won’t last much longer.
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