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Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2010–2016), in 11 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads since the beginning.
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Bounced between Swarm and Foursquare apps, blocking check-insUnreviewed
20102026- Forced to install separate Swarm app to keep using Foursquare2016-01-15
- Gets bounced between Swarm and Foursquare apps, which blocks check-ins and recommendations2014-08-06
- App nags users constantly to install the separate Swarm app2014-07-23
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Forced to install separate Swarm app to keep using Foursquare2016-01-15
- Last redesign made the app unusable for the commenter2015-04-15
- Can't find how many times they visited a place after ten minutes of searching2014-08-26
- Gets bounced between Swarm and Foursquare apps, which blocks check-ins and recommendations2014-08-06
- App nags users constantly to install the separate Swarm app2014-07-23
- Opening Foursquare to check in redirects to Swarm, and Swarm bounces back to Foursquare for tips2014-07-23
- Searching 'Baltimore' returns mostly results from outside Maryland, hard to get right results2014-05-08
- Mobile search results have tiny text and disable zooming, making them hard to read2012-11-29
- Similar icon color causes accidentally opening Facebook instead2012-07-24
- Photos no longer post to Facebook feed despite many troubleshooting attempts2012-06-26
- Recommendations are buried and can't be filtered by time, date or category2011-11-15
- Non-users get spammed with check-in messages by default, forcing them to block contacts2010-08-19