Comments on: With latest foursquare update your nearby friends are back

By: Chris Thompson

Chris Thompson — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:07:33 +0000

I’ve noticed that the mayor/badge splash is gone, but I haven’t seen any of the leaderboard issues you and other people are reporting. Must be an intermittent type of thing.

By: Jens

Jens — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:16:51 +0000

Unfortunately the new update brings some bugs. The major ones are: - no mayor/badge splash screen (like described here) - the ranking list is somehow crappy (I see now only the position #3, #4, #85, #141 and so on - but not from #1 up to the last position)

By: 5square

5square — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:02:12 +0000

This update seems just as unstable as all the rest. I see the new feature, but if I cant check in, and my friends cant check in, Im not sure what it matters if they are near by or far away.

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:58:05 +0000

Addendum: Never mind. The bugs are back, even after reinstalling and rebooting my phone (iPhone 4s). My check-in history disappeared, the app crashed twice this morning while I was trying to find a coffee shop nearby, and now the leaderboard only shows a handful of my friends rather than the usual list.

By: Caleb Hays

Caleb Hays — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 03:40:39 +0000

I miss having access to a worldwide map showing ALL my friends’ check-ins!

By: Benedict N. Corpuz

Benedict N. Corpuz — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:19:06 +0000

I love how the screen grab shows how I remember where I parked. 5th floor, 3rd row. Haha.

By: Tom Servo

Tom Servo — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:17:17 +0000

Hum. The Android version was updated with the last week, but the only feature we got was spam “updates” from local businesses.

By: Walter Elly

Walter Elly — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:23:26 +0000

Love it- especially the tweak they did to commenting by moving the post button out of the keyboard. I hope in a future release they tackle todos a bit more- right now I find it almost impossible to mark that I did something. I know the scenario for how I get the opportunity to mark I did something, but prior to 5 it was much simpler/straight-forward. I expect that there are probably more than a few OCD completionist types who are losing their mind over the current implementation .

By: Colleen Sullivan

Colleen Sullivan — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:04:19 +0000

Just updated the app on my iPhone, and it won’t load!! Ahh! I’ve tried everything, restarting won’t even work!

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:57:25 +0000

Yes! I just reinstalled the app and it seems that they fixed the biggest bug that had made the app all but unusable for the past two months: stability. I’m still getting the “cannot connect to the internet” message, but not as consistently as before. I’m also able to see my previous check ins, which I hadn’t realized how much I relied on until it was gone. I never really used the worldwide/near feature on the app previously. However, since they’ve turned the activity feed into a laundry list of EVERYTHING friends and brand pages had done, it seems like a good stop-gap measure to clean up the information. In the long run, I hope foursquare would consider other filtering options in the activity feed. I actually liked seeing what my non-local friends were up to, I just didn’t like seeing it mucked up with updates like “Brand X wrote 45 tips!” or “Bob became friends with Susan!”