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Android app update brings back points and adds a tip reporting option

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on October 10th, 2012

Foursquare released an update to their Android app overnight, bringing it to version 2012.10.09.

The update adds a new feature that’s currently exclusive to the Android app: tip reporting. A new button on the tip detail screen lets you report tips to foursquare that are spam, offensive or no longer relevant. Users have been asking for this ability for a long time, since reporting them via Twitter to @4sqSupport is laborious and time-consuming. Hopefully this feature will make its way to the other apps and website in the near future.

In this version, points are back on the post check-in screen after disappearing a few versions ago. The mini-leaderboard showing your position relative to your nearest friends (in terms of points) is also back.

The change log lists improvements to the photo sorting on venue pages, but (as far as I can tell) this has actually been occurring across all the foursquare apps for the past few weeks. A new algorithm is in place that shows more relevant photos first instead of defaulting to friends’ photos above the most recent photos. It also strives to eliminate duplicate images.

Other changes include a quick save option in the activity feed and bolded friend mentions in check-ins. The update is available for free in the Google Play store.

What do you think of the update?

/Thanks to Rafael Tabosa for the screenshot!

  • http://www.jones.in/ Christopher

    Tip reporting is a HUGE addition. I hope they bring that to the web and iPhone versions very soon.

  • https://www.foursquare.com/user/3485579 ‘Sal

    Finally! The much needed “tip reporting!” :)

  • https://www.foursquare.com/user/3359816 Neil Turner

    Yay for tip reporting! Hope this makes it to iOS and the web soon.

  • http://www.almediapage.info/ Tom Servo

    These changes are AWESOME and AWESOME.

  • https://www.foursquare.com/user/3716712 Wendy Kwan

    YES. FINALLY. Love the re-addition of the points to the check-in page too, because sometimes I exit so quickly, I don’t quite catch how many points I actually received. Good job, Foursquare!

    • http://www.almediapage.info/ Tom Servo

      I do most of my checkins now through third party apps — Simple Checkin and the Waze navigation app — so being able to go back and see why I mysteriously earned 9 points for a checkin is very very handy. None of the third party apps that I’m aware of tell you what the points are for.

  • https://www.foursquare.com/user/14734135 Joanne Ray

    The tip reporting is fantastic – long overdue. I think there needs to be a “merge/duplicate tip” reporting option; a lot of users in my area will leave the same or similar tips at duplicate venues, so the tip appears twice once venues are merged.

  • http://www.saltedlolly.com Olly

    I just discovered that the tip reporting feature is now working in the iOS app to. :)

  • http://www.saltedlolly.com Olly

    Just a heads up – I just discovered that the tip reporting feature is now working in the iOS to. Go into a tips individual page in the iOS app and you will see the report link at the bottom, much like in the Android app. :)

  • https://www.foursquare.com/user/2733777 Michael Rosen

    I still wish you’d go back to showing who’s at a venue right away after checking in. I don’t like that I have to click on the venue again after checking in.

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