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This App Stinks!

The biggest thing I don't like is that notifications don't seem to work right. I'll get a push screen notification that somebody "liked" something but when I open the app there's no way to find out what it was. There are no notification highlight numbers like in Facebook or many other apps. I go to the menu in the upper right and find that there is an item listed there called "notifications" but when I click on it, it is always empty.

I see a thumbs up under other people's posts that I can click to "like" something, but it won't show me who else has liked it. And, there is no such thumbs up symbol under my own posts at all to view who has liked the post.

I'm fine without having to add "friends" like in most social networks as we are a unique community. However, it would be nice if users could have their own page or "wall" to post their stories, , their procedures, their stats and progress updates. You would think a bariatric surgery app would make it easy to do that and to track. It would be nice to go to other people's pages and just see that, if they choose to enter it. Or to see the macro stats of all users.

I think the app administrators would do well to make some upgrades and invest in a re-design.

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  • Totally feel you on that.. at first i was so lost too.. but i kinda got the hang of it.. cuz when i receive a notification to my phone i clicked from there and it will send me straight to that post...

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    If you go on the actual site on your phone you can see everything that's how I access it.. Not through the app. Hope that helps.

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Totally feel you on that.. at first i was so lost too.. but i kinda got the hang of it.. cuz when i receive a notification to my phone i clicked from there and it will send me straight to that post... other than that is me searching the timeline. Hope he reads it!


“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps

If you go on the actual site on your phone you can see everything that's how I access it.. Not through the app.

Hope that helps.

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