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For me, the Foursquare of today is a more accurate, more up-to-date Yelp. I find it more useful now than when it was first released as a check-in app. Not all p
by morley 7y ago
For me, the Foursquare of today is a more accurate, more up-to-date Yelp. I find it more useful now than when it was first released as a check-in app. Not all pivots are net negatives.
- duxup 7y agoHumm that sounds pretty good. Not the thing I remember liking about it but certainly I could go for something beyond the noise of Yelp with all the "I had a bad time this one time" and "This place isn't as good as that place that is 3x as expensive" or the worst of "I think Pizza Hut is the peak of cuisine but I ended up at this french place and it sucked!" It seems all services sort of devolve into that noise.
- srj 7y agoI don't understand why they ever had to be different. Can't you have a rich set of place information, and still have check-ins, mayorships, and all? I was an avid foursquare user when it first came out. Going to a place your friends hadn't been felt like you were an explorer charting new territory. I used it for years until check-ins were split off. Swarm felt like it was built to be neglected. Like Netflix with Qwikster, they wanted to focus on another area of their business to secure their future and the existing users were a distraction/liability. But given that either pursuit is nothing without engagement, and they had more location-based engagement than anybody, I don't understand the decision making in throwing all that away.